Tough Week

Very difficult week on a personal level.  Our 13 year-old daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes on Monday.  While it is a disease that can be controlled, it does require a real lifestyle change with a regimen of injections, finger pricks and dietary thoughtfulness.

We will deal with it as a family.  But it is daunting and overwhelming.  And I am sure no father wants to see their daughter in distress or having to insist that things be done which at the very least cause discomfort.

On top of that, we traveled back to Indiana for the weekend as we had a Memorial for my father, who passed away 2 1/2 months ago.  That was very emotional for me.  So I am ready to take a deep breath, and move through this new phase of our family's life.  I will likely mention the JDRF more here and I intend on becoming active in our local chapter.  I feel the strong need to do something.

On the portfolio front, while I have my successes, I could have definitely saved some effort this year so far just by buying an ETF.  It is a dead heat, I am up 18.1% versus 17.7% for the R3K.  My dividend portfolio is under-performing a bit, up about 13.7%.  AAPL, STO and NEM continue to be the slackers.

 

Stock	Shares	Avg Cost	Current Price	Dividends Received	Pct Change	R3K Change	Diff
AAPL	213	495.23	433.26	1,041.93	-11.5%	15.3%	-26.9%
ABR	5,867	7.21	7.22	1,244.06	3.1%	9.0%	-5.9%
AOD	13,140	3.92	4.27	972.60	10.9%	11.3%	-0.4%
CIM	20,000	2.77	3.31	1,800.00	22.6%	12.9%	9.7%
CSCO	4,328	17.24	24.24	2,743.60	44.2%	25.4%	18.8%
CSQ	5,629	8.34	10.95	7,160.13	46.6%	41.9%	4.7%
FCX	2,060	31.23	32.68	831.20	5.9%	13.8%	-7.9%
INTC	1,996	20.99	24.04	2,891.61	21.4%	35.6%	-14.2%
NEM	1,408	39.84	30.63	340.00	-22.5%	8.8%	-31.3%
O	565	19.73	55.09	7,868.96	249.9%	94.2%	155.7%
OIBAX	3,972	4.95	6.57	7,149.69	69.1%	96.0%	-26.9%
PGR	2,118	20.56	26.19	2,596.23	33.3%	23.4%	9.9%
PRE	540	67.59	89.38	1,974.05	37.7%	23.7%	14.0%
RIG	1,250	51.79	54.03	-	4.3%	7.0%	-2.6%
SLW	2,000	21.95	21.77	-	-0.8%	1.0%	-1.8%
STO	1,640	23.70	22.41	3,024.82	2.4%	28.9%	-26.5%
TC-PT	5,500	15.43	17.96	2,234.10	19.0%	6.7%	12.3%
Total Open				43,873	17.2%	19.3%	-2.1%
Closed					15.5%	9.9%	5.6%
Combined					15.9%	12.3%	3.6%
Annualized IRR Since 12/31/10					18.4%
2013 Gain					13.9%

My MFI portfolio is a bit ahead (my average tranche is beating their benchmarks by about a point). 

 

8/15/12 Stocks	Start	Current	Dividend	Pct Gain	R3K Gain
DLB	$34.43	$34.43	$4.00	11.6%	21.4%
KFY	$13.98	$17.98	$0.00	28.6%	21.4%
MSFT	$30.19	$34.87	$0.69	17.8%	21.4%
NSU	$3.62	$3.30	$0.05	-7.3%	21.4%
UIS	$19.96	$18.96	$0.00	-5.0%	21.4%
Totals				9.1%	21.4%
11/15/12 Stocks	Start	Current	Dividend	Pct Gain	R3K Gain
AAPL	$537.62	$433.26	$5.70	-18.4%	25.2%
ABC	$40.21	$54.99	$0.42	37.8%	25.2%
LPS	$23.89	$29.55	$0.20	24.5%	25.2%
VIAB	$49.12	$69.72	$0.55	43.1%	25.2%
WU	$12.77	$16.65	$0.25	32.3%	25.2%
Totals				23.9%	25.2%
2/1/13 Stocks	Start	Current	Dividend	Pct Gain	R3K Gain
AAPL	$450.60	$433.26	$5.70	-2.6%	10.9%
GA	$6.10	$8.08	$0.42	39.4%	10.9%
STRZA	$16.06	$22.70	$0.00	41.3%	10.9%
CA	$25.07	$27.69	$0.25	11.4%	10.9%
NUS	$41.94	$61.23	$0.30	46.7%	10.9%
Totals				27.3%	10.9%
5/6/2013	Start	Current	Dividend	Pct Gain	R3K Gain
KLIC	$11.40	$11.60	$0.00	1.8%	3.4%
CYOU	$29.24	$30.12	$0.00	3.0%	3.4%
RDA	$9.74	$10.27	$0.00	5.5%	3.4%
NVDA	$13.85	$14.87	$0.00	7.4%	3.4%
CF	$183.97	$190.52	$0.40	3.8%	3.4%
Totals				4.3%	3.4%

The MFI Index is up 20% year-to-date, which is obviously very strong. It has picked up steam a lot in past month and I am seeing it in my 12 open tracking portfolios, where the most recent 11 portfolios are all ahead of the benchmark with an average lead of 3 points.  I think MFI is starting to work again.  In fact, since I spoke about getting into For Profit Education stocks in early May (but did not have the courage), they have gone up a lot.  Here are my MFI Index stocks year-to-date and since May 3rd:

Index	Stock	Start	Last Week	Current	YTD Change	Weekly    Change	Shares
1	APOL	20.92	17.57	21.35	2.1%	21.5%	11.14
2	AGX	18.00	17.57	16.63	-7.6%	-5.4%	12.95
3	BAH	13.92	15.56	16.61	19.3%	6.7%	16.75
4	CA	21.98	27.98	27.94	27.1%	-0.1%	10.61
5	CPLA	28.23	36.25	44.47	57.5%	22.7%	8.26
6	CF	203.16	184.20	190.72	-6.1%	3.5%	1.15
7	CSCO	19.65	21.00	24.41	24.2%	16.2%	11.86
8	DELL	10.14	13.39	13.48	32.9%	0.7%	22.99
9	DLX	32.24	37.23	39.54	22.6%	6.2%	7.23
10	DMRC	20.70	23.27	25.41	22.8%	9.2%	11.26
11	DLB	29.33	32.34	34.43	17.4%	6.5%	7.95
12	GME	25.09	37.45	40.36	60.9%	7.8%	9.29
13	GNI	67.20	74.06	70.25	4.5%	-5.1%	3.47
14	GTAT	3.03	3.84	4.52	49.2%	17.7%	76.93
15	HLF	32.94	41.30	44.74	35.8%	8.3%	7.08
16	HFC	46.55	51.26	50.14	7.7%	-2.2%	5.01
17	IDCC	41.09	44.82	47.81	16.4%	6.7%	5.67
18	INTX	9.48	9.86	10.43	10.0%	5.8%	24.59
19	ESI	17.31	17.73	25.75	48.8%	45.2%	13.47
20	JCOM	30.60	41.54	40.68	33.0%	-2.1%	7.62
21	KLIC	11.99	11.39	11.60	-3.3%	1.8%	19.44
22	LPS	24.62	28.19	29.65	20.4%	5.2%	9.47
23	MANT	25.94	28.32	28.06	8.2%	-0.9%	8.99
24	MSFT	26.71	33.72	35.10	31.4%	4.1%	8.73
25	NATR	14.48	14.54	15.41	6.4%	6.0%	16.10
26	NSU	4.28	3.67	3.30	-22.9%	-10.1%	54.47
27	NTI	25.44	26.70	28.20	10.8%	5.6%	9.16
28	NUS	37.05	54.61	61.53	66.1%	12.7%	6.29
29	PDLI	7.04	7.98	8.37	18.9%	4.9%	33.11
30	PETS	11.10	13.34	13.31	19.9%	-0.2%	21.00
31	PBI	10.64	15.77	15.54	46.1%	-1.4%	21.91
32	POOSF	1.42	0.01	0.01	-99.4%	0.0%	164.63
33	POZN	5.01	4.91	4.90	-2.2%	-0.2%	46.53
34	QCOR	26.72	34.45	37.84	41.6%	9.8%	8.72
35	RTN	57.56	63.59	67.44	17.2%	6.1%	4.05
36	RPXC	9.04	15.23	15.37	70.0%	0.9%	25.79
37	SAI	11.32	15.03	15.59	37.7%	3.7%	20.59
38	STX	30.42	41.23	41.47	36.3%	0.6%	7.66
39	SVLC	2.52	2.18	1.64	-34.9%	-24.8%	92.51
40	SAVE	17.73	27.72	28.50	60.7%	2.8%	13.15
41	STRA	56.17	45.63	54.98	-2.1%	20.5%	4.15
42	TNAV	7.99	5.15	5.17	-35.3%	0.4%	29.18
43	TZOO	18.99	27.35	28.62	50.7%	4.6%	12.28
44	UIS	17.30	18.93	18.96	9.6%	0.2%	13.47
45	USMO	11.68	13.67	13.85	18.5%	1.3%	19.96
46	USNA	32.93	56.73	65.46	98.8%	15.4%	7.08
47	EGY	8.65	7.08	6.36	-26.5%	-10.2%	26.95
48	VCI	25.78	24.77	26.08	1.2%	5.3%	9.04
49	VG	2.37	2.87	2.75	16.0%	-4.2%	98.36
50	WCRX	12.04	14.62	19.21	59.6%	31.4%	19.36
	Total	11,656	13,244	13,982	20.0%	5.6%

See how CPLA, STRA and APOL are all up about 21% and ESI is up 42% (I profiled them, but did not have the courage).

My really big winners have been in my discretionary portfolio.  GTAT is up 33% since I re-bought them.  If you cancel out my sale of them (when they were up 25%) as I re-bought the same number of shares at a slightly lower price, I have gained 65% cumulatively.  Then GNW is up 43% since the start of the year.