12 companies matchUpdated with our data, free, no account
Low volatility defensives
Companies that move less than the market and pay you to wait. The holdings that let you sleep, and let you hold everything else.
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Beta across the top 12 matches
Look at the spread, not the ranking. If the bars are all the same length, the screen is arbitrary: one point of beta separates a company that made the list from one that did not, and the cut is doing more work than the data supports. A long tail means the top few are genuinely exceptional and the rest merely qualified.
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What this screen is really buying
Healthcare
5
Consumer
4
Communications
1
Energy
1
Utilities
1
The matches are spread across sectors, which means the screen is selecting on the characteristic it claims to and not accidentally on an industry.
