Insights: Barron’s 400 Index

Indexes & Model Portfolios

How the Barron’s 400 reveals a broader opportunity emerging beneath today’s concentrated market leadership. For much of the period following...

July 30, 2026

Indexes & Model Portfolios

For much of the past decade, U.S. equity returns have been increasingly concentrated in a relatively small group of large...

June 11, 2026

U.S. Equities

Through February 10, 2026, the divergence between the two versions of the Barron’s 400 Index has become difficult to ignore....

February 12, 2026

Indexes & Model Portfolios

Over the past three decades, mid-cap stocks have quietly outperformed their large- and small-cap counterparts. From 1995 to 2025, the...

September 19, 2025

Indexes & Model Portfolios

Eighteen years ago this week, the Barron’s 400 Index (B400) was introduced on the cover of Barron’s magazine with a...

September 2, 2025

Indexes & Model Portfolios

We reported recently on the stellar performance of the MarketGrader Indexes in 2024, when a majority of them beat their...

January 24, 2025

Global Equities

MarketGrader’s stock selection methodology shone in 2023, as 75% of our indexes outperformed their benchmarks in what turned out to...

January 16, 2024

Indexes & Model Portfolios

The Barron’s 400 Index (B400) started the week with a newly reconstituted roster of constituents following its most recent rebalance,...

September 19, 2022

Indexes & Model Portfolios

While some parts of the U.S. market still look expensive, the recent selloff has created buying opportunities among overlooked names....

May 11, 2022

Indexes & Model Portfolios

The Barron’s 400 Index (B400), a collaboration between MarketGrader and Barron’s, which seeks to track the most fundamentally sound companies...

March 22, 2022