Top Patent Approvals 2010-2017
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About
Equal‑weight portfolio of ~25 companies that consistently earned the most patent approvals in 2010–2017, aiming to capture durable innovators. Rebalanced quarterly; heavy tilt to big tech and chip makers, plus select industrial, consumer, and healthcare names.
Each year from 2010–2017, companies are scored by how many patents they got approved; scores are turned into 0–100 percentiles and then averaged. The top 25 long‑term patent leaders are held equally and reset every 3 months. The basket skews to big tech and chip makers (IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Intel, Taiwan Semiconductor, Qualcomm), with some industrials (GE, Boeing, Honeywell) and consumer/healthcare (Procter & Gamble, Nike, Medtronic).
Out-of-sample edge: 15.65% annualized return vs 14.01% for the S&P, with similar risk-adjusted Sharpe (~0.79) but higher drawdown (~29.5% vs 22%). Equal-weight, quarterly rebalance focused on durable tech/semiconductor leaders.
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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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 650.58% | 14.13% | -0.15% | 0.4% | 0.86 | |
| 857.3% | 15.96% | -1.7% | 0.67% | 0.83 |
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$95,730.34Regulatory Fees
$4.06
Total Slippage
$23.20
Invest in this strategy
OOS Start Date
Feb 13, 2022
Trading Setting
Quarterly
Type
Stocks
Category
Innovation, patents, equal-weight, large-cap tech, semiconductors, global adrs, quarterly rebalance
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