Top Names, 11/26/2025

Updating our top names performance and presenting this week's top ten names.

Happy Thanksgiving

Since U.S. markets are closed for Thanksgiving tomorrow, I’m posting this week’s top ten names today. In the spirit of the holiday, I’d like to thank you for subscribing. We’ll start as usual by recapping our basic strategy.

Our Basic Strategy

Our basic strategy is to buy equal dollar amounts of the Portfolio Armor web app’s top ten names, put trailing stops of ~20% on them, and replace them with names from the current week’s top ten when we get stopped out of a position.

Another Use For Our Top Names

We also use our top names in options trades, such as this one we exited last week:

• 4-leg combo on Argan (AGX).
  Entered at a net debit of $0.45 on 9/11/2025; exited the put spread at a net debit of $0.30 on 11/12/2025, and exited the call spread at a net credit of $8.00 on 11/19/2025 (bought for $0.45, sold for $7.70).
  Profit: 1,611% on premium outlay (132% on max risk).

A Top Names Performance Update

Before we get to this week’s top ten names, let’s look at the final, 6-month performance of our top ten names from 5/22/2025.

Over the next 6 months, our top ten names from May 22nd returned +33.11%, versus +13.11% for the SPDR S&P 500 Trust ETF (SPY 0.23%↑).

So far, we have 6-month returns for 126 weekly top names cohorts since we started this Substack at the end of December, 2022.

[Skipping ahead so this post doesn’t exceed email length—you can see the top names returns for every week here]

And as you can see above, our top names have averaged returns of 20% over the next six months, versus SPY’s average of 10.06%. You can see an interactive version of the table above here, where you can click on each date and see a chart showing each of the holdings that week.

This Week’s Top Names

Below are Portfolio Armor’s current top ten names as of Wednesday’s close.