I'm going to kick off a series of articles about what drew me to the 15 stocks that I hold in my portfolio.
While it is interesting to know what different investors hold in their stock portfolio, it is clearly more intriguing as to why they made the decision to buy an individual stock in the first place.
Let me begin with the largest stock holding in my top draw, the often much maligned Sky City Entertainment[SKC.NZ] the Casino, Hotel and Cinema operator.
I have held this company since buying in 2002 and it has cost me just under $2 a share when the very generous dividend is accounted for.
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The main reason I purchased is the monopoly position that it holds in all the markets it operates in. The constant cash flow that this sort of business provides, even during tough economic conditions, is another quality that attracted my hard earned cash.
Initially, before I plunked my shekels down, I visited a couple of the company's casinos, talked to some middle management and harassed employees on the shop floor to see what sort of business it was.
Naturally there was both good and bad feedback but mostly it was positive stuff.
I made a few more visits to the company's main gaming floor in Auckland, New Zealand and after reading the prerequisite company financials, was convinced to put about NZ$135,000.00 on the table.
I came to the conclusion from my interactions with Sky City, that it was a pretty easy business to understand, a principle that Warren Buffett uses to gauge a possible company purchase, and there wasn't too much that management could do wrong with such a basic business. I was wrong about that, but that is another story for another time-a Buffett principle that escaped me at the time, look carefully at management when buying!
Would I still purchase Sky City today?
A good question stockmarket investors should all ask of ourselves about stocks in our portfolios.
While there is much that has gone wrong with the management of this company, some very bad decisions have clearly been made, cash is still flowing into the tills, the company rides out downturns in the economy well, and profit is there, albeit slowed considerably, I would indeed purchase at anything below 2 bucks.
Sky City @ Share Investor
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Double or Nothing: How Two Friends Risked It All to Buy One of Las Vegas' Legendary Casinos by Tom Breitling
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