Finance YouTubers’ 2026 Picks: Value Investors are Getting Crushed

Hi guys, In order to make my YouTube video for this week, I reviewed the performance of every finance YouTuber’s “best picks for 2026” videos. It is quite clear, looking at the data from the first 6 months, that value investors are lagging behind by a big margin while AI storytellers are all outperforming the index. What is your take? Is it just a special moment with huge market hype around AI, but things will revert in the coming years? Is it that the overall market dynamic has changed, with the increased speed of information dissemination making market narratives more important today than in the past? Are 6 months just nothing, so the data has no value at all? If you want to watch the video, here is the link: [I Tracked 30 Stock YouTubers. Only 12 Are Beating The Market!](https://youtu.be/aIzjCVMVXk0) I understand it is self-promotion, but I really do not need the views from this sub. My last video got 200 views from this subs out of 27K. I really don’t care, I just like to get insulted on Reddit 😅 and I honestly prefer you guys to keep the discussion here. I do not want to spoil the video, but if you want to know the mid-season ranking without watching YouTube: >!From worst to best:!< * >!Brian Stoffel!< * >!Fired Up Wealth!< * >!Parkev Tatevosian!< * >!ZipTrader!< * >!Asymmetric Investing!< * >!Everything Money!< * >!Adriconomics!< * >!Dividend Compounders with Cheese!< * >!Stealth Wealth Investing!< * >!Deep Value Hunter!< * >!Akshat Shrivastava!< * >!Financial Education!< * >!Daniel Pronk!< * >!Invest with Henry!< * >!Sven Carlin!< * >!Chris Sain!< * >!Couch Investor!< * >!Joseph Carlson!< * >!Jerry Romine!< * >!The Patient Investor!< * >!Mark Roussin!< * >!Business with Brian!< * >!MarketBeat!< * >!Best of Us Investors!< * >!Joseph Hogue!< * >!FinTek!< * >!Tom Nash!< * >!Ticker Symbol: YOU!< * >!Jose Najarro!< * >!Market Moneys!<