Six months ago, I built a portfolio to keep track of everyone's July Idea Competition picks and thought now is as good of a time as any to give a shoutout to the top picks so far.

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With no further ado:

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3-way tie for 5th - up roughly 25% since July 20th, 2022:

4th place - up 31%:

3rd place - up 47%:

2nd place - up 65%:

1st place - up 120%:

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Congrats to everyone on the leaderboard, and thank you to everybody for their pitches and excellent insights! 🙏

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Overall, the portfolio is up 4.4% since 7/20/22, beating the S&P 500 Index's Total Return of 1.7% over the same time.

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I apologize if I missed anyone or did something odd (I am pretty confident I may have done just that).

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Great job, everybody -- looking forward to seeing how things sit here in another six months.