My top two for 2026 are $APH (Amphenol) and $MCK (McKesson). Amphenol keeps putting up mid-teens organic growth in the interconnect segment and guided FY26 roughly 8 to 10 percent top-line, which is conservative given the datacenter buildout. Stock trades around 25x forward but the five-year EPS CAGR is 14 percent so the PEG is reasonable. McKesson is boring on purpose: low-teens EPS growth, buying back 5 percent of the float annually, trades at 17x forward. I run a volatility overlay on the portfolio and McKesson's realized vol is under 20 percent which is unusual for a name compounding earnings this fast.

For the actual portfolio build I've been running the 2026 candidate list on https://covenantalpha.com to compare the five-year beta and drawdown profile side-by-side before committing cash. It's useful for catching correlation traps when a watchlist looks diversified on sector labels but the underlying factor exposure clusters on rates sensitivity. I don't use it for execution, just the pre-commit screen.