Over the past decade, we have probably committed the best part of half a million words to covering our stock screens.
That’s a little longer than the 19th century epic novel that 2024’s opening screen is named after. But like the Charles Dickens masterpiece, our Great Expectations screen has chartered its own coming-of-age story, even if its often-bumpy trajectory has swung from early glory to latter-day mediocrity.
During its first two years of life, the screen’s selections doubled in value, before doubling again over the next four years and peaking in mid-2021 at an all-time total return of 532 per cent. At the time, that was equivalent to a compound annual growth rate of 19.2 per cent.