Top Patent Approvals 2010-2017
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About
An equal-weight basket of companies that consistently earned lots of U.S. patents in 2010–2017—aiming to capture steady innovators—rebalanced every quarter. Heavy tilt to semiconductors, hardware, industrials, and enterprise software.
It picks companies that received many U.S. patent approvals in 2010–2017. Each year, firms are ranked by patent count; rankings are turned into percentiles and averaged across the 8 years. The top scorers are held in equal amounts. Every 3 months, it resets each holding back to equal size.
Out-of-sample: ~24.8% annual return vs SPY’s ~23.6%, with a Calmar ~1.05. An equal-weight, patent-driven tilt to durable innovators (tech, semis, industrials) rebalanced quarterly offers higher upside with controlled downside versus the S&P 500.
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Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
| Alpha | Beta | R2 | R | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1.12 | 0.88 | 0.94 |
Performance Metrics
| Cumulative Return | Annualized Return | Trailing 1M Return | Trailing 3M Return | Sharpe Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 634.87% | 13.93% | -1.77% | 0.2% | 0.85 | |
| 821.62% | 15.63% | -5.97% | 0.89% | 0.82 |
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$92,162.25Regulatory Fees
$4.06
Total Slippage
$23.20
Invest in this strategy
OOS Start Date
Mar 24, 2023
Trading Setting
Quarterly
Type
Stocks
Category
Equities, innovation, patents, equal-weight, rules-based, global, quarterly rebalance, multi-sector
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 24 assets in total
Ticker
Type
AAPL
Apple Inc.
Stocks
AMAT
Applied Materials Inc
Stocks
AVGO
Broadcom Inc. Common Stock
Stocks
BA
Boeing Company
Stocks
BKR
Baker Hughes Company
Stocks
GE
GE Aerospace
Stocks
HMC
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. American Depositary Share, each representing three (3) shares of Common Stock
Stocks
HON
Honeywell International, Inc.
Stocks
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation
Stocks
INTC
Intel Corp
Stocks