Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Taking The (MFI)ce Tea Plunge!


Once again, I am no doubt showing my age… for those who don’t remember the Nestea Plunge (or perhaps weren’t born, sigh) I sincerely apologize.

Late yesterday I decided to sell my emerging market mutual funds (which had done quite nicely thank-you). Time will tell if that wasn’t so smart, and yes… I will likely look back and grade myself. That freed up some moolah to buy four of the stocks that I have recently been reviewing. I figured with the recent swoon that this was as good a time as any to take the (MFI)ce Tea Plunge.

I think the other factoid that persuaded me was that I re-read part of TLBTBTSM (I think I got that right) and decided you are either in or out. None of this pussy-footing around. So now my entire (not so vast) fortune is riding on JG’s book. (not entirely true as my wife-ola would kill me, but makes a nice poetic point).

I am now the proud owner of 24 MFI stocks. The recent Fab Four choices were FDG, KG, OVTI & RAIL. The table below (I am trying to improve the format) shows where I stand at the end of May.

StockCostCurrentGain
NCOG$19.39$27.0539.5%
UST$39.36$44.0113.3%
PCU$78.13$85.1512.5%
NSS$45.89$49.928.8%
PTEN$27.74$29.907.9%
MTEX$13.11$13.996.7%
MGLN$38.34$40.455.5%
OVTI$28.50$29.302.8%
PNCL$6.68$6.842.4%
CHKE$37.55$37.792.2%
KG$17.60$17.781.0%
FDG$34.90$35.000.3%
MSTR$94.36$94.380.0%
ELX$17.85$17.72-0.7%
RAIL$60.94$60.36-1.0%
FTO$57.52$56.00-2.6%
PGI$7.71$7.50-2.7%
TGIS$10.65$10.19-4.3%
ANF$61.13$57.85-5.1%
IVII$10.93$10.21-6.6%
PACR$32.53$29.51-8.8%
PONR$32.97$27.77-15.8%
DLX$26.36$21.49-17.0%
TBL$34.50$27.63-19.9%
HW$37.42$27.45-26.6%




Total Gain/Loss
-$1,053
Benchmark Gain/Loss
-$3,004
Annual IRR

-3.1%

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