“The Motley Fool exists to let the world invest better,” Hinmon told ETF Trends in a call. “We make our foolish way of investing, brought by the Motley Fool Index, to the masses. It is a way for investors of all shapes and sizes to easily access a package of Motley Fool’s picks.”
Current top holdings include Apple (NasdaqGS: AAPL) 8.1%, Alphabet (NasdaqGS: GOOGL) 7.5%, Microsoft (NasdaqGS: MSFT) 6.6%, Amazon.com (NasdaqGS: AMN) 6.2% and Facebook (NasdaqGS: FB) 5.0%.
“Companies in the Fool 100 tend to have higher profit margins and higher returns on equity and assets than the collection of stocks in the S&P 500. I think this is one factor that speaks to the high quality of these business. Having said that, the stocks in the Fool 100 also tend to carry higher valuations. That’s also one factor that speaks to evidence of the quality of these business, but it makes this a more growth-oriented, rather than value-oriented, collection of stocks,” Tim Hanson, the creator of the Fool 100 Index, said on The Motley Fool.
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