Stock Management LLC

Stock Management LLC provides discretionary portfolio management and investment supervisory services to a mix of individual clients and institutional accounts, including pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations and corporations. The firm charges percentage-of-assets advisory fees, does not participate in wrap programs, and manages roughly $142 million in client assets.

The firm’s investment approach is grounded in fundamental analysis using Value Line data, with a screening process that favors companies meeting a minimum financial-strength rating and a candidate list used to select exchange-listed stocks, ETFs, no-load mutual funds and bonds. Portfolios are constructed to target client-specific stock/fixed-income allocations, employ diversification and bond ladders to manage interest-rate risk, and follow explicit sell rules (including percentage gain/loss triggers and Value Line downgrades); holdings are generally intended to be held for at least a year.

Noteworthy characteristics relative to peers include a long track record (in operation since 1984) and an unusually high client-to-advisor ratio (more than 200 clients per advisor), as well as operational billing practices that exclude bonds from billable assets and count only half of mutual fund holdings for fee calculations. The firm also discloses operational relationships with major custodians for account-management tools and publicly reported a 2022 regulatory action involving an advisory representative’s unauthorized access to a client account that resulted in a 30‑day suspension and no client loss.