This week, Zacks Chief Equity Strategist and Economist John Blank, PhD discusses:

• Portfolio management, and an approach to gain insights for those who want to build and maintain single-stock portfolios. John illustrates this analysis using top stocks in three key market sectors—Retail-Wholesale, Consumer Discretionary, and Consumer Staples.

• John uses three criteria to find and to analyze the 6 top stocks in each sector: First, market capitalization; second, the largest one-month change in F1 estimates; and finally, the maximum number of analysts following the stock. By comparing metrics for stocks using various criteria, and also looking at differing weights for these 6 top stocks in a portfolio, he demonstrates how insights can be revealed to optimize performance, reduce risk, and more.

• Using this “top stock” criteria, John examines how these 6 stocks perform as a portfolio, with the goal of gaining insights as to their variation, returns, and correlations. This analysis includes major, well-respected stocks, from Walmart (WMT) to Amazon (AMZN), Target (TGT to Dollar General (DG), and Procter & Gamble (PG) to Coca Cola (KO). Don’t miss this intriguing and useful webinar.