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Monday, August 22, 2011

Share Investor Portfolio: Value @ 19 August 2011

The Share Investor Portfolio is up over the last week after the US debt crises that kicked off a market rout on Friday 6 August with bounces over the last week due to Euro woes and rumours of bank stability. In the third week of August the portfolio was up 3.32% or $7879.37 on the August 12 update .

The rise was due in half to a series of profit results and attached dividends (see the results here - MHI, SKC, ASBPB, STU, FRE ) and half to a rise in the capital value of the portfolio.

For the first 32 weeks of 2011 the portfolio has increased by 9.86 % or $23550.44. Small rises right across the board - apart from one or two stocks - especially from shares making up the biggest part of the portfolio, were contributors. SKC was once again the biggest contributor to the rise.

The total of unspent dividends and interest in the bank as at 19 August from the 2010 - 2011 earnings years is $29684.44 at close of reporting season for 2010 and at the beginning of the 2011 2nd half reporting year. There are also approx $60000.00 in tax credits earned from the portfolio since it began in late 2002.

The Share Investor Portfolio has increased in value by 14.59% or $37307.58 since I began tracking it for this blog on October 11 2010

Track the Share Investor Portfolio 2 .

Share Investor Portfolio as at 17:30:00, Friday 19 August, 2011 (NZT)

Stock

Quantity

Cost price

Total cost

Market price

Market value

Change

AIA

2,000

$1.700

$3,400.00

$2.190

$4,380.00

$980.00

28.82%

AIA

2,000

$1.510

$3,020.00

$2.190

$4,380.00

$1,360.00

45.03%

AIA

558

$0.000

$0.00

$2.190

$1,222.02

AIA

754

$2.150

$1,621.10

$2.190

$1,651.26

$30.16

1.86%

ASBPB

3,109

$0.000

$0.00

$0.725

$2,254.03

ASBPB

6,891

$1.000

$6,891.00

$0.725

$4,995.98

$1,895.03

27.50%

BGR

619

$0.000

$0.00

$1.350

$835.65

BGR

2,381

$0.990

$2,357.19

$1.350

$3,214.35

$857.16

36.36%

FBU

303

$0.000

$0.00

$7.790

$2,360.37

FBU

811

$9.750

$7,907.25

$7.790

$6,317.69

$1,589.56

20.10%

FPH

3,000

$2.350

$7,050.00

$2.380

$7,140.00

$90.00

1.28%

FPH

1,365

$3.720

$5,077.80

$2.380

$3,248.70

$1,829.10

36.02%

FPH

635

$0.000

$0.00

$2.380

$1,511.30

FRE

6,405

$3.630

$23,250.15

$3.270

$20,944.35

$2,305.80

9.92%

FRE

2,226

$0.000

$0.00

$3.270

$7,279.02

GFF

586

$0.000

$0.00

$1.030

$603.58

GFF

1,414

$2.330

$3,294.62

$1.030

$1,456.42

$1,838.20

55.79%

HLG

299

$0.000

$0.00

$3.500

$1,046.50

HLG

701

$2.530

$1,773.53

$3.500

$2,453.50

$679.97

38.34%

KIP

763

$1.480

$1,129.24

$0.995

$759.19

$370.06

32.77%

KIP

237

$0.000

$0.00

$0.995

$235.82

MFT

1,000

$7.960

$7,960.00

$9.900

$9,900.00

$1,940.00

24.37%

MFT

1,838

$8.000

$14,704.00

$9.900

$18,196.20

$3,492.20

23.75%

MFT

1,375

$4.200

$5,775.00

$9.900

$13,612.50

$7,837.50

135.71%

MFT

787

$0.000

$0.00

$9.900

$7,791.30

MHI

1,646

$0.860

$1,415.56

$0.910

$1,497.86

$82.30

5.81%

MHI

7,000

$0.630

$4,410.00

$0.910

$6,370.00

$1,960.00

44.44%

MHI

209

$1.050

$219.45

$0.910

$190.19

$29.26

13.33%

MHI

1,145

$0.000

$0.00

$0.910

$1,041.95

PPG

$0.000

$0.00

$0.240

$7.44

PPG

1,500

$0.440

$660.00

$0.240

$360.00

$300.00

45.45%

PPG

1,004

$0.800

$803.20

$0.240

$240.96

$562.24

70.00%

PPL

1,000

$3.090

$3,090.00

$1.000

$1,000.00

$2,090.00

67.64%

PPL

1,000

$2.870

$2,870.00

$1.000

$1,000.00

$1,870.00

65.16%

PPL

939

$4.200

$3,943.80

$1.000

$939.00

$3,004.80

76.19%

PPL

975

$0.000

$0.00

$1.000

$975.00

PPL

1,086

$1.530

$1,661.58

$1.000

$1,086.00

$575.58

34.64%

RYM

555

$0.000

$0.00

$2.580

$1,431.90

RYM

4,445

$1.970

$8,756.65

$2.580

$11,468.10

$2,711.45

30.96%

SKC

5,750

$7.430

$42,722.50

$3.480

$20,010.00

$22,712.50

53.16%

SKC

2,750

$7.700

$21,175.00

$3.480

$9,570.00

$11,605.00

54.81%

SKC

1,431

$8.750

$12,521.25

$3.480

$4,979.88

$7,541.37

60.23%

SKC

781

$7.600

$5,935.60

$3.480

$2,717.88

$3,217.72

54.21%

SKC

26,203

$0.000

$0.00

$3.480

$91,186.44

STU

$0.000

$0.00

$2.500

$247.50

STU

301

$4.740

$1,426.74

$2.500

$752.50

$674.24

47.26%

WHS

4,500

$3.730

$16,785.00

$3.400

$15,300.00

$1,485.00

8.85%

WHS

6,979

$6.000

$41,874.00

$3.400

$23,728.60

$18,145.40

43.33%

WHS

$3.710

$55.65

$3.400

$51.00

$4.65

8.36%

WHS

3,506

$0.000

$0.00

$3.400

$11,920.40

26.48%

	Total cost	Market value	Change
	$265,536.86	$335,862.31	$70,325.45

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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Share Investor Portfolio 2: Value @ 19 August 2011

The Share Investor 2 Portfolio is a separate portfolio apart from the original Share Investor Portfolio and contains just one share, Contact Energy Ltd [CEN.NZX]. It will only have this one share in it and has a far shorter time frame than the original long-term portfolio that I started 8 years ago.

The portfolio was started July 7 with 9000 shares purchased at $5.34 at a total cost of $48,060.00 and $144.18 in brokerage.

After the 35th day of trading the portfolio was up by $630.00 or 1.31% on the August 12 update to be worth a total of $45180.00.

The portfolio is down 5.99% or $2880.00 since tracking began on July 7 2011.

Share Investor 2 Portfolio as at 17:30:00, Friday 19 August, 2011 (NZT)

Stock

Quantity

Cost price

Total cost

Market price

Market value

Change

CEN

9,000

$5.340

$48,060.00

$5.020

$45,180.00

$2,880.00

5.99%

	Total cost	Market value	Change
	$48,060.00	$45,180.00	$-2,880.00

Friday, August 19, 2011

Phil Goff: "Should I Stay or Should I go?"

In light of Phil Goff asking his parliamentary colleagues this week as to whether he should quit now or after his November election loss I dedicate this clash video to him.

c Darren Rickard 2011

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Contact Energy look set to gain customers

Contact Energy Ltd [CEN.NZX]finally looks like things are going its way. There are record cold temperatures across the nation and record power use. More retail customers of theirs will be using power and as the country's largest generator of electricity the company will be selling their product into the market to its competition at peak prices.

Add to this the little known fact to the consumer -it is bizarre that the company is not making much of a song and dance about it - that their power prices are now the second cheapest in the country after they introduced a 22% discount on August 1 for customers who pay promptly. Last month their power prices were the most expensive.

This comes after 3 years of losing customers, approx 50,000 off their peak, just last month alone they lost 8000 customers. They have been uncompetitive, given poor service and have been embroiled in public gaffs.

All this of course has had a big impact on the Contact share price (see 1 year chart below) From $5.80 in January shares have plumbed the depths well below 5 bucks over the last 2 weeks of market turmoil to finish trading yesterday at $5.02c. This is a fall of just over 15% in 2011 alone and off a 3 year high of just over 9 bucks.

1 year CEN Chart

If the marketing department get off their backsides and actually tell people they are now one of the cheapest electricity suppliers rather than one of the dearest the market will see a good spike in operational results for the month of August and CEN will do a reversal of fortune in terms of its share price.

We can expect the competition to react to Contacts discounting after the August stats come out in early September, if not sooner so the consumer could well be the winner as electricity companies fight for customer numbers and reduce their margins in the process.

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