Sunday, November 18, 2012

Quick Look at MFI Performance

Great morning here in New England.  Really starting to get crisp and cool here.  I may have to think about bringing in wood for the fireplace pretty soon. 

Also, we are quickly winding towards Thanksgiving.  We will spend the long weekend up in New Hampshire.

MFI Results in 2012

I was looking at my tracking portfolios this morning.  Of the 12 open portfolios, only three are making money.  All 12 on average are down 2.8%.  The worst one is the 9/28/12 portfolio, which is down 8.3%.


Stock  Initial Price   End Price  Percent Change  Mkt Cap 
ESI              32.23           17.39 -46.0%           753
GTAT                5.45             3.10 -43.1%           629
APOL              29.05           19.51 -32.8%         3,315
EXPR              14.82           10.85 -26.8%         1,299
UIS              20.82           15.59 -25.1%           945
STRA              64.35           48.65 -24.4%           782
UTSI                1.03             0.79 -23.3%           156
RPXC              11.19             8.85 -20.9%           595
CPLA              35.06           27.89 -20.5%           467
POZN                6.63             5.29 -20.2%           201
GNI              80.40           67.20 -16.4%           124
INTX                9.73             8.15 -16.2%           190
LPS              27.89           23.80 -14.7%         2,359
NSU                4.70             4.03 -14.3%           942
AFAM              21.28           18.29 -14.1%           200
CF            221.79         195.58 -11.8%       13,789
EGY                8.55             7.55 -11.7%           493
STX              30.63           27.11 -11.5%       12,397
WCRX              13.50           11.98 -11.3%         3,334
JCOM              32.33           28.79 -10.9%         1,454
MSFT              29.52           26.52 -10.2%     252,771
DELL                9.86             8.86 -10.2%       17,379
BODY              10.45             9.56 -8.5%           175
VECO              30.00           27.49 -8.4%         1,206
SAI              11.91           11.01 -7.6%         4,131
USMO              11.73           10.87 -7.3%           266
NATR              16.29           15.10 -7.3%           258
KLAC              47.29           44.33 -6.3%         7,985
TW              53.05           50.17 -5.4%         3,840
CSCO              18.96           17.99 -5.1%       99,576
PDLI                7.70             7.35 -4.5%         1,073
SAVE              17.08           16.32 -4.4%         1,259
USNA              46.47           44.52 -4.2%           655
RTN              56.66           54.46 -3.9%       19,103
DHX                8.42             8.11 -3.7%           533
DLB              32.75           31.58 -3.6%         3,588
DLX              30.30           29.26 -3.4%         1,549
KLIC              10.41           10.07 -3.3%           772
CACI              51.79           50.48 -2.5%         1,269
VG                2.28             2.23 -2.2%           517
MANT              24.00           23.54 -1.9%           893
UBNT              11.90           11.98 0.7%         1,085
ICON              18.24           18.44 1.1%         1,301
HRB              17.33           17.85 3.0%         4,698
PETS                9.90           10.44 5.5%           204
AGX              16.85           18.31 8.7%           242
NUS              38.66           44.22 14.4%         2,279
GME              21.00           25.55 21.7%         2,605
TNAV                5.97             7.40 24.0%           246
QCOR              18.47           24.78 34.2%         1,064

I do not know about you, but that is pretty distressing. Honestly, my new MFI is not faring any better.  I am starting to question whether I have found the secret sauce.


August 15 Tranche  









Stock Start Current Dividend Pct Gain R3K Gain
DLB $34.43 $31.58 $0.00 -8.3% -2.4%
KFY $13.98 $13.20 $0.00 -5.6% -2.4%
MSFT $30.19 $26.52 $0.23 -10.6% -2.4%
NSU $3.62 $4.03 $0.00 11.5% -2.4%
UIS $19.96 $15.59 $0.00 -21.9% -2.4%
Totals


-7.0% -2.4%






November 15 Tranche  









Stock Start Current Dividend Pct Gain R3K Gain
AAPL $537.62 $527.68               -   -1.8% 0.6%
ABC $40.21 $40.26               -   0.1% 0.6%
LPS $23.89 $23.80               -   -0.4% 0.6%
VIAB $49.12 $49.46               -   0.7% 0.6%
WU $12.77 $12.71               -   -0.5% 0.6%
Totals


-0.4% 0.6%

Not too impressive.  I intend to keep plugging along.  But when August 2013 rolls around, I will take serious stock on whether to continue or not.  The dividend side of my portfolio is really cooking.

4 comments:

Homer315 said...

The market generally is down about 6% since late September, so it's no surprised that the Sep tranche is tanking.

AndrewsDad said...

Seems like the dividend portfolio has been doing great for a while now. Any reason why you have not switched just to that?

sleepswell said...

I have used real money quarterly portfolios since 2011. I have 3 closed and 4 open. Only one has/is beating the market (the 8/2011, which has closed). Of the 7, 5 have/are losing money.

Marsh_Gerda said...

Thanks for everyone's notes. The dividend portfolio is my largest component of my investments. I started to go back into MFI as I had convinced myself that I had identified ways to avoid some of the traps hidden within MFI stocks. Still early days to see if that is true or not. I will stick with it for. Bit.