December 31, 2012 –
Welcome, young Skywalker, I have been expecting you. Currently I'm traveling home from my holiday trip while contemplating this past year. I thought I'd type up a blog post and let you know what's new before we get swept up by 2013. [more]
August 04, 2012 –
Hello there, little one!
Although I haven't posted in a while, I wanted to let you all know: I'm not dead. Not yet. Actually there's nothing wrong with me except laziness. I started this investment experiment about a year ago and I wanted to write some sort of year in review. Since I last posted, I've added to my shares of CVR Partners, LP (NYSE:UAN), Dominion Resources Inc (NYSE:D), Diageo (NYSE:DEO) and every month I invest in an ExxonMobil Corp (NYSE:XOM) DRiP.
Although I bought the first of these stocks a year ago, I figured this was as good a time as any to take a look back and see how things are going. The following is a snapshot of my current investments including dividends and brokerage commissions.
Aflac, +26.8%
Apple, +57.5%
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, +27.2%
Costco, +22.7%
CVR Partners, +17.1%
Diageo, +17.6%
Dominion Resources, +10%
ExxonMobil, +4.5%
Flower Foods, +15.4%
Terra Nitrogen Company, L.P., +64.1%
Vodafone, +8%
I'll leave you with a super-weak motivational speech my uncle gave me when I had to postpone my plans to attend college...
"This year we'll make enough money from the harvest and we can hire some more hands and you can go to the academy next year." [more]
March 09, 2012 –
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RELATED TICKERS: XOM
HarryCarysGhost once mentioned: [more]
March 03, 2012 –
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RELATED TICKERS: D
This month, I added to my position of Dominion (the commission is factored into the price per share)
2/21/2012 – Dominion Resources at $50.62 / share
There actually was no commission, just a two dollar fee because I purchased these shares directly from the company (you can even do it online!).
Here is the overall performance of each of my picks (with the change from last month in parenthesis)
Dominion, +6.7 (up 0.7%)
Aflac, +33.8% (down 1.3%)
Flower Foods, +6.6% (up 3.2%)
Costco, +8.5% (up 5.2%)
CVR Partners, +16.1% (down 14.8%)
Apple, +39.3% (up 22.5%)
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, +8.6% (up 1.7%)
Terra Nitrogen Company, L.P., +64.53% (up 32.7%)
Vodafone, -3.2% (up 5.5%)
ExxonMobil, +2.0% (up 3.5%)
Unfortunately I was unable to post anything in February. Although I didn't have time to post, one of my CAPS pitches did manage to inspire an article. My job has been kind of crazy recently but don't worry, I'm working on a post that I hope to get up in a week or two. I've also noticed, while reading my older posts, that some of the images I linked to have died. From now on, I plan to host all of my own images rather than link to them to make sure the links remain reliable.
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January 31, 2012 –
To nerds everywhere, I bid you Happy New Year! With the first month of the new year behind us, I feel that 2012 has started off on the right foot.
Here's what I bought this month (the commission is factored into the price per share):
1/10/2012 – Diageo at $86.39 / share
Here is the overall performance of each of my picks (with the change from last month in parenthesis)
Dominion, +6.0% (down 6.3%)
Aflac, +35.1% (up 13.8%)
Flower Foods, +3.4% (up 1.9%)
Costco, +3.3% (down 1.3%)
CVR Partners, +30.9% (up 22.4%)
Apple, +16.8% (up 13.2%)
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, +6.9% (up 5.4%)
Terra Nitrogen Company, L.P., +31.8% (up 14.9%)
Vodafone, -8.7% (down 3.7%)
ExxonMobil, -1.5% (down 1.5%)
In January, my CAPS rating has come back down to earth (60) and I managed to choke out two blog posts. One was about a tip I read about saving the scraps from your grocery card, which coaxed a couple of better tips from my readers. HarryCarysGhost revealed why he'll never be able to sneak up on anyone and truthisntstupid served up how to land a seven-bagger without paying brokerage fees. My other post was about why I'm bullish about Diageo. I twisted the words up a bit and managed to get my article syndicated on the Fool's blog network.
Bring on February! [more]
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