- 24 stocks meet the Monsters of Momentum criteria this year.
- Total return from the screen of 283 per cent over the past 10 years compared with 58 per cent from the FTSE All-Share.
- 23 per cent over the past 12 months versus negative 13 per cent from the index.
It's an exciting time for this column. The first of the stock screens I devised specifically for our screening pages is turning 10 years old.
In reality, the periods over which people choose to assess performance are somewhat arbitrary. What’s more, any inferences are overshadowed by the fact that 'past performance is no guide to future returns'. But a decade still feels significant and hopefully not just as a testament to the staying power of this column’s author – it takes a special kind of nerd.