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Update On Our Doitinvest Investment Portfolio no.1 – U.S. Blue Chip Stocks

djia-april-2009-14th-overall-us-market-evolutionWell, two weeks have passed since we started our blue chip shares portfolio. If you remember, we created a portfolio of very liquid shares two weeks ago, with the intention of tracking its performance and of comparing it with the investments performance of the DJIA index.

Well, in two weeks the things are quite good. The initial value of our investments portfolio was $1,06 million. In these 13 days we had no bad luck – in fact we had capital gains (since we did not made any transactions with the shares) of $60,000. This corresponds to an investment yield of 6% before any trading commissions and taxes, or roughly to 4% after those. At an annualised rate, this is more than 100%, which is quite a good performance:

Ticker

Company name

Last price

Today’s change

Portfolio Shares

Current value

Today’s gain/loss

Total gain/loss

AAPL Apple Inc

118.31

-1.91 / -1.59%

1000  

118,310

-1,910

9,620

AEP American Electric Power Co Inc

25.86

-0.23 / -0.88%

1574  

40,704

-362

708

APL Atlas Pipeline Partners Lp

4.09

-0.33 / -7.47%

15000  

61,350

-4,950

-6,900

BA Boeing Co

37.04

-0.11 / -0.30%

1000  

37,040

-110

1,600

BAC Bank Of America Corporation

10.09

-0.93 / -8.44%

8000  

80,720

-7,440

24,320

CAT Caterpillar Inc

32.7

-0.46 / -1.39%

1100  

35,970

-506

4,081

CSCO Cisco Systems Inc

17.93

0.04 / 0.22%

1000  

17,930

40

470

CVX Chevron Corp

66.58

-1.40 / -2.06%

1000  

66,580

-1,400

-1,720

F Ford Motor Company

4.3

0.04 / 0.94%

10000  

43,000

400

15,600

GE General Electric Co

11.51

-0.62 / -5.11%

1000  

11,510

-620

1,340

GM General Motors Corporation

1.78

0.07 / 4.09%

30000  

53,400

2,100

-4,500

GOOG Google Inc

368.91

-10.00 / -2.64%

300  

110,673

-3,000

4,446

INTC Intel Corporation

16.01

0.03 / 0.19%

1000  

16,010

30

980

JNJ Johnson & Johnson

51.37

0.22 / 0.43%

1000  

51,370

220

-1,670

JPM JPMorgan Chase & Co

30.7

-3.00 / -8.90%

2000  

61,400

-6,000

5,120

LMT Lockheed Martin Corp

72.91

-0.88 / -1.19%

1000  

72,910

-880

5,320

MMM 3M Co

52.94

-0.41 / -0.77%

1000  

52,940

-410

2,290

MON Monsanto Co

81.55

-1.52 / -1.83%

1000  

81,550

-1,520

-190

PG The Procter & Gamble Co

47.25

-0.79 / -1.64%

1000  

47,250

-790

-960

DJIA Dow Jones Industrial Average

7,920.18

-137.63 / -1.71%

0  

0

0

0

Nikkei Japan NIKKEI AVERAGE INDEX(225)

8,742.96

-99.72 / -1.13 %

0  

0

0

0

Totals:

 

 

 

 

1,060,617

-27,108

59,955

By comparison, in the same period the DJIA has gained only 1,71%, which shows that our investing portfolio clearly outperformed the overall market which the companies were active in.

Biggest gainers were the technology companies (Apple, Google) as well as the standing banks (Bank of America). This is normal, since in recession times the technology companies and the hi-tech ones tend to represent poor investments, whilst when the recovery is back they tend to increase very fast. As a positive note, all the composing shares from our doitinvest.com portfolio have posted gains since we started the portfolio.

So, we are looking forward to ever bigger gains. Time will tell if the portfolio will outperform DJIA or not.

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