Insider Monkey's July quality picks trail the S&P 500 by 1.3 points after 3 days

3 Days Later — Jul 13, 2026

How are Insider Monkey's best quality stocks performing?

After three days, Insider Monkey's quality stock selections are down 1.6% on average, lagging the S&P 500's 0.3% decline by 1.3 percentage points. The article, published July 10th, highlighted nine stocks favored by Wall Street analysts for quality characteristics.

Only one of the two tracked picks is outperforming the broader market at this early stage. PepsiCo leads with a 0.5% gain, the sole positive return among the holdings.

Three days is too brief to draw meaningful conclusions about stock-picking skill. Short-term volatility routinely obscures longer-term performance patterns, and these early returns reflect market noise more than the fundamental quality thesis the picks were selected to represent.