Newest MFI Tracking Portfolio

11/25/2016 MFI Tracking Portfolio

Ok, I have set up a new tracking portfolio using the top 50 greater than $100m from the official screen.  In doing so, I did catch (blush) a mistake in my Dogs approach (it was not always looking back exactly a year) and I have fixed that mistake. It did not have a huge impact, but did increase the Dogs approach from about $238k to $246k.

Current Dogs

Stock	Initial Price	52 week low	Mkt Cap
VIAB	37.64	30.11	14,936
PBI	14.86	14.22	2,759
PDLI	2.54	2.51	420
GILD	75.44	71.39	99,732
GME	25.82	20.10	2,680

GILD, PBI and GME would make my Formula approach - so decent chance I'll get some dogs in January.

New Stocks

Here are stocks new to my tracking approach in past year.  I have not shown this to be a good indicator.

Stock	Initial Price	52 week low	Mkt Cap	New
AGTC	9.90	6.35	178.72	1
AWRE	5.85	2.81	132.39	1
MDCA	6.00	2.75	316.37	1
RGR	52.50	47.15	996.03	1
TRNC	12.88	5.45	469.03	1

It is interesting how far above the 52 week low some of these names are.  I have owned AWRE, RGR and TRNC (formerly Tribune) in the past.

Dividend Stocks

Here are the stocks on list with over a 2.6% yield.

Stock	Initial Price	52 week low	Mkt Cap	New	Yield
BKE	25.65	19.95	1,247	0	3.9%
BPT	21.35	11.29	457	0	12.7%
CA	31.78	25.18	13,130	0	3.2%
CSCO	30.09	22.46	150,330	0	3.5%
GME	25.82	20.10	2,680	0	5.7%
HPQ	15.18	8.91	25,882	0	3.5%
HRB	23.98	19.18	5,254	0	3.7%
MCFT	13.50	10.25	252	0	31.9%
PBI	14.86	14.22	2,759	0	5.0%
PDLI	2.54	2.51	420	0	7.9%
RGR	52.50	47.15	996	1	3.1%
SPOK	18.25	15.49	375	0	2.7%

Of course my formula approach drops down to 2.4% but market cap is > $600m.

Actually, this illustrates a problem of just using formulas and relying on Yahoo Finance, which is becoming less reliable.  PDLI announced they had stopped their dividends August 4th.  I will go back and retroactively pull them out of dividend pool. I try to fix these when I am aware of them.