The Share Investor Portfolio has been up and down over the last year or so and at times has been in negative territory since the October 2008 global stockmarket crash.
While I have been showing my readers what dividends I have added over the last year or so here, but I haven't given you an actual dollar value of the portfolio.
Here it is.
I will do this as a weekly series to give you short term investors a regular update and you long termers can also get a good idea how the portfolio is going in the months and years to come.
The current value is the net return and does not include substantial tax credits of approx $50000.00.
There is NZ $15660.03 in cash from dividends as yet unallocated to the portfolio.
Share Investor Portfolio
New Zealand Securities as at 14:26:17, Monday 11 October, 2010 (NZDT)
Looks like you use ASB to track your investments. ASB is annoying as you cant combine purchases. It should have only one line per security. It also only included capital gain, not dividend returns.
Also - The colour hasn't copied across so you cant see what has gone up and what has gone down.
You have to aggregate the positions, as I really do not see the point in doing it separately. You are adding to your existing positions not entering new positions, so ASB is silly to track them separately. Average fill price should be easy to calculate. If the individual entries are calculated separately they should also have the date of entry.
Another alternative is to import them in to Google docs and then embed the Google docs spreadsheet here.
anon: Dividends are not stock it is cash, so should not be shown in the one line as part of the returns of the stock.
SB, it is the best I can do with the knowledge I have. ASB software doesn't allow you to aggregate and auto calculate after you put dividends and other variables in.
Can you suggest an easy free online portfolio that I can use that will allow for dividends, splits, tax credits etc?
ShortBus - Dividends still form part of the return on a company. What is better, a company with 9% dividend and 1% growth or a company with 1% dividend and 9% growth.
The above will clearly favour the high growth/low dividend companies. However, the returns are not annualised so cant be compared anyway.
The 25085 SKC shares represents the net dividends I have received for that stock and not spent on more shares on that stock. It is the only way of showing this on the ASB Securites Portfolio software.
Looks like you use ASB to track your investments. ASB is annoying as you cant combine purchases. It should have only one line per security. It also only included capital gain, not dividend returns.
ReplyDeleteAlso - The colour hasn't copied across so you cant see what has gone up and what has gone down.
Hey thanks anon, yeah it is ASB and apparently this is an improved layout.
ReplyDeleteThanks to the tip on colour. I will see if I can change it manually.
That fixes it I think. Any other suggestions re layout will be appreciated.
ReplyDeleteYou have to aggregate the positions, as I really do not see the point in doing it separately. You are adding to your existing positions not entering new positions, so ASB is silly to track them separately. Average fill price should be easy to calculate. If the individual entries are calculated separately they should also have the date of entry.
ReplyDeleteAnother alternative is to import them in to Google docs and then embed the Google docs spreadsheet here.
anon: Dividends are not stock it is cash, so should not be shown in the one line as part of the returns of the stock.
SB, it is the best I can do with the knowledge I have. ASB software doesn't allow you to aggregate and auto calculate after you put dividends and other variables in.
ReplyDeleteCan you suggest an easy free online portfolio that I can use that will allow for dividends, splits, tax credits etc?
ShortBus - Dividends still form part of the return on a company. What is better, a company with 9% dividend and 1% growth or a company with 1% dividend and 9% growth.
ReplyDeleteThe above will clearly favour the high growth/low dividend companies. However, the returns are not annualised so cant be compared anyway.
Anon, I see my portfolio as a cash returner rather than a growth portfolio at the moment.
ReplyDeleteAny divs I intend to reinvest.
Of course stocks like PPL, MHI, FPH and RYM are growth stocks but at my buy levels they are also good income stocks.
The WHS, SKC, and AIA have to potential to become growth stocks again...
Hey nice portfolio, well done, just wondering when you mentioned 30% tax credit, how do you mean? do you get a tax credit from the IRD over dividents?
ReplyDeleteThe tax paid by the company on your behalf can be claimed back by the investor depending on what their income is and how they structure it.
ReplyDeleteI in effect get back the full 30%.
I think you are referring to imputation credits which is tax paid by companies and passed onto the share holders.
ReplyDeleteWhat I am more interested in is the number of shares you have received and appear to have paid nothing for them. In particular SKC 25,085 share.
Yes to your first point TWIG.
ReplyDeleteThe 25085 SKC shares represents the net dividends I have received for that stock and not spent on more shares on that stock. It is the only way of showing this on the ASB Securites Portfolio software.