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The Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio was down 1.21% in April. Considering that the S&P 500 was up 4.87% last month, this performance was rather disappointing. Looking back over the past 12 months, performance was was a bit better. The Fat Pitch Financials Port was up 0.36% versus a negative -4.93% for the S&P 500. Most importantly, [...]
The Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio first quarter 2008 performance update is a bit overdue at this point. I’ve been playing around with the new SEC EDGAR XML feeds all week and a few things have taken a backseat, including this post.
It’s been a tough quarter for stocks. The S&P 500 was down 9.44%. Thankfully, the Fat Pitch [...]
I went shopping for diapers at Amazon (AMZN) today, and I discovered a big mistake. I use an old email account for my Amazon account, which is also the same email address that I use for my Marketocracy account. I haven’t check this email address in well over a week. I found the following email in [...]
Premier Exhibitions (PRXI) announced yesterday that they signed a 10 year agreement with the Luxor Resort & Casino. The agreement includes the construction of an exhibition complex that will include the Titanic and Bodies… The Exhibition features. This sounds like a very promising development. A longer term exhibit like this will likely have higher returns, [...]
The Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio basically broke even in February. I started the month out with a balance of $1,375,445.21 and ended the month with a balance of $1,350,582.57 for a change of 0.04% this month. Nevertheless, this still beat out the negative 1.61% return for the S&P 500 over the same period.
This month was not your [...]
While sifting through the 52-week low list on Friday at Value Investing News, I spotted the stock of Premier Exhibitions (PRXI). Premier Exhibitions’ stock was down over 20% Friday morning. This ghastly plunge came on the news that Premier Exhibitions’ main source of revenue was at the center of an investigative news report. Shareholders of Premier Exhibitions [...]
The Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio weathered the stormy market in January pretty well. The portfolio was down only 1.18% versus a decline of 6.00% for the S&P 500. There were no new trades in January for the Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio, so my positions are the same as what I reported for the Fat Pitch Financials [...]
I thought some of you might be interested in seeing how the Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio positions fared today given all the doom and gloom in the air given yesterday’s international decline in equity prices. Today’s change in each of my position are as follows:
Mothers Work (MWRK): +4.14%
Western Sizzlin (WSZL): +2.69%
US Bancorp (USB): +1.66%
McGraw-Hill (MHP): +0.88%
USG Corp. (USG): [...]
The Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio performed nicely in 2007, especially given how rough the market was. According to Marketocracy, my paper portfolio produced a 12.22% total return in 2007. This was more than double the S&P 500 2007 total return.
Portfolio Performance
As you can see from the chart above, the Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio lagged the indexes for most [...]
This is just a quick note to let you know that I added McGraw-Hill (MHP) shares to the Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio this morning. McGraw-Hill has been a long term holding in my personal portfolio but my original purchase of those shares predates the creation of this blog and its tracking portfolios.
Given McGraw-Hill’s steep price decline, I [...]
