Buy For Yield!!

Like some of my stocks have gone up WAY out of proportion to their "importance" but one stock that I recently said sell I have to now give a buy because it has come down in price for one reason and that is because of the Tiwai Point fiasco. 

It came down from the early 9's to the mid 6's and dropping. 

i wouldn't be at all surprised to see it cross the ditch to land up in the high 5's.

Paying almost 6% net at current prices - not forecast to lower this years payout - this one is a steal right now. 

You could get it cheaper but history says you might not - especially given today's low interest rates.

For seasoned short term sellers and long term holders.



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Long Term View: Contact Energy Ltd

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.

Contact Energy Ltd [CEN.NZ] has been good to its shareholders in terms of returns since its NZX listing in 1999 at NZ$3.10. With NZ$2.46 cents in net dividends (see chart above) paid and another 33% of that figure gained for those eligible for associated tax credits, a slightly less than 200% return (see chart below for the share price percentage gain against the average of all NZX indexes) over the 11 year listing gives an annual net return of just over 18%.

This is more than double than the return from the average of all NZX indexes.




Long Term View Series

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Contact Energy Ltd
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