Does Michael Farr, CEO and founder of Farr, Miller & Washington, offer good stock picks via his annual CNBC articles identifying the best 10 stocks for the next year? To investigate, we take his picks for 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, calculate the associated annual total returns for each stock and compute the equal-weighted average return for the 10 stocks for each year. We use SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) as a benchmark for these averages. Using year-end dividend-adjusted stock prices for the specified stocks-years, we find that:
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