| Stock | Start | 2-Jan | Current | YTD Change |
| ADMS | 17.37 | 17.49 | 17.41 | 0.2% |
| AFOP | 14.51 | 14.55 | 17.70 | 22.0% |
| ANIK | 40.74 | 39.76 | 39.75 | -2.4% |
| APOL | 34.11 | 33.26 | 26.76 | -21.5% |
| AGX | 33.64 | 33.52 | 32.40 | -3.7% |
| AVID | 14.21 | 14.22 | 14.63 | 3.0% |
| AWRE | 4.54 | 4.50 | 4.44 | -2.2% |
| BCOR | 13.85 | 13.51 | 14.40 | 4.0% |
| BKE | 52.52 | 52.68 | 51.04 | -2.8% |
| CA | 30.45 | 30.69 | 31.64 | 3.9% |
| CSCO | 27.82 | 27.61 | 28.13 | 1.1% |
| COH | 37.56 | 37.31 | 41.58 | 10.7% |
| DLX | 62.25 | 61.60 | 63.79 | 2.5% |
| DEPO | 16.11 | 16.05 | 25.20 | 56.4% |
| EBIX | 16.99 | 16.81 | 29.63 | 74.4% |
| FLR | 60.63 | 60.69 | 56.90 | -6.2% |
| GME | 33.80 | 33.80 | 40.70 | 20.4% |
| GORO | 3.38 | 3.44 | 3.01 | -10.9% |
| ONE | 4.21 | 4.22 | 2.65 | -37.1% |
| IQNT | 19.63 | 19.13 | 15.64 | -20.3% |
| IDCC | 52.90 | 52.39 | 53.05 | 0.3% |
| IILG | 20.89 | 21.02 | 26.79 | 28.2% |
| ITRN | 22.04 | 21.69 | 22.33 | 1.3% |
| KING | 15.36 | 15.06 | 15.84 | 3.1% |
| LCI | 42.88 | 43.28 | 65.03 | 51.7% |
| LFVN | 1.30 | 1.32 | 0.79 | -39.2% |
| LQDT | 8.17 | 7.96 | 9.69 | 18.6% |
| MSB | 17.28 | 17.45 | 17.50 | 1.3% |
| NHTC | 11.45 | 11.33 | 16.69 | 45.8% |
| NSR | 27.80 | 27.74 | 22.26 | -19.9% |
| NUS | 43.70 | 42.28 | 56.09 | 28.4% |
| PDLI | 7.71 | 7.68 | 7.28 | -5.6% |
| PFMT | 6.65 | 6.58 | 3.76 | -43.5% |
| PETS | 14.37 | 14.49 | 15.89 | 10.6% |
| PBI | 24.37 | 24.37 | 22.63 | -7.2% |
| RPXC | 13.78 | 13.71 | 14.50 | 5.2% |
| SPOK | 17.36 | 17.42 | 17.59 | 1.3% |
| STRA | 74.28 | 72.63 | 59.93 | -19.3% |
| RGR | 34.63 | 34.90 | 52.28 | 51.0% |
| TTWO | 28.03 | 28.10 | 25.43 | -9.3% |
| TDC | 43.68 | 44.00 | 42.14 | -3.5% |
| TZOO | 12.62 | 12.16 | 9.63 | -23.7% |
| TPUB | 22.90 | 22.82 | 17.59 | -23.2% |
| UBNT | 29.64 | 29.70 | 30.47 | 2.8% |
| UIS | 29.48 | 28.89 | 23.20 | -21.3% |
| USNA | 102.59 | 102.28 | 100.00 | -2.5% |
| VEC | 27.40 | 27.39 | 32.03 | 16.9% |
| VIAB | 75.25 | 75.40 | 68.46 | -9.0% |
| WTW | 24.84 | 21.53 | 10.47 | -57.9% |
| WILN | 2.99 | 3.02 | 2.57 | -14.0% |
| Total | 19,816 | 19,666 | #N/A | 1.2% |
As you can see, EBIX is up 74% and the total index is up 1.2%. As there are 50 stocks, the impact of EBIX is 74%/50, which is about 1.5%. So MFI index is negative without EBIX. Actually, that is unfair, there are some other good stocks, such as RGR, DEPO, LCI and NHTC. Luckily I own a couple of those (as well as GME and NUS).
MFI Formula
As I mentioned, I have two weeks before my next MFI tranche. Again, for yucks, I loaded today's top 50 over $100m into my worksheet to see what will qualify.
| Ticker | Market Cap | Price | Dividend | Yield |
| 8,756 | 31.81 | 0.80 | 2.5% | |
| CA | 13,759 | 31.39 | 1.00 | 3.2% |
| 142,690 | 27.94 | 0.84 | 3.0% | |
| 4,449 | 40.70 | 1.44 | 3.5% | |
| 340,061 | 41.38 | 1.24 | 3.0% | |
| 1,173 | 7.28 | 0.60 | 8.2% | |
| 4,510 | 22.44 | 0.75 | 3.3% |
Wow, very interesting. I will have to decide what to do. PPC, KING and BKE have fallen off the list. Not sure if Yahoo has changed how they treat special dividends. That is a short list to pick five from.
MFI Tracking
The March 2014 tracking portfolio just has a couple weeks to go. It is getting thrashed. As are the 4 following. Those five are up a mere 4% on average while the index is up 9%. Not what we're looking for. Probably helps explain why my May and August tranches are trailing by an average of 3.5%. But then the tracking portfolios September onward are leading by an average of 2 points.
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3 comments:
Marsh,
PPC, KING, BKE are still on my list as I go to Yahoo Historical Price and do "Dividends ONLY". The special dividend still show up.
I know that is more work, but for my book I would want to include these if I did not own King and Bke.
Thanks John. I do not disagree. It is very little extra work. By the way, I have embarked on a major revamp. I do not mentioned it much in my blog, but I really only started collecting dividend information in 2010. Before that date, I went through my stocks and flagged them as either a dividend stock or not from memory. I am now going back into 10Ks and yahoo finance and pulling actual historical dividends. I am finding there are some stocks I flagged as a dividend stock, but may have been below the 2.6% threshold and there are stocks in the other direction. So far it doesn't look material enough to change my views, the two pieces have largely washed each other out.
But it will give me the ability to refine my historical analysis, when complete, to look at differing cut off points than just 2.6%. It should also allow me, to a large extent, to look at stocks that issued a special dividend versus regular quarterly dividends.
Stay tuned, it is a fair amount of effort.
Marsh,
I hope you can do it little by little. From what I think I know you do not lose much performance on a +1.8% cut. But we do not really know.
I am thinking that if I don't have 10 stocks on 100m sort to include the DLX and Viab before moving to a 200 sort. Just thinking, but my rules for NOW is to always have 10 +2.4% stocks that I don't own.
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