Investing.com -- As the S&P 500 closes in on the once-breached 6,000 level, following its best May since the dot-com bubble in the late ’90s, it’s safe to say the first half of 2025 has brought some of the best opportunities to profit in the stock market in a very long time.
Hard to believe that less than two months ago, the S&P 500 was trading below 5,000—up a whopping 18% since. Call it the ‘TACO’ (Trump Always Chickens Out) trade or a negotiation tactic from Trump’s side; the fact is, those who seized the chance to buy well-positioned names couldn’t be happier right now.
In fact, in this market-rich environment, those following our AI’s monthly updated list of stock picks— for less than $10 a month —just hit a fantastic milestone: they crossed the 100% gains mark (since launch in November 2023), outperforming the S&P 500 by a striking 58.9% since then .
These phenomenal gains were buoyed by early calls on names such as:
- NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA ) rallied 226.7% while within strategy from November 2023 to December 2024
- Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ: SMCI ) rallied 185.6% in 6 months
- MicroStrategy Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR ) gained 94.9% in 6 months
Among several others.
(*These are real-world gains, not backtested or theoretical results.)
Now, as the S&P 500 looks to take a new shot at all-time highs, make sure that you’re holding the most fundamentally solid, growth-prone stocks by checking out our list of picks for June, available for InvestingPro members since the first of the month .
Here are a couple of names from the AI-curated list, along with the reasoning behind those picks:
- Dollar General (NYSE: DG ): +15.75% in the first three sessions of June ALONE.
Here’s why it’s a great pick for June:
- Advance Auto Parts (NYSE: AAP ): 8.43% in the first three sessions of June ALONE.
Here’s why it’s a great pick for June:
Based on the same principles that led it to pick these names for June, our AI has several other picks ready to rally for the month ahead. Join now for a meager less than $10 a month and jump to the list here .
By the way, our AI doesn’t only pick stocks in the US. In fact, since the start of the year, it has applied the same investment-grade analysis to markets worldwide, with game-changing calls on picks such as:
- Thyssenkrupp (OTC: TYEKF ) AG O.N. (ETR: TKAG ) (Germany): +140.7% while within the strategy
- ABL Bio (KQ: 298380 ) (South Korea): +169.90% YTD
- Indra Sistemas (OTC: ISMAY ) (Spain): +116.74% YTD
- Colab Cloud Platforms Ltd (BO: COLA ) (India): +111.8% while within the strategy
These picks have led to the following returns for the composed portfolios (strategies) since launch in January:
- Industrial Champions Germany up 41.94% YTD, beating benchmark by 21.41%
- Spanish Market Leaders up 32.52%, beating benchmark by 10.92%
- Best Brazilian Stocks is up 24.91%, beating benchmark by 11.25%
- Korean Market Leaders is up 25.36% YTD, beating the benchmark by 9.91%
Here’s a bit more info on how our AI actually works:
At the start of each month, our AI refreshes each strategy with up to 20 stock picks. These selections are based on a blend of more than 150 well-established financial models compiled by our machine learning model on over 15 years of financial data worldwide.
Some stocks are added, others stay on, and a few are dropped, reflecting how the AI evaluates their medium-term growth potential.
Performance is then tracked using equal weighting across all the stocks in the strategy. You don’t have to mirror that weighting exactly, but it gives a clear picture of how effective the model is at identifying opportunity across the board.
At the end of the day, stock picking is still a game of probabilities. But the key isn’t just finding winners — it’s knowing when to move on from the ones that no longer stack up.
Since launch, the model has done just that — delivering more than a few standout success stories along the way.
As a matter of fact, our backtest suggests that going the long run is the surest path to long-term wealth generation. Check out the 10-year outperformance of Tech Titans over the S&P 500 below:
This means a $100K principal in our strategy would have turned into an eye-popping $1,348,039 by now.
And with the monthly update for June out already, now would be the perfect time to subscribe to InvestingPro andgive yourself the upper hand before it’s too late .