The New Tranche Is In

August 15th 201 MFI Tranche

Whew!  I expect my readers do not realize it, but the day I retire one tranche and add a new one actually takes a fair amount of effort on my part.  Besides the actual buying of stocks (which was a bit difficult today due to my being in transit, coming back home from Cape Cod); my worksheets and my Yahoo portfolios all have to be amended.

I came very, very, very close to going with NUS instead of BRCD. Time will tell which will be the better stock.  I also had to think a bit about how to track the AGX as it was a rollover of a stock.

So here are my four tranches:

11/15/13 Stocks	Start	Current	Dividend	Pct Gain	R3K Gain
AVG	$17.22	$17.71	$0.00	2.8%	9.8%
ATVI	$17.71	$23.36	$0.20	33.0%	9.8%
GA	$9.04	$11.90	$0.23	34.2%	9.8%
RPXC	$17.04	$14.96	$0.00	-12.2%	9.8%
SYNA	$48.01	$80.35	$0.00	67.4%	9.8%
Totals				25.1%	9.8%
2/1/14 Stocks	Start	Current	Dividend	Pct Gain	R3K Gain
ATVI	$17.13	$23.36	$0.20	37.5%	9.9%
KLAC	$61.47	$74.07	$1.40	22.8%	9.9%
RPXC	$16.22	$14.96	$0.00	-7.8%	9.9%
SNDK	$69.55	$94.03	$0.53	36.0%	9.9%
WNR	$39.11	$45.58	$0.78	18.5%	9.9%
Totals				21.4%	9.9%
5/6/2014	Start	Current	Dividend	Pct Gain	R3K Gain
AVG	$19.57	$17.71	$0.00	-9.5%	4.5%
CA	$29.54	$28.36	$0.25	-3.2%	4.5%
CSCO	$22.79	$24.43	$0.19	8.1%	4.5%
NSR	$25.82	$28.66	$0.00	11.0%	4.5%
RCII	$28.78	$24.80	$0.23	-13.0%	4.5%
Totals				-1.3%	4.5%
8/15/2014	Start	Current	Dividend	Pct Gain	R3K Gain
CSCO	$24.40	$24.43	$0.00	0.1%	0.0%
AGX	$36.71	$37.05	$0.00	0.9%	0.0%
ITRN	$21.32	$21.47	$0.00	0.7%	0.0%
BRCD	$9.34	$9.33	$0.00	-0.1%	0.0%
CBI	$58.25	$58.32	$0.00	0.1%	0.0%
Totals				0.4%	0.0%

As discussed I did increase my $ per stock in the August tranche by about 25%.  I had added dollars before, but much smaller amounts. So cross your fingers that the add was good timing.

Then here is my new summary table:

Category/Tranche	August	November	February	May	Total
Initial Investment	25,000	25,000	25,000	25,000	100,000
Current Tranche	0.4%	25.1%	21.4%	-1.3%	11.0%
Previous Tranche	41.4%	43.7%	78.3%	33.0%	55.2%
Tranche -2	14.1%	-	-	-	3.5%
MFI Overall Gain	61.9%	79.8%	116.4%	31.3%	72.3%
Current Balance	40,472	44,939	54,103	32,813	172,327
R3K Current Tranche	19.4%	50.1%	9.9%	4.5%	21.0%
R3K Overall Gain	45.9%	50.1%	33.1%	24.2%	37.0%
R3K Balance	36,469	37,524	33,264	29,722	136,980
Annualized IRR	27.2%	39.8%	65.3%	23.7%	40.0%

I was unsure what to do with a 3rd year of tranches in there.  I thought about just two categories: Current Tranche and Prior Tranches.  But I decided to list all tranches in the table: Current Tranche, Previous Tranche and Tranche -2 (wasn't sure of good name for that one).

Finally, here is how my MFI is doing against the benchmark by month:

Date	Differential	Value
12/1/2012	-2.20%	99,765
1/1/2013	-1.78%	102,798
2/1/2013	-2.26%	102,594
3/1/2013	-2.23%	102,881
4/1/2013	-0.43%	106,804
5/1/2013	2.00%	110,423
6/1/2013	4.75%	115,831
7/1/2013	4.29%	114,888
8/1/2013	6.91%	124,799
9/1/2013	10.46%	124,536
10/1/2013	19.67%	138,655
11/1/2013	19.75%	143,514
12/1/2013	23.70%	150,105
1/1/2014	26.63%	157,138
2/1/2014	24.70%	150,619
3/1/2014	25.66%	158,116
4/1/2014	30.38%	162,991
5/1/2014	29.65%	162,428
6/1/2014	32.14%	167,001
7/1/2014	40.63%	177,971
8/1/2014	31.73%	167,054
Current	35.35%	172,327

You can see I have regained a lot of lost ground in August (after a terrible July).