One stat shows how hard it is to pick market-beating stocks 🎲

Most S&P 500 stocks underperform the index

Picking winners in the stock market is not easy. (Source: Getty Images)

Picking stocks in an attempt to beat market averages is an incredibly challenging and sometimes money-losing effort. In fact, most professional stock pickers aren’t able to do this on a consistent basis.¹

One of the reasons for this is that most stocks don’t deliver above-average retur…