James K. Glassman's Top 10 Stock Picks for 2019

For the third year in a row, my 10 annual stock choices beat Standard & Poor's 500-stock index. Since we published the 2018 list, the picks have returned, on average, 15.5%, or 5.3 percentage points more than the S&P 500. Don't get too excited about my forecasting ability. No one beats the market consistently.

Let me brag, however, about one selection. Every year for more than two decades, I have drawn up the list by choosing among the selections of experts, and lately I have been throwing in a stock of my own. This year, for the first time, that personal stock pick ranked number one among the 10. It was Lululemon (symbol ), the athletic clothing maker and retailer--up 123.6%. According to tradition, that gives me the first choice