THE TOP FIVE PICKS

If you could only invest in five stocks this year, what would they be?

If you had invested $2000 into each of the five stocks we picked for 2020 your returns would have been 76% in Nickel Mines, 11.5% in Uniti Group, 52% in Elders, 42% in City Chic Collective and -0.5% for Macquarie. So you would now have $13,620 – a 36.2% windfall at the time of writing.

Looking to 2021, we have singled out five stocks for your to consider. The list is based on Bell Potter’s research, looking at stocks with expected share price growth and forecast earnings growth, which are spread across different areas, including technology, mining, contactless payments and consumer staples. Our top five are Life360, Rhipe, Nickel Mines, Afterpay and Inghams.