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The Underappreciated Value Of Corporate Spin-Offs
Spin-offs don’t just perform – they outperform. The Bloomberg U.S. Spin-Off Index (BNSPIN) was up 23% in 2025, outperforming the S&P 500’s 17% gain, with 22 major spin-offs exceeding $1 billion in market value. Marty Fridson explains the dynamics behind this investing trend.
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All-In On Gold… Again
The global shift from U.S. Treasuries to gold began roughly 10 years ago, and accelerated after the U.S. seized Russia’s reserves after its war with Ukraine. As gold resumes its role as the world’s preferred reserve asset, history suggests it has much further to run… and its price per ounce will rise.
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Some Good Advice From 2025
Today, we offer three examples of Daily Journals that provided readers with real actionable advice that has provided both short- and long-term gains for those who followed it.
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High Yield Precious Metals
Today, in our penultimate installment of “12 Days,” analyst Ross Hendricks shares with readers some lessons learned from his experience overseeing Porter & Co.’s Trading Club… One takeaway: trading options is a smart way to generate income and boost overall returns, regardless of what the market does.
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The Great Portfolio Experiment
The performance of Porter’s Permanent Portfolio has been exceptional, performing exactly as it was designed to… and better that it was expected to. Great returns – with far lower volatility than the broader market. See what goes into it and why it works.
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Don’t Fight City Hall
Sometimes, the quality of an asset isn’t enough. In the energy markets, geography is destiny – and in 2025, we learned that even a billion barrels of oil can’t always beat a hostile local government.
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Never Sell A Great Business
Today, we take some lessons from two mistakes we made in our Complete Investor publication – either selling a great business too soon, or not buying it soon enough.
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Managing Risk, Earning Fortunes
Most people think of biotech as speculative – a domain of lottery tickets and roulette-type wagers on FDA decisions. But real success here is different than that. The work lies in telling the difference between potential winners and a roll of the dice. Tech Investor editor Erez Kalir explains.
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Porter’s 3X Screen Beats The Market
This giant, household name of a company was trading at a rare discount to its intrinsic value. Despite generating extraordinary levels of free cash flow, maintaining global search dominance, and aggressively buying back stock, the market had mispriced it. We did not. Shares soared 81% since then!
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The Glamorous World Of Ethanol
Kicking off Porter & Co.’s 12 Days Of Christmas series, Distressed Investing senior analyst Marty Fridson shares a big win on both the distressed bonds and distressed equities of a midwest ethanol producer, following Marty’s “topping off” strategy.