Showing posts with label ASBPB. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ASBPB. Show all posts

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Of Wagging, Salivating Tongues

I'm getting nervous.

Why am I getting nervous?

Because the value of my portfolio keeps rising - I'm what you call a slightly negative investor.

The value of the portfolio is just over $ 509,000.00 and has climbed steadily since my incarceration ended at the end of May - from around $ 390,000.00.

It reached the half million mark at the beginning of the week and has put on nearly 20% in 2.5 months.

My finger is poised to sell but I just cant, yet, because nobody has been crazy enough to give me what I want.

I want to ditch the 10000 ASBPB shares I hold and FBU but think I can get more for these if I wait, and for some smaller holdings of others, BGR and HLG have done really well...350 plus %.

Starting to do well is FPH, well duh the dollar wasn't going to stay at that rate forever, it is the reason the stock is performing, not that the company is actually performing, as it has been for years.

Contact energy looks about to break of of its trading range of $5.30 - $5.50 and bout time to since it will be doing some sort of fine business in the countries heatwave/drought and this coming profit result should be a doozy - and it may be taken over by someone.

The WHS dropped into the green this week as I stepped back into the country after holiday - oh ditch the holiday moniker, seriously but it was up and I had one guy who took my advice to buy some last week, who did and he scored about 8 k - beat my 3k after about 5 years.

SKC is going up and up and up - notice a pattern there. Well it keeps reaching for the limit of the tower but it is one that apart from being up about 150% after 10 years and almost now practically free still owes me about 2 bucks per share.

Then there is FRE which has gone up about 90% but still bugs me that it has not gone further  - it will one day.

Then MFT always end with the good ones North of 120% and still looking like a winner.

What else can I say ?


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Friday, August 5, 2011

Share Price Alert: The Entire NZX

NZSX50 Chart NZSX10 Chart ASX200 Chart
Global Indices

At time of writing the NZX 50 stockmarket index is down 95 points or 2.80% after a toweling on the DOW last night and a rogering in Europe.

Most non market watchers find days like these terrifying but I like market jitters like this because I love getting bargains. It is the equivalent of boxing day sales before Christmas.

I am by nature a contrarian and like to buy as others are selling.

Everything on the NZX today is down with the 5 biggest drops from the Share Investor Portfolio in this order.

Goodman Fielder Ltd [GFF.NZX] 6.1%
ASB Preference Shares [ASBPB.NZX] 3.9%
Steel & Tube Ltd [STU.NZX] 3.7%
Ryman Healthcare Ltd [RYM.NZX] 3.7%
Fletcher Building Ltd [FBU.NZX] 3.2%

I would suggest that Monday might be an even better opportunity to have another look as sentiment on Wall Street doesn't look good as well as some important economic data out overnight on jobs looks likely to be negative.

I will be looking to make a move on Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd [FPH.NZX] after a good canning on the DOW, tomorrow NZ time. It is currently trading at $2.47, close to my target of $2.35.

Like we didn't see this all coming.

Share Price Alert Series

Contact Energy Ltd 4
The Warehouse Group Ltd 2
Contact Energy Ltd 3
Contact Energy Ltd 2
Xero Ltd 2
Pumpkin Patch Ltd 4
Pumpkin Patch Ltd 3
Hallenstein Glasson Holdings Ltd
Telecom New Zealand Ltd 4
Telecom New Zealand Ltd 3
Port of Tauranga Ltd
Freightways Ltd 3
Goodman Fielder Ltd 2
Freightways Ltd 2
Telecom New Zealand Ltd 2
Ryman Healthcare Ltd
Charlies Group Ltd
Fletcher Building Ltd 2
Contact Energy Ltd
Steel & Tube Ltd
Telecom New Zealand Ltd
New Zealand Stock Exchange Ltd
Mainfreight Ltd 2
The Warehouse Group Ltd
Pumpkin Patch Ltd 2
Hallenstein Glasson Holdings Ltd 2
Fletcher Building Ltd
Restaurant Brands Ltd
Mainfreight Ltd
Tourism Holdings
Goodman Fielder Ltd
Pumpkin Patch Ltd
Hallenstein Glasson Holdings Ltd
NZ Refining Ltd
Freightways Ltd
Xero Ltd


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Monday, June 20, 2011

Share Price Alert: ASB Preference Shares - A & B Class




ASBPA 1 Year Chart

With interest rates on the rise for lending and investing because of impending inflation and a flight to less risky cash investments like bank term investments the stocks ASB Capital No 1 Ltd [ASBPA.NZX] (1 year chart above)and ASB Capital No 2 Ltd [ASBPB.NZX](1 year chart below) might be worth a second glance.

These stocks offered by the ASB Bank basically mirror what the company offers for term investments plus an additional margin for taking a slight risk on any possible capital losses through sharemarket fluctuations.

These two stocks have both been punished in terms of capital losses with term investment rates basically below the current inflation rate when tax is removed with the "A" shares dipping below 70c in 2009 and the "B" shares below 60c in 2009 and trading at 66c in late March.




ASBPB 1 Year Chart


Both stocks were issued at a $1.00 face value 9 and 8 years ago and also carry imputation credits that make them even more attractive than term investments.

Over the last month or so a"A" shares have piled on 7c or 10% to currently trade 77c and "B" class shares up 8c or 12% to be currently trading at 75c.

These shares look set to approach their face value over the following year as interest rates rise and will probably breach their face value as they did when they were first issued and interest rates were high.

No time for patience here, get in while they are cheap.



Disc I own ASBPB shares in the Share Investor Portfolio




Share Price Alert Series


Xero Ltd 2
Pumpkin Patch Ltd 4
Pumpkin Patch Ltd 3
Hallenstein Glasson Holdings Ltd
Telecom New Zealand Ltd 4
Telecom New Zealand Ltd 3
Port of Tauranga Ltd
Freightways Ltd 3
Goodman Fielder Ltd 2
Freightways Ltd 2
Telecom New Zealand Ltd 2
Ryman Healthcare Ltd
Charlies Group Ltd
Fletcher Building Ltd 2
Contact Energy Ltd
Steel & Tube Ltd
Telecom New Zealand Ltd
New Zealand Stock Exchange Ltd
Mainfreight Ltd 2
The Warehouse Group Ltd
Pumpkin Patch Ltd 2
Hallenstein Glasson Holdings Ltd 2
Fletcher Building Ltd
Restaurant Brands Ltd
Mainfreight Ltd
Tourism Holdings
Goodman Fielder Ltd
Pumpkin Patch Ltd
Hallenstein Glasson Holdings Ltd
NZ Refining Ltd
Freightways Ltd
Xero Ltd


ASB Bank Pref Shares A @ Share Investor


Long Term View: ASB Capital Preference Shares (A)

Discuss ASBPA @ Share Investor Forum


ASB Bank Pref Shares B @ Share Investor

Long Term View: ASB Capital Preference Shares (B)

Discuss ASBPB @ Share Investor Forum


ASB Bank @ Share Investor


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c Share Investor 2011




Monday, September 6, 2010

Long Term View: ASB Capital Preference Shares (B)


In this series of posts I am going to be looking at stocks listed on the NZX in relation to their returns to shareholders over the life of their listing -what shareholders would now see in their back pockets if they had invested in the company IPO. The calculation of returns includes dividends and tax credits.

ASB Bank Pref shares A [ASBPB.NZX] has been a very poor investment for shareholders since its 2003 listing on the NZX at $NZ1 per share. With 27.66c in net dividends it gives (see NZX chart above) ASBPB a 7.95% return (see chart below for the share price percentage gain against the average of all NZX indexes - does not include dividends, tax credits and the share split in its calculation) and over the nearly 7 year listing of ASBPB an annual net return of 1.13 %.

This compares to a 9.28% annual return from the average of all NZX indexes.


Compare ASBPB Prefs to ASBPA Prefs



Disc I own ASBPB shares in the Share Investor Portfolio






Long Term View Series


ASB Capital Preference Shares (A)
Auckland International Airport
Air New Zealand
AMP Ltd
ANZ Banking Group Ltd
Briscoe Group Ltd
Cavalier Corporation Ltd
Comvita Ltd
Contact Energy Ltd
Delegats Group Ltd
EBOS Group Ltd
Fletcher Building Ltd
Fisher & Paykel Appliances
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare
Freightways Ltd
Goodman Fielder Ltd
Hallenstein Glasson Holdings Ltd
Hellaby Holdings Ltd
Infratil Ltd
Kirkcaldie & Stains Ltd
Kiwi Income Property Trust Ltd
Mainfreight Ltd
Michael Hill International Ltd
Metlifecare Ltd
Methven Ltd
Mowbray Collectables Ltd
NZ Oil & Gas Ltd
New Zealand Refining Ltd
New Zealand Stock Exchange Ltd
Nuplex Industries Ltd
PGG Wrightson Ltd
Port Of Tauranga Ltd
Postie Plus Group Ltd
Pumpkin Patch Ltd
Restaurant Brands Ltd
Ryman Healthcare Ltd
Sanford Ltd
Sealegs Corp Ltd
Scott Technology Ltd
Skellerup Ltd
Sky City Entertainment Group Ltd
Sky Network Television Ltd
Smiths City Group Ltd
Steel & Tube Ltd
Telecom NZ Ltd
Telstra Corp Ltd
Tourism Holdings Ltd
Trustpower Ltd
Turners Auctions Ltd
Turners & Growers Ltd
The Warehouse Group Ltd
Vector Ltd
Wakefield Health Ltd
Westpac Banking Group Ltd


ASB Bank Pref Shares B @ Share Investor


Discuss ASBPB @ Share Investor Forum





c Share Investor 2010