few players—stars such as willy mays hank aaron mike trout and mookie betts—can make baseball’s 3030 club it’s for players who hit 30 home runs and steal 30 basis in the same season i have a 3030 club for companies to make it a company must post a return on stockholders’ equity of 30 or better and boast earnings growth averaging 30 or more for the past five years it must also have a market value of 2 billion or more fortyseven companies made the roster this year each of them deserves a spotlight and a drum roll i wouldn’t buy all their stocks however since many are highly priced and a few are highly indebted southern copper mines copper and other metals in peru and mexico i think the economy and inflation will both be running hot for the next year or so—a good environment for metals producers the stock sells for 17 times earnings medifast sells weight loss products and i figure that a lot of people have a few extra covid pounds to lose the stock goes for 13 times earnings williamssonoma  a housewares retailer sells for only 10 times earnings despite its outstanding profitability and growth nexstar media group looks like a bargain to me at nine times earnings it owns 197 television stations even more of a bargain at eight times earnings is dick’s sporting goods dks cheapest of all at six times earnings is mueller industries  which makes engineered products such as refrigerator coils it earned a striking return on equity of almost 48 last year i consider anything over 15 good the largest stocks that achieved 3030 status this year are alphabet  nvidia nvda adobe  netflix and regeneron pharmaceuticals  boasting the fastest fiveyear earnings growth are biorad laboratories  fortinet  netflix gartner and boise cascade  standing out for extremely high profitability were fair isaac fico sealed air  waters  netapp and artisan partners asset management apam you may be wondering about some bigname investor favorites where are amazon  apple  meta platforms  microsoft and tesla on this list the answer is that they aren’t on it amazoncom came excruciatingly close missing the returnonequity cutoff by less than one percentage point apple is spectacularly profitable but its earnings growth rate for the past five years is about 19 meta platforms formerly called facebook missed both criteria by a whisker microsoft just missed the cut with 27 earnings growth tesla’s return on equity was 22 and it hasn’t been profitable long enough for a fiveyear earnings growth rate to be calculated i’ve been compiling the 3030 club roster most years since 1999 in the 17 years in which i made recommendations my picks have averaged a 104 return including dividends the standard  poor’s total return index has averaged 84 bear in mind that my column results are hypothetical and shouldn’t be confused with results i obtain for clients also past performance doesn’t predict the future my selections have been profitable ten times out of 17 and have beaten the sp ten times a year ago i recommended three stocks regeneron pharmaceuticals posted a 56 return lgi homes fizzled down 44 progressive returned 25 collectively my picks returned 125 versus 103 for the index lgi homes and regeneron are on the list again this year in my 3030 roster this year but not mentioned above are 26 other companies listed below disclosure for clients and personally i own alphabet apple dr horton encore wire and lam research one or more of my clients owns adobe amazoncom biorad microsoft nvidia progressive sealed air and tesla john dorfman is chairman of dorfman value investments llc in boston massachusetts and a syndicated columnist his firm or clients may own or trade securities discussed in this column he can be reached at jdorfmandorfmanvaluecom