Fundamental Favorites in Large Cap Stocks

Introduction
Our Fundamental Favorites and the Three Pillars
Fundamental Scarcity
Fundamental Favorites’ Characteristics
Drivers of Greater Excess Returns
Conclusions: A Small but Privileged Pond

Introduction

A year ago, we published the white paper Batter Up! More from Our Core: Optimizing Our Top Ranked Stocks to Amplify Efficiency & Performance in which we introduced our Fundamental Favorites for the Small & Mid Cap universe. In the paper we explain that to qualify as a Fundamental Favorite, a stock has to be ranked in the top 10 stocks for that month and have the best (5) quintile score for each of the Three Pillars of Valuation, Balance Sheet Quality and Earnings Quality. We found that the Fundamental Favorites in the Small & Mid Cap space generate over 50% higher excess returns on average than the Kailash Capital Research, LLC (Kailash) Core Small & Mid Cap Portfolio created from the top 25 ranked stocks each month in the Kailash Ranking Tool. The primary mechanism that drives the excess returns of our Small & Mid Cap Fundamental Favorites group is a meaningful improvement in batting averages over the already very strong batting averages in the Core Small & Mid Cap Portfolio. While we see a bit more dispersion in the winners and losers (i.e., when compared to the Core Small & Mid Cap Portfolio, the winners win by more and the losers lose by more), the payoff structure is highly favorable as the improvement among the winners is nearly three times greater than the deterioration in underperformers’ relative performance. Combining the favorable asymmetrical payoff structure of the Small & Mid Cap Fundamental Favorites with the higher batting averages, and you have among the most potent and concise Small & Mid Cap stock shopping lists ever created by Kailash Capital Research, LLC .

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Clients with a Large Cap mandate have asked if there is a corresponding group of Fundamental Favorites for the R1000 space that also generates excess returns compared to both the R1000 index and the Kailash Core Large Cap (R1000) Portfolio created from the top 75 ranked stocks each month in the Kailash Large Cap Ranking Tool. This white paper will apply the same methodology and analysis to the Russell 1000 universe as we had previously done for the Small & Mid Cap universe. Because the Large Cap Fundamental Favorites work similarly well and share other likenesses with the Small & Mid Cap Fundamental Favorites and because we performed the same analyses to generate the same charts, many parts of this paper will look familiar to clients who read the original white paper last year.

In summary: We believe that clients should strongly consider investing in our Fundamental Favorites, which are Top 10 stocks in our Ranking Tool that also had top quintile scores (i.e., Quintile 5) in each of the Three Pillars of Valuation, Balance Sheet Quality and Earnings Quality. Owning these stocks is compelling as these Fundamental Favorites added over 50% to the Kailash Core Large Cap Portfolio’s historical annual excess return, improving it from an already strong +580bps per year to +910bps per year. Therefore, we believe this concentrated list of stocks is deserving of your attention.

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