February 25th 2011 Monthly Tracking Portfolio

As my readers know, I create a tracking portfolio of 50 stocks from the MFI screen greater than $100m market cap 12 times a year. I then track how they perform over a one year holding period against the Russell 3000. I also create two "sub-portfolios", (1) A dividend portfolio, which is comprised of stocks with a yield of 2.6% or greater per Yahoo Finance and (2) a new portfolio, which are stocks that are not in any of the other past 11 monthly tracking portfolios.

February 25th 2011 was another poor performer, down 5.5% versus the Russell 3000 being up 5%. That makes it the 14th straight portfolio to close as a loser. That streak may not end any time soon as the next 6 portfolios are all losing as well. Here are the 50 stocks listed in descending order. There were a couple of Chinese stocks that hurt (SCEI and NEP), but it is hard to blame entirely on them.

Stock	Initial Price	End Price	Percent Change	Mkt Cap
LO	74.54	130.01	74%	11,534
AGX	8.79	15.26	74%	116
PRM	4.44	7.10	60%	188
RLRN	10.65	16.62	56%	308
PDLI	4.40	6.45	47%	667
CEPH	56.22	81.49	45%	4,246
NSR	25.38	35.51	40%	1,875
RIGL	7.30	10.19	40%	370
MRX	25.58	33.81	32%	1,491
CMTL	26.15	32.82	26%	748
MSFT	25.85	31.48	22%	224,948
GME	19.72	22.73	15%	2,953
DELL	15.13	17.43	15%	29,047
APOL	45.77	52.14	14%	6,464
HRB	14.52	16.38	13%	4,549
IPXL	20.83	23.49	13%	1,332
DLX	24.27	25.35	4%	1,269
CRTX	5.49	5.71	4%	140
MFW	25.07	26.00	4%	474
RTN	49.40	50.78	3%	18,290
FRX	31.88	32.29	1%	9,134
CNXT	2.37	2.40	1%	193
USMO	14.20	14.10	-1%	343
SNDK	50.18	49.14	-2%	11,495
TSRA	17.55	16.37	-7%	866
PRSC	16.19	14.97	-8%	195
EME	30.81	27.92	-9%	1,995
TER	18.65	16.38	-12%	3,293
PETS	14.18	12.44	-12%	333
GTAT	10.94	9.02	-18%	1,344
CSGS	19.81	16.25	-18%	659
CPLA	57.06	41.45	-27%	937
CHKE	16.32	11.46	-30%	152
TNAV	10.74	7.47	-30%	455
LPS	33.08	22.67	-31%	2,948
OSK	35.70	24.46	-31%	3,216
NEP	5.11	3.42	-33%	149
ARO	26.26	17.44	-34%	2,316
AFAM	38.86	25.52	-34%	349
ASTX	3.00	1.96	-35%	177
VNDA	7.28	4.75	-35%	201
MPAA	14.10	8.40	-40%	169
VECO	48.40	28.83	-40%	1,927
LINC	15.15	8.99	-41%	344
UIS	36.74	18.97	-48%	1,543
PWER	9.07	4.67	-49%	947
CECO	23.88	11.93	-50%	1,868
CRME	5.80	2.27	-61%	338
AMED	35.32	11.99	-66%	1,008
SCEI	6.79	1.64	-76%	114

You will note that many of the best performers were divvy stocks (like LO). The dividend portfolio was up an impressive 21%:

Stock	Initial Price	End Price	Percent Change
LO	74.54	130.01	74%
PRM	4.44	7.10	60%
RLRN	10.65	16.62	56%
PDLI	4.40	6.45	47%
HRB	14.52	16.38	13%
DLX	24.27	25.35	4%
RTN	49.40	50.78	3%
USMO	14.20	14.10	-1%
PETS	14.18	12.44	-12%
CHKE	16.32	11.46	-30%

Then the "new" stocks did well, up almost 10%:

Stock	Initial Price	End Price	Percent Change
RLRN	10.65	16.62	56%
CEPH	56.22	81.49	45%
CRTX	5.49	5.71	4%
CPLA	57.06	41.45	-27%
VNDA	7.28	4.75	-35%

As my readers know, I like to track actual cash investments over time rather than percentages. This is because up 25% then down 25% leaves you in a different spot than up 5% then down 5%. So I track my three portfolios (plus the Russell 3000 as if you invested 100,000 evenly over 1st 12 months. Here is where you'd stand:

Category	Value
Total	120,370
Total New	113,101
Total Dividend	239,090
Total Russell 3K	121,283

February 24th 2012 Portfolio

Here are the dividend stocks and New stocks in the upcoming portfolio:

Divvy

Date	Stock	Yield
2/24/2012	USMO	7.1%
2/24/2012	RTN	3.4%
2/24/2012	PDLI	9.3%
2/24/2012	NOC	14.0%
2/24/2012	KLAC	2.7%
2/24/2012	DLX	3.9%
2/24/2012	HRB	4.0%

New

Stock	Initial Price	End Price	Mkt Cap	New
VIAB	47.45	47.45	25,787	1
ESIC	4.70	4.70	149	1
ARTC	26.43	26.43	706	1
ATVI	12.12	12.12	13,902	1