Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Share Price Alert: Charlies Group Ltd



Charlies Group Ltd [CHA.NZX]hasn't been a favourite of mine since listing around 6 years ago. I have been critical of its money losing history.

They have thus far churned through millions of dollars of shareholder cash growing the business but have achieved a major turnaround into profit over the last year or so with their latest profit result showing good revenue growth on last year and a better profit result to boot.

They have scored some big contracts over the last 6 months with their product going into 750 Coles stores late last year and today announcing some of their range will be sitting in Woolworths supermarket shelves in Australia.

What can I say. I am impressed by the turnaround and I was wrong. It pains me to say that.

The news in October 2010 sent the stock up over 40% in a few days, (see 1 year chart above) from 11c to 16c and rose to around 22c in February where it has been trading between 20-22c since then. This rise in share price has been characterized by low trading volumes, with the notable exception of a big trading spike in late November, early December 2010 when CHA shares moved from 14c to 19c.

Today's news has sent shares up 4c or over 18% to close at 26c today. This beats a previous all-time high of 25c reached in early 2007. (see 5 year chart below)



Keep in mind that this stock has risen from 8-9c levels from a year ago, so its rise to 26c at close of business yesterday is a spectacular rise of approx 180% in less than a year.

If the company is able to get the same sort of leverage in sales that they have from their Coles deal, that reflected so well in their latest result, then the Woolies deal will probably see them power ahead in terms of increased revenue and hopefully profit in the subsequent two reporting periods.

If you have been looking to buy you may want to consider getting in before eager investors like me snap up shares or hold back for some bad news or overall market weakness.

It looks like this company might be a good long term investment after all.

About Charlie’s - From Charlies PR

Charlie’s Group Limited is a New Zealand owned company listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange and operating principally in the Australasian market. The company manufactures and markets a range of ‘not from concentrate’ fruit juices as well as smoothies and organic beverages. Principal brands are Charlie’s and Phoenix Organics. The business was established by friends Stefan Lepionka (CEO), Marc Ellis (director) and Simon Neal (distribution manager) in 1999 and floated on the New Zealand Stock Exchange in July 2005. Charlie’s operates in New Zealand and Australia and exports to territories in Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent.

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Monday, April 4, 2011

Share Investor Portfolio: Value @ 1 April 2011

The Share Investor Portfolio was up strongly in the last week of March/early April. The portfolio was up by 2.38% or $6421.86 on the March 28 update . For the first 13 weeks of 2011 the portfolio has increased by 7.98% or $20400.63 . This weeks rise was due, primarily, to a 8c rise in SKC, 21c rise in MFT and an 8c rise in WHS, with a wide range of other smaller variations up and down across the portfolio.

The total of unspent dividends and interest in the bank from the 2010 - 2011 earnings years is $23479.21 at close of reporting season for 2010 and partway through the 2011 year. There are also approx $50000.00 in tax credits earned from the portfolio since it began in late 2002.


Share Investor Portfolio as at 17:30:00, Friday 01 April, 2011 (NZDT)

Stock
Quantity
Cost price
Total cost
Market price
Market value
Change
%
AIA

2,000 $1.700 $3,400.00 $2.225 $4,450.00 $1,050.00 30.88%
AIA

2,000 $1.510 $3,020.00 $2.225 $4,450.00 $1,430.00 47.35%
AIA

558 $0.000 $0.00 $2.225 $1,241.55 $1,241.55
AIA

754 $2.150 $1,621.10 $2.225 $1,677.65 $56.55 3.49%
ASBPB

3,027 $0.000 $0.00 $0.680 $2,058.36 $2,058.36
ASBPB

6,973 $1.000 $6,973.00 $0.680 $4,741.64 $2,231.36 32.00%
BGR

619 $0.000 $0.00 $1.320 $817.08 $817.08
BGR

2,381 $0.990 $2,357.19 $1.320 $3,142.92 $785.73 33.33%
FBU

284 $0.000 $0.00 $9.340 $2,652.56 $2,652.56
FBU

830 $9.750 $8,092.50 $9.340 $7,752.20 $340.30 4.21%
FPH

3,000 $2.350 $7,050.00 $3.140 $9,420.00 $2,370.00 33.62%
FPH

541 $0.000 $0.00 $3.140 $1,698.74 $1,698.74
FPH

1,459 $3.720 $5,427.48 $3.140 $4,581.26 $846.22 15.59%
FRE

2,054 $0.000 $0.00 $3.240 $6,654.96 $6,654.96
FRE

6,577 $3.630 $23,874.51 $3.240 $21,309.48 $2,565.03 10.74%
GFF

586 $0.000 $0.00 $1.660 $972.76 $972.76
GFF

1,414 $2.330 $3,294.62 $1.660 $2,347.24 $947.38 28.76%
HLG

299 $0.000 $0.00 $3.770 $1,127.23 $1,127.23
HLG

701 $2.530 $1,773.53 $3.770 $2,642.77 $869.24 49.01%
KIP

190 $0.000 $0.00 $1.000 $190.00 $190.00
KIP

810 $1.480 $1,198.80 $1.000 $810.00 $388.80 32.43%
MFT

1,000 $7.960 $7,960.00 $8.950 $8,950.00 $990.00 12.44%
MFT

1,838 $8.000 $14,704.00 $8.950 $16,450.10 $1,746.10 11.88%
MFT

657 $0.000 $0.00 $8.950 $5,880.15 $5,880.15
MFT

1,505 $4.200 $6,321.00 $8.950 $13,469.75 $7,148.75 113.10%
MHI

1,646 $0.860 $1,415.56 $0.880 $1,448.48 $32.92 2.33%
MHI

7,000 $0.630 $4,410.00 $0.880 $6,160.00 $1,750.00 39.68%
MHI

494 $1.050 $518.70 $0.880 $434.72 $83.98 16.19%
MHI

860 $0.000 $0.00 $0.880 $756.80 $756.80
PPG

31 $0.000 $0.00 $0.260 $8.06 $8.06
PPG

1,500 $0.440 $660.00 $0.260 $390.00 $270.00 40.91%
PPG

1,004 $0.800 $803.20 $0.260 $261.04 $542.16 67.50%
PPL

1,000 $3.090 $3,090.00 $1.330 $1,330.00 $1,760.00 56.96%
PPL

1,000 $2.870 $2,870.00 $1.330 $1,330.00 $1,540.00 53.66%
PPL

939 $4.200 $3,943.80 $1.330 $1,248.87 $2,694.93 68.33%
PPL

975 $0.000 $0.00 $1.330 $1,296.75 $1,296.75
PPL

1,086 $1.530 $1,661.58 $1.330 $1,444.38 $217.20 13.07%
RYM

459 $0.000 $0.00 $2.390 $1,097.01 $1,097.01
RYM

4,586 $1.970 $9,034.42 $2.390 $10,960.54 $1,926.12 21.32%
SKC

5,750 $7.430 $42,722.50 $3.420 $19,665.00 $23,057.50 53.97%
SKC

1,000 $7.600 $7,600.00 $3.420 $3,420.00 $4,180.00 55.00%
SKC

2,750 $7.700 $21,175.00 $3.420 $9,405.00 $11,770.00 55.58%
SKC

1,431 $8.750 $12,521.25 $3.420 $4,894.02 $7,627.23 60.91%
SKC

272 $4.720 $1,283.84 $3.420 $930.24 $353.60 27.54%
SKC

25,712 $0.000 $0.00 $3.420 $87,935.04 $87,935.04
STU

78 $0.000 $0.00 $2.650 $206.70 $206.70
STU

303 $4.740 $1,436.22 $2.650 $802.95 $633.27 44.09%
WHS

4,500 $3.730 $16,785.00 $3.510 $15,795.00 $990.00 5.90%
WHS

6,979 $6.000 $41,874.00 $3.510 $24,496.29 $17,377.71 41.50%
WHS

15 $3.710 $55.65 $3.510 $52.65 $3.00 5.39%
WHS

3,506 $0.000 $0.00 $3.510 $12,306.06 $12,306.06

24.60%


Total cost Market value Change

$270,928.45 $337,564.00 $66,635.55



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Friday, April 1, 2011

Share Investor Buying One Million Postie Plus Shares

I have stoically held Postie Plus Ltd [PPG.NZX] shares now for 3-4 years.

I own 2540 shares.

PPG shares have paid me a dividend of about 20 bucks over those years and are now worth a total of $709.80c, a drop of around 50% from the total purchase price of $1463.20.

To say then that it is a bad investment is a major understatement. It is the investment equivalent of backing Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen in a movie and expecting them to show up at work every day, and sober no less.

So it is a loser plain and simple and should really have no place in my portfolio one would think?

Well, initially I thought it was such a small part of the overall portfolio I would sell and put it behind me but I hate to lose money but I know that some time in the future when management get their proverbial together and actually make some money somebody is actually going to make me a much better offer than 26c per share.

Well, I am thinking if Jan Cameron can take a big stake in the company then this boy can flash a few shekels around and get a bigger stake in the expectation that the share price will at least double.

With this in mind I am going to splash out $259339.60 to buy 997460 PPG shares to take my stake to 1 million shares. I am going to sell the whole Share Investor Portfolio to make this transaction happen.

The remaining unspent funds I am going to buy Allied Farmers Ltd [ALF.NZX] shares with and maybe a little gold.

I would appreciate any feedback on this.


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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Share Price Alert: Freightways Ltd 2



As you can tell from the 1 year Freightways Ltd [FRE.NZX] chart above the share price of the company hasn't moved much in the last year. The stock is well off $2.62c lows reached in July 2010 and has been an erratic beast for the last year.

Like most other NZX stocks over the last year it is up on more positive economic sentiment but the reason why I have included it in today's post is that the stock has put on almost 10% in value over the last 2 weeks. The stock has risen from just over 3 bucks to close at $3.28 yesterday.

This is on no material news at all in March but on a big spike in trading at the beginning of the month. Who was buying on that day I don't know but the stock has rallied over 8% post that trading day.

The positive result out in mid February had an impact on share price at the time but the share price drifted down through the first part of March.

$3.30 seems to be the price ceiling for this stock of late and I think investors might want to wait if they wanted to add this stock to the portfolio because it could come back as the economy bites again mid Winter on this bellweather company.

Buy on weakness.

Disc I own FRE shares in the Share Investor Portfolio


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