March 25th 2010 Tracking Portfolio

Another day, another year. As my readers know, I set up a tracking portfolio once a month comprised of the top 50 stocks greater than 100m and then track them for a year versus the Russell 3000. The stocks a year ago didn't do that great, up just 10% versus 15.4% for the Russell 3000. Here is a listing of the 50 stocks:

Top 50 Stocks from March 25th 2010

Stock	Initial Price	End Price	Percent Change	52 week low	Mkt Cap
WTW	25.00	64.20	157%	24.47	1,972
SOLR	5.11	10.85	112%	4.90	734
DECK	45.49	83.00	82%	40.76	1,756
RGR	12.39	21.80	76%	11.98	241
PPD	37.50	65.86	76%	34.00	377
CBI	23.23	40.72	75%	16.64	2,331
FLR	45.78	73.59	61%	41.20	8,265
IDCC	27.96	44.10	58%	22.30	1,210
ENDP	23.38	35.34	51%	19.58	2,742
VCLK	10.00	14.51	45%	8.88	839
CF	89.66	125.82	40%	57.56	4,373
RAI	25.13	34.96	39%	19.50	15,612
DLX	18.75	25.82	38%	16.57	1,005
CBPO	11.35	15.16	34%	9.31	257
FWLT	27.25	35.98	32%	20.33	3,473
CNU	3.91	5.12	31%	3.25	234
LO	72.01	93.73	30%	70.24	11,914
USMO	11.23	14.61	30%	12.10	287
JCOM	23.32	29.42	26%	21.00	1,031
EME	25.47	31.48	24%	22.29	1,686
VGR	14.04	17.09	22%	13.88	1,093
SNTA	4.56	5.19	14%	2.55	155
PRGX	5.99	6.28	5%	3.60	139
CHKE	16.94	17.14	1%	15.72	160
IMMU	3.46	3.49	1%	2.81	260
FRX	31.22	31.31	0%	24.17	9,440
GME	21.78	21.73	0%	17.70	3,456
HRB	16.61	16.47	-1%	10.13	5,716
ELNK	7.94	7.85	-1%	7.73	905
PDLI	5.70	5.63	-1%	4.66	766
PRSC	15.71	15.21	-3%	11.88	203
EPAX	10.78	10.30	-4%	9.74	209
RTN	55.53	51.28	-8%	42.65	21,639
SAI	19.10	17.04	-11%	14.87	4,107
UIS	36.22	32.20	-11%	17.04	1,532
TSRA	20.68	17.78	-14%	14.96	1,031
UNTD	7.20	6.18	-14%	4.75	650
ARO	28.59	24.19	-15%	21.26	2,833
QDEL	13.90	11.71	-16%	10.48	403
APOL	62.43	43.36	-31%	33.75	9,669
SMED	6.90	4.71	-32%	3.65	101
SNTS	4.88	3.22	-34%	2.09	285
VALV	8.07	4.85	-40%	4.50	184
AMED	57.33	34.00	-41%	22.82	1,616
QKLS	5.90	2.92	-51%	-	123
UEPS	18.21	8.80	-52%	8.24	826
XOMA	0.42	0.19	-55%	2.24	113
CEU	5.38	1.58	-71%	-	133
CSKI	15.31	3.79	-75%	3.56	256
SPMD	40.31	7.09	-82%	4.33	605

Here is a listing of all the monthly portfolios I have tracked since January 2006:

Date	Total	IWV
1/6/2006	16.0%	10.9%
2/17/2006	21.2%	14.6%
3/29/2006	13.0%	9.6%
4/7/2006	10.3%	12.1%
5/12/2006	20.4%	18.6%
5/31/2006	29.2%	23.3%
6/30/2006	22.4%	20.0%
7/31/2006	19.7%	17.3%
8/31/2006	13.0%	13.3%
9/28/2006	12.7%	14.6%
10/27/2006	10.3%	12.0%
11/29/2006	-0.3%	4.8%
12/28/2006	-6.9%	3.4%
1/26/2007	-10.2%	-6.6%
2/27/2007	-3.7%	-1.0%
3/26/2007	-9.8%	-5.5%
4/27/2007	-10.9%	-5.0%
5/29/2007	-11.5%	-6.3%
7/3/2007	-30.0%	-15.6%
7/30/2007	-19.9%	-11.5%
8/30/2007	-12.5%	-8.7%
9/27/2007	-19.0%	-18.2%
11/2/2007	-40.4%	-34.3%
11/28/2007	-40.1%	-38.3%
12/28/2007	-36.3%	-40.0%
1/25/2008	-36.4%	-35.9%
2/26/2008	-51.7%	-41.5%
3/24/2008	-40.9%	-36.8%
4/25/2008	-25.6%	-31.0%
5/28/2008	-22.2%	-33.6%
7/2/2008	-11.7%	-25.3%
7/29/2008	-10.5%	-20.9%
8/29/2008	-13.8%	-17.9%
9/26/2008	-4.3%	-10.0%
10/31/2008	18.7%	13.9%
11/26/2008	50.9%	27.7%
12/26/2008	48.9%	32.3%
1/23/2009	59.3%	36.4%
2/27/2009	92.8%	55.6%
3/27/2009	85.8%	48.1%
4/24/2009	69.7%	45.8%
5/29/2009	31.8%	22.8%
6/29/2009	21.3%	24.0%
7/29/2009	19.5%	15.9%
8/28/2009	7.4%	8.8%
9/25/2009	12.6%	12.4%
10/30/2009	22.7%	18.3%
11/27/2009	24.3%	13.6%
12/31/2009	23.7%	18.1%
1/22/2010	19.0%	20.6%
2/26/2010	18.6%	23.6%
3/25/2010	10.0%	15.4%
4/23/2010	4.1%	9.8%
5/28/2010	16.7%	22.1%
6/29/2010	22.9%	28.3%
7/29/2010	13.9%	21.4%
9/2/2010	25.4%	22.3%
9/24/2010	17.7%	16.0%
10/29/2010	11.8%	11.9%
11/26/2010	12.1%	10.7%
1/3/2011	4.0%	3.1%
1/28/2011	3.2%	2.9%
2/25/2011	-0.3%	-1.0%
Grand Total	7.6%	5.4%
Closed	6.8%	3.5%
Open	12.0%	13.4%

Finally, I always like to use actual dollars in my analysis as percentages and averages can be misleading (for example +10% then down 10% is different than +25% and down 25%, but they both average 0%). So here is what you would have if you started with $100,000 spread over the first 12 months:

Total	123,132
Total New	115,562
Total Dividend	214,366
Total Russell 3K	114,773

So you'd have $123k now versus $114.7k from being in Russell 3000. I also have sub portfolios called "new" and "dividend". New only uses stocks new to the tracking portfolios in past year. Dividend uses stocks that yield over 2.4%. You can see that the dividend stocks have been the big winners.

Dividend Stocks In The New Portfolio

Stock	Initial Price	End Price	Yield
UNTD	6.18	6.29	6.5%
USMO	14.61	14.8	13.7%
RTN	51.28	50.8	2.9%
PETS	15.1	15.49	3.1%
PDLI	5.63	5.53	11.5%
LO	93.73	94.74	4.9%
DLX	25.82	26.08	3.9%
CHKE	17.14	17.18	7.8%
HRB	16.47	16.56	3.6%

The only new stock is POZN.