My Stock Holdings (March 2016)

After a long wait, I can finally sit down and count my gains for the month of March! With the Singapore stock market in the doldrums for the first two months, there were finally some rebound even though I did not enter anything prior to it. However, as I also did not let go of any stock, it meant my portfolio clawed back some gains.

This also highlighted how investing is actually advantageous to constant trading. According to this article, missing just the best ten days of S&P in the period between 1993-2013 will cost the investor a 3.8% drop in annualized returns. While many will argue that trading is better as one can let go of stocks at the highest and buyback at a lower point, I can assuredly say that I neither have the skills nor the time. Hence, as a student and eventually a working adult, passive investing will still be the way to go.

On the matter of dividends, I received a total of $227.42 for the month of March. This amount was disbursed from HPH Trust, SingPost and Karin Tech. Hence for the first three months, the total dividends received comes up to $261.57, a little over a quarter of my dividend goal this year.

Also, I had bought GLP on 31 Mar 2016 for a cost of $1.955. A little high, but through the average of valuation methods which I may subsequently write about,  the fair value price of GLP I came up with was actually $2.42. Coupled with GIC being the majority shareholder, I feel that there is some merit to the purchase of GLP. With the addition of GLP, the breakdown of my portfolio is shown below. Let's hope 2016 is a good year for all in the stock market =)

My Stock Holdings (February 2016)

Whew, busy month with Design Project, FYP Presentation, projects, tutorials, midterms. For record sake's, I have come online to record this short entry of my stock holdings in February. Whilst the market condition is still bad, there is a restoration of stability and hence marginal growth.

In the month of February, Keppel Reit has declared a dividend of $0.0168 per share. I chose to reinvest this dividend through the DRP. While filling up the form, I realised that I can allocate the shares I own to either 1) Receive the cash dividend OR 2) Receive new shares. Knowing this, I can allocate some of my share to receive cash dividend while still receiving the same number of new shares. This is possible because there can be no shares lower than 1 and is thus rounded down. Might as well use this spare shares to receive the cash dividend! The amount is not huge, but I hate to give away free money.

Therefore, the first dividend I received this year will be $34.15. The start to my $1000 dividend aim for this year. Below is my stock holdings at the end of February. Noticeably, HPH Trust has fallen in overall value to stand below Keppel Reit.

PS: I finally found a job!

My Stock Holdings (January 2016)

Below is my portfolio distribution for the first month of 2016. Here's to a better investing future for the rest of the year! 

From the start of this year till end of January, the main movement was me selling Bank of Ireland in favor of Karin Tech. The sale of Bank of Ireland was triggered by the disappointing lack of positive push to the stock. Though the economy for Ireland and Europe had been improving for a while now, with stable dividend on the way, it had not translated into positive movement for the stock. The premise of me buying Bank of Ireland back in 2014 was based on the improving economy in Ireland as well as the improving of the bank's balance sheet. Both events happened without any significant price increase. Hence by referring to my buying motivation, I had realised holding the stock by this point, meaningless. This also serves as a good lesson for readers out there that when buying stocks, remember to write down your reasons for writing it. Periodically review it to see that the reasons are still valid and if the reasons are not valid anymore, consider selling it. 

Following the previous post about Karin Tech, I have decided to add the stock into my portfolio for the strength of management, resilient earning power, advantageous foreign exchange and good dividend. However, from the announcement from the company on Wednesday, I might have misjudged the strength of the business itself. Profits from Karin Tech plunged approximately 80% due to softening consumer electronics product. I had reservations about that section of business due to the low economic moat, but I did not expect it to drop so much. Nevertheless, a dividend of 0.05 HKD translate to a half year dividend yield of 3%. This is sufficient for me to consider holding it for longer periods of time. A warning to any investors though, the stock had fallen below the 3-year low of $0.285. Hence, a short term investor may have problem holding it. 

HPH Trust has also announced their results recently with a drop of dividend. A constant worry of mine is the huge debt of HPH Trust. Though HPH Trust has good dividends in the past years, the stock price drops along with the dividend and I wonder if the dividends/business is sustainable in the long year. I will be reviewing this stock with more spare time. 

SingPost announced marginal growth in profit despite higher revenue. It is really frustrating that profit does not grow proportionally with revenue. Logistics can be a lower margin business. However, having waited over 2 years for profit catch up, it does not appear to be happening. Management guided that "transformation" is finalizing and it is time to reap its fruits of labor. With the departure of Wolfgang Baier, I really wonder how the company is going to fare in the future. If not for my wonderful entry price, I may have sold this stock already. Perhaps I sound salty, but the downgrade from OCBC is infuriating. Within a quarter, the bank has conveniently slashed $0.82 off the target price of SingPost. While details has been lacking for the justification of the new TP, I find it unbelievable that the cut is so much within a quarter. Makes me wonder do the research house just see.... "heyyyy, the current trades so far from our TP. I think it's time to cut it nearer to current price to stay relevant." Also, I don't see eye to eye with people stating that dividend has increased from 1.25 cents to 1.5 cents. This is because it had been declared by SingPost since 1 year ago and should have been factored into stock price long ago. Don't mislead potential investors.

-End of whinings-

With the removal of Bank of Ireland, my portfolio has transformed into a full dividend machine and I hope I can meet my dividend target this year. The Year of Monkey should be good to people born in the Year of Goat and I hope it is true! So Happy Chinese New Year all! Have a prosperous year ahead!!

My Stock Holdings (December) & Happy New Year 2016!

2015 stock market closed without a bang, neither a plunge. But it's undoubtedly a bad fairly lousy year. Starting the year at 3370.59 and ending it at 2893.19, STI dropped 14.16% excluding dividends. Oil price had bottomed to a 11-year low and does not seem to be recovering any time soon. Relevant companies in the oil industries had taken a hit, in particular Keppel Corp and SembCorp.

In my own portfolio, SingPost dropped almost 8% partly because of its CEO's departure and corporate governance problems. In my previous posts on SingPost, I mentioned how much I admired Wolfgang Baier's leadership in transforming SingPost. Now that he is actually gone, a closer watch on SingPost's performance in e-Commerce will be warranted.

Consistently under-performing stocks in my portfolio will also be reviewed soon. (once I submit my FYP report) These stocks actually include Bank of Ireland (BKIR) and HPH Trust. Since buying them almost 2 years back, they had returned almost zero returns. In fact, accounting for inflation and further brokerage fees and foreign custody fees, they were probably negative returns. In the long term, I am pessimistic about HPH Trust since there is little impetus for the share price. Management guidance of allowing dividend payout to follow cash flow should further compress dividend yield. For Bank of Ireland, there should be a slow recovery of its business towards declaring dividend late 2016 or early 2017. However, holding BKIR incurs foreign custody fee at POEMS and it is very vexing. Given the time, I would love to assess whether switching out BKIR and HPH Trust are preferable. (using capital budgeting concepts I learnt in FIN2004X!)

Rounding the "My Stock Holdings" posts for the year, below is the distribution of my portfolio at the end of December.

I received $150 from k1 Ventures through its capital reduction exercise. Adding it all up for the year, I had received $863.19 in 2015!

Since I will be working in mid-2016, I shall aim to achieve $1000 worth of dividend in 2016! This means putting some portion of salary into the stock market, maybe through dollar-cost averaging of STI ETF! Lastly, I shall write another post regarding my investing performance for 2015 as I started my records on 13 January of last year. Included will be breakdown of my Buys and Sells etc. Since I have not sat down to look at my records, writing that post is equally exciting for me!

Once again, Happy New Year and here's wishing everyone out there a prosperous and joyous year ahead! HUAT AH!

My Stock Holdings (November)

November brought down prices of a lot of my stocks, most notably Singapore Post and ST Engineering. I would probably not average down any time soon unless capitulation takes place. At the meantime, their dividends will keep me satisfied. 

I had also bought k1 Ventures at a price of $0.20 on 10 November. This was prior to the capital reduction exercise conducted by the company, in which it gave out $0.015/share to shareholders. k1 Ventures is a investment company and has a great track record of delivering returns to shareholders. It is a bit of a pity that I had noticed this company so late. Between 30 October 2013 to 29 January of this year, the company had return $0.11 of dividends. That's 50% of the price I paid, excluding any capital gains! A risk involved in buying the stock at such a late stage is that most of the monies made from divestment gains had already been given out, hence returns may not be as great as before. Future investments made by k1 Ventures may not be as successful but given the track record, I am willing to place a small amount of money with them in hope of reaping a good returns. However, writing on hindsight with the price standing at $0.183 now, it is unnerving that the stock seem to drop with everything I might touch. The opposite of Midas Touch, perhaps the market is currently not optimal for new investments despite good fundamentals. 

The pie chart shows the current distribution in my portfolio. In the month of November, I received dividends from Keppel Reit and Singpost. Hence the dividends I had received from start of the year to date is $713.19. 

Gordon Growth Model on Singapore Post (S08.SI)

Singapore Post (S08.SI) is Singapore's postal service provider for over 150 years. To combat the trend of declining mail volume, the company had been diversifying into e-Commerce business. This was done primarily through acquisition of e-Commerce related companies like TradeGlobal and logistics provider like Jagged Peak.

Currently at a closing price of $1.80, Singapore Post has a market capitalisation of $3.88B and annual dividend of 7 cents. In this post, we shall attempt to gauge what is an appropriate valuation of Singpost using one of the valuation methods I learnt in school.

Gordon Growth Model

In earlier posts I used to value stocks, I projected EPS growth and applied suitable P/E to arrive at a value expected in the future. A new method I've actually learnt in my finance class in school is actually the Gordon Growth Model. Basically in the model, the intrinsic value of an asset is determined by the size and timing of all future cash flows, discounted to the present value using the asset's required rate of return. 

Hence, for a stock valuation, the future dividends of the stocks are discounted to the present to get the estimated stock price it should be today. 

Using Gordon Growth Model, the formula for a firm paying constant dividends is: 

Share Price = Constant Dividend / Discount Rate

Another scenario which a firm paying a constant dividend growth, and the equation is:

Share Price = Expected Dividend in a Year's Time / (Discount Rate - Expected Dividend Growth)

The Discount Rate we are talking about here is actually gotten using the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and the equation goes like this:

Discount Rate = Risk-free Rate + Beta (Market's Rate of Return - Risk-free Rate)

Now we can start hunting values to fit into the CAPM equation. For risk-free rate, we can refer to the yield of Singapore's 10-year government bond, which currently stands at 2.47%. For market's return, we can refer to returns generated by STI ETF since inception in April 2002. The total annual return inclusive of reinvested dividend is 7.21%. Beta of Singapore Post can be found in Reuters and it is at 0.52. Substitute them all into the CAPM equation and the discount rate equals to 4.93%.

Which Dividend Model and Value?

To be conservative, the constant dividend model should be chosen. This is based on the dividend history where SingPost maintained a constant 6.25 cents dividend for 8 straight years. With the recent dividend at 7 cents combined with a discount rate of 4.93% = 0.0493, the expected share price actually comes up to $1.42. This is a far cry from the current $1.80. 

However, if you are actually optimistic about the dividends from Singpost, you can try estimating the share price using the dividend growth model. Since dividend did actually grow by 12% after 8 years, one can conservatively approximate that dividend grow by 1% annually. Using the constant dividend growth formula, the share price will increase to $1.80. This is practically the current price. 

Based on these two sets of share prices, one can conclude that SingPost is actually overpriced to fairly priced. In my opinion, with SingPost's acquisition spree recently, it is safer to guide for constant dividend since cash flow will be tighter. 

My Stock Holdings (October)

Student life is killing me. At my last year of study, who knew things would be so tough. Final Year Projects, meetings upon meetings. Presentations and presentations. Deadlines and more deadlines. Nevertheless for my own sake and maybe to some extent yours, here's my holdings in October 2015.

No change in holdings but it seems that the market is doing well for the last month.

There are no dividends issued for the month of October, therefore it stands at $616.49. 

A number of investment activities in the upcoming month:
Number one is to ballot for some IPO shares of Jumbo. A review of the IPO can be found in Mr IPO's website. I almost always ballot for IPO to sell on the first day unless its a very compelling business. Jumbo does not look to be the exception but I think Jumbo can open at least above $0.30. With only 2 million shares for public subscription, hope is not high to get the shares.

Number two is to indicate to opt for Keppel Reit's dividend in form of shares. I will explain this scheme/decision in the next post, hopefully before the next monthly report.

My Stock Holdings (September)

Have been busy with school work this month due to Final Year Project and job-finding (holy shit!) hence not much time to update. 

I did buy Keppel Reit at $0.945 on 2 September as part of my income stocks. Also, dividends received in the month of September include $50 from ST Engineering and $86.05 from HPH Trust. 

Dividends Year-to-Date: $616.49

My Stock Holdings (August)

Portfolio at the end of August:

Note that it's a JPEG because I gave up using Google Sheets. Google keep republishing my charts although I unchecked that option. That is also why I deleted all my previous charts as it was overwritten.

So this month was quite a ride and my portfolio lost a value of $1000. Nothing to sweat about as I'm going for the long-term and not short term volatility. Looking forward, I really hope to buy in ST Engineering on the cheap especially since it had formed a bottom. Straco is really good for averaging down since I have only a small stake in it.

I'm also looking at Reits, in particular K-Reits and possibly Soilbuild Reits. We will see what Singapore market can offer.


In the dividend department, I received an additional $67.50 from Singapore Post.

Dividends Year-to-Date: $480.44

My Stock Holdings (July)

Bought Straco at $0.935 as the buy and sell price ($1) was at a huge difference. I had already known the good fundamentals that Straco possessed hence I casually queued at the buy price. Take a look at the EPS growth of Straco over the years since IPO. The CAGR of its EPS is calculated to be 33.08%.

Input that CAGR into the Future Value Calculator together with present value of 4.45cents (current full year EPS), you get an EPS value of $0.1857 in 5 years.

With a low P/E of 8, the stock price can be valued at $1.485 in 5 years. At historical P/E of 21.68 ( from POEMS Stocks Analytics), the stock price can be as high as $4.025.

The exact calculation method can be found here in my blog.


Overall portfolio for July is as follows:

Singapore Post (S08.SI)

Sustainability of dividend

I like dividend stocks. The money is better in my pocket and tangible rather than getting stuck in the company balance sheet. That is the reason why I like Singpost so much. Having bought Singpost at $0.98 and yielding 6.25c dividend then, it was giving me 6.37% dividend yield. Recently, management raised dividend to 7c, amounting to 7.14% yield. While I welcome the dividend bump, I worry that it may not be sustainable. Many companies spam lots of dividend only to abruptly stop the flow of money when the cash pile depletes.

I've compiled the changes in the cash pile of Singpost over the years and displayed it in the chart below.



As one can see, there is no definite pattern in the change of cash positions year to year. However, it can be seen that the data is skewed towards net increase. Even it out over the years, Singpost has actually increased its cash pile despite giving generous dividends. Increasing yearly dividend by 0.75c will only increase cash demand to the tune of $16.1m (based on outstanding shares of 2,146,774,225). That is less than 10% of the net cash increase during the latest financial year. Therefore, I would conclude barring unforeseen circumstance, Singpost is in good position to service that additional dividend payout.

P/E and P/B valuation

For the full year ended 2014, the EPS was 6.849c. Based on the price of $1.90, Singpost currently has a P/E of 27.7. The P/E is admittedly on the high side as I am more comfortable with stocks with P/E below 20. 

Net asset value per share was 68.40c. P/B is 2.78. Similarly I'm usually not comfortable with P/B value above 1. When trawling the market for gems, I will look for P/B < 1 for safety margin and also for bargain. 

From P/E and P/B valuation point of view, Singpost is indeed overvalued. A P/E of 27 is usually accorded to company with growth potential. Even though Singpost increased its revenue by 12% for the whole year, its underlying net profit only increased by 5.2%. This can be attributed to the low profit margin associated with the Logistics business Singpost is diversifying into. Mail segment is stagnating for a few years but is sadly, the cash cow of Singpost. Can such a high share price justify the high revenue growth but low bottomline growth of Singpost? 

I would hold the stock myself since I bought it low and yield from my capital outlay is good. However, looking at valuations, Singpost is currently overpriced and there are better dividend yielding stocks out there.

Acquisitions and Disposals

In times of boom, companies had been known to go on an acquisition spree only to find that they had overpaid. Singpost, in its bid to diversify from its traditional mail business, had gone through a restructuring. The restructuring included acquisitions of logistics company and disposals of some traditional businesses, together with joint ventures and investments from Alibaba. I'm mainly concerned with the pace of acquisitions and the price that the management paid for the companies. Here's the rundown of the acquisitions and disposals Singpost did for the past year. 

Acquisitions

• The Store House1
• Paid S$121,000 for 75% of shares with net tangible asset last recorded as S$11,000
• F.S Mackenzie2
• Consideration up to S$14.8m for entire paid up share capital
• Net asset value was S$5.4m 
• Couriers Please Holdings3
• Acquisition at S$105m with prior net tangible asset recorded at roughly S$3m
• From the change in net profit after acquisition, it seems that Couriers Please Holdings added $9,417,000 to the net profit of Singpost (if assumption is correct, the P/E at which Singpost paid for Couriers Please seems reasonable)
• Famous Pacific Shipping4
• 90% holdings for NZ$3.6m with potential consideration up to NZ$8m because of potential earn-out consideration (don't really know what earn-out consideration is)
• Net asset value is NZ$816,104
• Hubbed Holdings5
• Quantium Solutions (Australia) acquired 30% of Hubbed Holdings for S$4.6m
• Quantium will get 5% more shareholdings if some pre-determined performance benchmark not met. If performance met, Quantium will pay an extra S$1.06m
• Net asset value of Hubbed Holdings is roughly S$1m 

Disposals

• Novation Solutions & DataPost (HK)6
• Entirely disposed of both assets for $24,388,951
• Net tangible asset recorded as $19,214,000
• DataPost Pte Ltd7
• Sold 90% of shares for $39,299,511
• Net tangible asset was recorded as $30,690,000 

I see that what Singpost paid was consistently much higher than the net asset value the acquired company possessed. However, I also feel that book value of company is not a good gauge for valuation the companies. Singpost itself is valued at nearly 3x P/B. Instead, the EPS of the company would be a better guide to see value. I will appreciate announcements to be like that of Couriers Please where impacts to net profits were shown. Looking at the announcement details, it would seem Singpost paid a reasonable price for Couriers Please and I would hope to extrapolate it to the other acquisitions. 

With the exception of Couriers Please, the other acquisitions were relatively small and should not impact Singpost greatly if it was a bad investment. Furthermore, the capital expenditure for acqusitions is supported by disposals of companies whose considerations were significant. 

From what I heard at Singpost's AGM, the M&A actions are not likely to stop just yet and there are more to come. Chairman was very supportive of the director that oversees M&A.

Earnings

As mentioned at the AGM, revenue rose 12% to the highest ever at S$920m. Underlying net profit similarly rose 5.2% to S$157m, highest ever.  I am disappointed that profit has not kept up with the growth of revenue. This was actually mentioned at the AGM with one lady pointing out that net profit actually decreased. CEO of Singpost reasoned forcefully that in the process of transforming Singpost, there were many charges that cut into profits. They had to strip them out to show that the core businesses were actually doing well. 

What was impressive about CEO Wolfgang Baier, was that he acknowledged the Mail business of Singpost was declining and never going back. 150 years of good business, it's not going to improve. Instead, Singpost had to transform to maintain its competitiveness. I liked his pragmatism and honesty. That is how problems get solved. Many management refused to acknowledge problems and refuse to change or improve. It was my first time attending an AGM and I was really impressed with the management, replying tough questions cordially and directly.

Conclusion

My confidence with Singpost remains strong especially after witnessing the strength of the management. On the day of AGM, it was announced that Alibaba invested a further S$279m in Singpost. Chairman kept reiterating that Alibaba was a tough investor to satisfy. Given that Alibaba had given Singpost their stamp of approval, I will likewise trust my investment in Singpost. 

I will continue monitoring the growth of profit along with growth of revenue. It has been almost 2 years where profit growth had disappointed me. Perhaps at some point, I will realise Singpost is not going to be as profitable as before, but the time is not now. 

Since buying Singpost at 2012, the dividends had paid almost 20% of my initial investment. Hopefully I will hold it till the stock pays itself. While I am not going to sell my holdings anytime soon, I think ultimately at $1.90, Singpost is overvalued and not a value buy for buyers. Dividend yield stands at 3.7% and while this is respectable, there are better companies out there that provides better yield and growth opportunities. Hence, people looking at Singpost, just pray it may drop. I may also increase my shareholdings if it ever drop low enough! (at least 5% div yield). 

1. http://infopub.sgx.com/FileOpen/SGX_Ann.ashx?App=Announcement&FileID=307340

2. http://infopub.sgx.com/FileOpen/SGXNET_Ann.ashx?App=Announcement&FileID=305964

3. http://infopub.sgx.com/FileOpen/SGXAnn.ashx?App=Announcement&FileID=326908

4. http://infopub.sgx.com/FileOpen/SGXAnnc.ashx?App=Announcement&FileID=331404

5. http://infopub.sgx.com/FileOpen/SGX_Ann.ashx?App=Announcement&FileID=356240

6. http://infopub.sgx.com/FileOpen/SGXAnn.ashx?App=Announcement&FileID=352614

7. http://infopub.sgx.com/FileOpen/SGX_Ann.ashx?App=Announcement&FileID=356716

My Stock Holdings (June)

June has been a busy period for me as I was busy packing stuff to go back to Singapore. It seemed that this month has been a volatile month due to the effect of Greece flirtation with the possibility of default.

ST Eng's price was pushed to a low of 3.24 before recovering recently to above 3.3, which is my average buy-in price. Many people in forums have expressed the opinions that ST Eng is richly valued in terms of P/E and P/B. I had see that the valuations are rich but dividend yield remains good. Given time, perhaps I'll see whether its dividend policy is sustainable and whether cash holdings is decreasing. 

Singpost also recovered its price dip to above 1.90. This can be attributed to annual dividends increasing to 7c from 6.25c previously. Also, it divested some of its traditional business for a profit and that might also had lead to price increase. There's some points I'd like to read up on Singpost given time and they are listed as follows: 

• Sustainability of dividend
• Debt obligations and dividends against earnings
• P/E and P/B valuations (Benjamin Graham had advocated sale of share when it reaches overvaluation state. Therefore, I want to see if Singpost is grossly overvalued and warrant a sale. It is unlikely though, as I regard Singpost as my crown jewel. I know falling in love with stock is no good..)
• Review growth of earnings (can be quite hard as Singpost recently changed its accounting practice)

Lastly, HPH Trust has been slowly dipping through the month of June while Bank of Ireland closed pretty high at the end of June amidst signs of Greece coming out of the talks with a solution. 

There was no dividend issued for the month of June. Hence, dividend received remains at $278.25


**Edit: Chart removed because I set it to update with latest information -- not accurate info

My Stock Holdings (May)

Many companies are reporting their financial results this month and this lead to some price fluctuations. In my portfolio, all had reported their results with the exception of Bank of Ireland. As of now, I have no intention to sell any stock in my holding based on the results. Hence barely any change in the composition of my holding.

Also, I'm scouting for good stock to add to the portfolio and will buy in when I return to Singapore from my exchange.

One of my criteria for buying a stock is that it must give out dividend. Singpost, ST Eng and HPH Trust gives out dividend in my portfolio. Bank of Ireland is an exception as I recognise that it is a high growth stock and does not necessarily need to give out dividend.

As of May 2015, I received a total dividend of $278.25

**Edit 1: Revised dividend amount to a lower value as I accidentally calculated dividends I haven't receive.

**Edit 2: Chart removed because I set it to update with latest information -- not accurate info

My Stock Holdings (April)

Starting this month, I will try to show my monthly portfolio in this blog.

Whenever I buy or sell a stock, I will try to justify the cause. My investing mantra lies between an investor and a trader. Therefore, you'll see quick transactions on some stocks while others may be there for years. So here's my portfolio for this month!

**Edit: Chart removed because I set it to update with latest information -- not accurate info

Investing Report Card

Amidst the lab reports, presentation, projects and upcoming exams, this post was done up in light of my third year anniversary in investing.

My first transaction was done back in 8 November 2011 with the purchase of STI ETF. Throughout these 3 years, I had recorded and subsequently archived all my stock holdings with no way of finding out how well I fared against the market index. However, I recently discovered that I could track the CAGR of my portfolio using the XIRR function within Microsoft Excel and thus started to input my transaction history in the spreadsheet.

XIRR function works by inputting two sets of data, transaction value and date (this is reflected by column A and column B as shown in the picture). There are also a couple of rules to follow in order for the function to work. 

1. Beginning value of portfolio must be positive
2. Any "deposit" into the portfolio must be keyed in as a positive value
3. Conversely, any withdrawals (sale of stocks/dividends) is a negative value
4. When you finally want to compute the CAGR, input the ending balance as a negative 
5. Note that the date of transactions need not be in order (but must correspond to transaction!)

Using this method and inputting three years' worth of transaction, my portfolio's CAGR for the three year period turned out to be 9.25%!

This figure is definitely an A+++++ grade for me.  If this CAGR is sustained for 10 years, $10000 at the start will have turned into $24782 at the end of 10 years. However, given that there was a fantastic bull run these past three years, I am not optimistic that this growth will be sustained. Let's wait and see!

In the mean time, here are some interesting facts of my 3 years investing journey

1. My largest gain (unrealised) is currently Singpost, having bought it at $0.98. It is currently at $1.935 now. Including dividends over the years, Singpost is one of my two multi-bagger stocks
2. My second multi-bagger was Straco. I first bought it at $0.335 and watched it climb to $0.70 range. In the middle, I also received a special dividend of $0.020 per share.
3. My worst investment was definitely Vard. I first bought it at $1.37 and subsequently average at $1.28 and $1.08. All these was in hope that the takeover by the Italians would not succeed and stock price will run thereafter. I was only half right. The takeover did not succeed but the stock price did not run. Haha... Sold it some time after Vard declared that it is caught in a tax charge from Brazilian government (whew, missed a bigger fall when it declared profit guidance)
4. Had good profits in the US market. Bought and sold Bank of America for a good profit before. Currently have Apple Inc in my portfolio which I bought in at $88.58
5. On track to receiving $1000 dividends this year based on average capital size of $28500. This translates to 3.5% yield.

This is the end for my 3-years-investing report card. Hope you have gained some insight (however little) from this post. Pardon if there are many grammar errors or what not within this post as I am blogging this in the middle of my mugging session! Hope my finals will do as well as my investing :/ 

 

Signing off,
SG Youth Investor