An allocation percentage is the percentage of your investment portfolio that goes toward a specific company. (i.e. If you have $100,000 total to invest, and you’re initiating a 1.3% allocation towards “Company A”, then you are investing $1,300 in “Company A’s” stock.
Here is a formula to follow:
Allocation Percentage x Total Investment = Investment allocation
.013, or 1.3% x $100,000 = $1,300
Some of our premium portfolio services recommend buying all of the stocks within the service in equal amounts - which means each recommendation is equal-weighted.
Let's say we have a portfolio that will have 40 recommendations over the course of a year. This would mean each recommendation has a 2.5% allocation.
In this example, while there will be 40 total recommendations, that doesn't necessarily mean 40 unique stocks. Some of our picks will include re-recommendations. If a stock is recommended twice, that means we're investing 5% of our initial capital into that company (and the rare triple recommendation is 7.5%).
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