Defensive Stocks Based on Artificial Intelligence: Returns up to 81.44% in 1 Year

Defensive Stocks

This Conservative Stock forecast is part of the Risk-Conscious Package, as one of I Know First’s quantitative investment solutions. We determine our best defensive stocks by screening our database daily for lower volatility stocks that are less risky. The full Risk-Conscious Package includes a daily forecast for a total of 40 stocks divided into four main categories:

    • Top 10 Conservative stocks for the long position
    • Top 10 Conservative stocks for the short position
    • Top 10 Aggressive stocks for the long position
    • Top 10 Aggressive stocks for the short position

Risk Conscious stocks
Package Name: Risk-Conscious – Conservative Stock Forecast
Recommended Positions: Long
Forecast Length: 1 Year (06/19/2018 – 06/19/2019)
I Know First Average: 7.45%
Defensive Stocks

During the 1 Year forecasted period several picks in the Risk-Conscious – Conservative Stock Forecast Package saw significant returns. The algorithm had correctly predicted 6 out 10 returns of the defensive stocks. The prediction with the highest return was BLL, at 81.44%. Further notable returns came from BXMT and EMLP at 12.10% and 9.61%, respectively. The Risk-Conscious – Conservative Stock Forecast package had an overall average return of 7.45%, providing investors with a premium of 1.94% over the S&P 500’s return of 5.51%.

Ball Corporation (BLL) supplies metal packaging products to the beverage, food, personal care, and household industries worldwide. It operates in four segments: Metal Beverage Packaging, Americas and Asia; Metal Beverage Packaging, Europe; Metal Food and Household Products Packaging; and Aerospace and Technologies. The Metal Beverage Packaging, Americas and Asia segment manufactures and sells metal beverage containers to fillers of carbonated soft drinks, beer, energy drinks, and other beverages. The Metal Beverage Packaging, Europe segment manufactures and sells metal beverage containers and ends for producers of carbonated soft drinks, beer, energy drinks, and other beverages. The Metal Food and Household Products Packaging segment offers steel food, aerosol, paint, and general line and decorative specialty containers, as well as extruded aluminum beverage and aerosol containers, and aluminum slugs. The Aerospace and Technologies segment designs, develops, and manufactures aerospace systems, including spacecraft, instruments and sensors, radio frequency systems and components, data exploitation solutions, and aerospace technologies and products for civil, commercial, and national security aerospace markets. It is also involved in the design, manufacture, and testing of satellites, remote sensors, and ground station control hardware and software, as well as provides related services, such as launch vehicle integration and satellite operations. In addition, this segment provides target identification, warning, and attitude control systems and components; cryogenic systems for reactant storage, and associated sensor cooling devices; star trackers; and fast-steering mirrors, as well as technical services and products to government agencies, prime contractors, and commercial organizations for various information warfare, electronic warfare, avionics, intelligence, training, and space system needs. The company was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado.

Algorithmic traders utilize these daily forecasts by the I Know First market prediction system as a tool to enhance portfolio performance, verify their own analysis and act on market opportunities faster. This forecast was sent to current I Know First subscribers.

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Algorithmic Stock Forecast: The table on the left is a stock forecast produced by I Know First’s algorithm. Each day, subscribers receive forecasts for six different time horizons. Note that the top 10 stocks in the 1-month forecast may be different than those in the 1-year forecast. In the included table, only the relevant stocks have been included. The boxes are arranged according to their respective signal and predictability values (see below for detailed definitions). A green box represents a positive forecast, suggesting a long position, while a red represents a negative forecast, suggesting a short position.

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