Performance Charts

We developed the Fidelity Select Fundranker system in early 2003 using data from December 29, 1995, forward. The system uses one-, three-, six-, and 12-month returns, so we ranked the Select funds as of December 31, 1996, for the first time, and started Fundranker’s theoretical Top Eight Model Portfolio on Fundranker’s first hypothetical exchange date, January 2, 1997, with $24,000 ($3,000 in each of the eight funds).

To track the performance of the Top Eight Model Portfolio, on each Fundranker exchange date, we divide the total value of the eight funds from the previous month equally into the eight funds for the new month. Although this cannot be done in real life, it does allow a pure measure of performance of an equally weighted portfolio of eight funds. If you rebalance your eight funds periodically, your portfolio’s performance should approximate this pure measure of performance.

For comparison, we also track performance of the Nasdaq Composite Index (as measured by Fidelity’s Nasdaq Composite Index Fund) and the S&P 500 Index (as measured by Fidelity’s Spartan 500 Index - Investor Class Fund) with theoretical portfolios. We started the S&P 500 Index tracking portfolio with $24,000 on January 2, 1997, similarly to the Top Eight Model Portfolio. We started the Nasdaq Composite Index tracking portfolio on September 30, 2003, as that is the month that Fidelity’s Nasdaq Composite Index Fund began operations, with a value of $35,431.26, equal to the value of the S&P 500 tracking portfolio on September 30, 2003.

Note that our Top Eight Model Portfolio, our Nasdaq Composite Index tracking portfolio, and our S&P 500 Index tracking portfolio reflect total return; that is, they include dividends. Performance shown for our Nasdaq Composite Index and S&P 500 Index tracking portfolios will differ slightly from performance of the indexes themselves, which only reflect prices of their underlying stocks and do not account for dividends.

For lifetime (from 1/2/1997), 10-year, 5-year, 3-year, and 1-year comparisons of the tracking portfolios, click on the links below. Since the Nasdaq Composite Index tracking portfolio was started as of September 30, 2003, it currently is shown only on the 5-year, 3-year, and 1-year charts.

Lifetime | 10-Year | 5-Year | 3-Year | 1-Year

For monthly comparisons of the tracking portfolios, click on the yearly chart links below. Again, since the Nasdaq Composite Index tracking portfolio was started as of September 30, 2003, it is shown only on 2003 and later charts.

1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | Average

For daily charts for the three tracking portfolios, click on the links below.