April 23rd 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 7.1% versus 11.4% for the Russell 3000. Here is a listing of the 50 stocks:

Top 50 Stocks from April 23rd 2010

Stock	Initial Price	End Price	Percent Change	52 week low	Mkt Cap
WTW	26.71	77.74	191%	24.47	2,099
SOLR	5.65	9.65	71%	4.90	812
ENDP	22.96	38.88	69%	19.58	2,693
CF	84.75	138.84	64%	57.56	4,133
CBI	25.49	40.78	60%	16.64	2,557
IDCC	28.88	45.90	59%	22.30	1,252
TTT	10.34	16.14	56%	6.60	431
VCLK	10.25	15.79	54%	8.88	860
PPD	43.22	65.94	53%	38.58	434
SNTA	4.05	5.70	41%	2.55	138
MRX	25.32	35.08	39%	21.02	1,482
RGR	15.27	20.92	37%	12.66	297
CBPO	11.07	15.00	36%	9.31	255
CNU	3.73	5.05	35%	3.25	224
LO	75.03	99.21	32%	70.24	12,413
ABC	30.78	40.55	32%	27.09	8,835
FLR	52.88	69.40	31%	41.20	9,547
DLX	21.79	26.82	23%	16.57	1,168
JCOM	24.20	29.58	22%	21.00	1,070
USMO	12.32	14.80	20%	12.10	315
MD	57.02	66.88	17%	44.83	2,678
VGR	15.02	17.61	17%	13.88	1,169
PDLI	5.71	6.28	10%	4.66	767
GME	25.22	26.54	5%	17.70	4,001
EME	28.75	30.18	5%	22.29	1,903
HRB	17.29	17.65	2%	10.13	5,949
IMMU	3.73	3.78	1%	2.81	281
CHKE	19.02	19.04	0%	15.72	180
ELNK	8.19	8.17	0%	7.73	934
PRGX	6.66	6.52	-2%	3.60	155
SNTS	3.45	3.20	-7%	2.09	201
TNDM	16.96	15.33	-10%	9.87	570
RTN	57.81	48.75	-16%	42.65	22,598
UIS	38.67	32.50	-16%	17.04	1,636
TSRA	22.16	18.40	-17%	14.96	1,105
QDEL	14.70	12.15	-17%	10.48	427
PRSC	17.13	14.03	-18%	11.88	221
ARO	31.88	25.90	-19%	21.26	2,997
UNTD	7.99	6.21	-22%	4.75	721
VALU	19.77	14.31	-28%	12.00	227
SVA	5.66	4.02	-29%	3.50	241
SMED	7.61	4.87	-36%	3.65	111
APOL	63.53	39.80	-37%	33.75	9,631
AMED	60.62	33.66	-44%	22.82	1,709
CYTK	3.20	1.54	-52%	1.20	196
UEPS	18.24	8.56	-53%	8.24	828
VALV	8.56	3.25	-62%	2.87	195
CEU	5.34	1.37	-74%	-	160
CSKI	14.71	3.16	-79%	3.00	246
SPMD	46.58	5.60	-88%	4.33	699

Weight watchers was la creme de la creme.

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

Average of Percent Change
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	7.1%	11.4%
5/28/2010	20.0%	23.9%
6/29/2010	26.0%	30.3%
7/29/2010	16.0%	23.2%
9/2/2010	30.0%	24.2%
9/24/2010	21.1%	17.7%
10/29/2010	16.3%	13.6%
11/26/2010	13.2%	12.4%
1/3/2011	4.2%	4.6%
1/28/2011	3.7%	4.5%
2/25/2011	1.4%	0.5%
3/24/2011	2.2%	1.1%
Grand Total	8.0%	5.6%
Closed	6.9%	3.7%
Open	14.0%	14.2%

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:

Category	Value
Total	125,744
Total New	119,271
Total Dividend	225,083
Total Russell 3K	116,355

So you'd have $126k now versus $116.3k 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

As this component has outperformed the all stock portfolios, I have listed the dividend stocks comprising the new portfolio along with their current prices.

Date	Stock	Initial Price
4/21/2011	UNTD	6.21
4/21/2011	USMO	14.8
4/21/2011	STRA	119.98
4/21/2011	RTN	48.75
4/21/2011	PETS	14.74
4/21/2011	PDLI	6.28
4/21/2011	LO	99.21
4/21/2011	GNI	103.9
4/21/2011	DLX	26.82
4/21/2011	CMTL	28.05
4/21/2011	CHKE	19.04
4/21/2011	HRB	17.65

Finally, the dividend stocks in the 2010 April portfolio were up 22%. Here are the individual stocks:

Stock	Initial Price	End Price	Percent Change	Yield
WTW	26.71	77.74	191%	2.6%
VGR	15.02	17.61	17%	10.5%
VALU	19.77	14.31	-28%	3.0%
UNTD	7.99	6.21	-22%	5.0%
USMO	12.32	14.8	20%	8.1%
PDLI	5.71	6.28	10%	46.8%
LO	75.03	99.21	32%	5.3%
ELNK	8.19	8.17	0%	5.1%
DLX	21.79	26.82	23%	4.6%
CHKE	19.02	19.04	0%	11.9%
HRB	17.29	17.65	2%	3.5%