$7.49 -0.01 (-0.13%)
11/6/2009 3:59 PM

The New Ireland Fund, Inc. (IRL)

CAPS Rating: 5 out of 5

A Closed-end fund that has incorporated stocks from Irish Firms.

Current Price $7.49 Mkt Cap $36.21M
Open $7.40 P/E Ratio 46.88
Prev. Close $7.50 Div. (Yield) 0.33 (4.40%)
Daily Range $7.40 - $7.51 Volume 10,691
52-Wk Range $3.22 - $9.24 Avg. Daily Vol. 38,000

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Top IRL Bull/Bear Pitches

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JJHBowers (67.27)
Submitted February 05, 2007

Can't be beat in Europe- lowest tax rate, highest birth rate (best demographics), and they speak ENGLISH! Great future, and this closed end fund approximates an EFT. Buy it now!

cjlee001 (83.54)
Submitted September 29, 2008

For those of you bad at geography, Ireland is part of the UK, you know, England. The same UK that has their share of subprime issues.

But yes, you are correct, for some reason Ireland is shielded from the rest of the world's financial… More

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Member Avatar 5SsmallcapDIV (69.84) Submitted: 8/6/2008 3:26:40 PM : Outperform Start Price: $10.07 IRL Score: -11.40

5 Star/Small cap/Pays dividend

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Member Avatar TheBadDad (65.57) Submitted: 3/26/2008 10:03:58 PM : Outperform Start Price: $12.99 IRL Score: -25.12

12% discount to NAV. Bad news (Irish banks bit by U.S. sub-prime holdings) seems behind it.

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Member Avatar Premium67 (38.07) Submitted: 6/25/2007 11:09:54 PM : Outperform Start Price: $16.57 IRL Score: -29.87

This pays a good dividend and is trading at almost a 12% discount to the NAV.

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Score Leader

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EBStroke (< 20) Score: +57.26

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renovo 99.35 3/30/2009 Outperform 5Y $3.96 +89.14% +37.71% +51.42
Merks4perks 78.05 12/10/2008 4/6/2009 Outperform 1Y $4.41 +69.84% +21.69% +48.15
dlomax77 86.68 4/7/2009 4/23/2009 Outperform 5Y $4.28 +75.00% +31.60% +43.40
airplane44 76.11 4/14/2009 Outperform 1Y $4.60 +62.83% +27.97% +34.86
cutchemist42 99.01 4/28/2009 Outperform 5Y $4.66 +60.73% +27.39% +33.34
tupperdai 79.60 9/24/2007 Underperform 1Y $15.84 -52.73% -26.36% +26.37
alannalilly 97.23 4/14/2008 Underperform NS $12.88 -41.86% -16.20% +25.66
Kbog < 20 12/14/2007 Underperform 3M $13.78 -45.64% -24.13% +21.52
fishbig 80.91 1/11/2008 Underperform 3M $12.92 -42.04% -20.63% +21.41
0xbeefcafe 94.94 10/31/2008 Outperform NS $5.74 +30.43% +13.87% +16.55

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