This Week's Activity – August 31, 2013:
This week, the Dow ended at 14,810 down from 15,010
last week. The market has been staying
around 15,000 since May 7. See the Dow
chart here: http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5EDJI+Interactive#symbol=%5Edji;range=1y;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;
I am still expecting to see a 15% drop in the world
markets. But, I cannot predict when this
drop will happen, so while I wait, I continue to look for companies with good
fundamental financial values that are near their 52 week lows. My goal is to buy good companies whenever
they are down.
Last week I found CIG (CEMIG a large electric
utility in Brazil ). CIG operates 59 hydroelectric plants, 3
thermoelectric, 3 wind farms, owned 13,670 miles of transmission lines and
308,466 miles of distribution lines. CIG
has 7 red cells on StockEvaluator.xls so they do not show up on the “Short
List”. But, Yahoo Finance shows CIG as
paying no dividend, my research at the CIG website showed CIG actually pays
about an 8% dividend as recently as July 2013.
Their dividend is not guaranteed but is calculated as a percentage of
profit and paid about twice a year. CIG
has Debt-to-Equity of 120% which is higher than my goal of 50%, but
considerably LOWER than most of the other Utilities tracked in
StockEvaluator. Also, CIG is back to a 5
year low, but when they were under $8/share back in 2008-09, their revenues were
about 30% lower. Due to their high red
cell count, Ultimate Stock Finder cannot recommend them to you as a good fundamental
buy, but I decided to buy them this week after reading more of their news and
company facts. Due to their current high
dividend, I am viewing them as a Buy and Hold, so my target sell price is $11.00,
which they were at as recently as May 2013.
But if they do not go back up, I will hold them as long as they continue
to pay the good dividend.
Here are some good links for CIG if you want
to do more research to decide for yourself.
Yahoo Finance Profile: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=CIG+Profile
Yahoo Finance 10 Year Interactive Stock Price Chart:
Y Charts 5 Year Revenue Chart:
Company Factsheet from CIG websheet: http://cemig.infoinvest.com.br/static/enu/porque_investir_cemig.asp?idioma=enu
Zacks News story on most recent quarterly
results (Aug. 14, 2013): http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cemigs-q2-earnings-y-y-124502751.html
StockEvaluator “Short List” shows only
companies that are within 5% of their 52 week low AND have less than 5 Red
cells. This week 16 companies are on the
short list. I researched four of them.
SSI is Stage Stores, an off-price department
store similar to Ross (ROST). SSI was
down this week because sales were only up 4%, Profits up 11%, full year revenue
forecast was lowered to only 1%. But
Wall Street was expecting better. At
$18.63 / share, SSI is still way above their 2 year low of $11.22, and P/E is
high at 21.2, but their financials all look good and they pay a 2.5%
dividend. I am not willing to buy them
when they are so far above their 2 year low because I think the next market
drop will drag them lower.
CHS is Chico ’s
FAS, is a women’s clothing retailer, with over 1,350 stores in the USA . Currently
at $15.60, CHS hit a new 52 week low this week of $15.27. Their quarterly earnings report was on Aug.
28, where they reported profits down 15% from last year, sales up 1.2% over
last year, opened 112 new stores, but comparable store sales (open more than a
year) fell 2.6%. Wall Street was not
expecting good news from CHS, so their stock did not drop much from last week. P/B is a little high at 2.3 and Goodwill to
Equity also a little high at 34%. They
pay a 1.4% dividend. CHS is still way
above their 2 year low of $9.94 and I am NOT willing to pay this much over
their 2 year low.
FL is Foot Locker. At $32.20 they are near their 52 week low of
$31.07, but nowhere near their 2 year low of $17.79.
CAJ is Canon.
At $29.90, they are near their 52 week low of $29.81, and also near their
price on March 23, 2009. Their 10 year
low was $22.05 on March 2, 2009. Here is a link to their 10 year stock price
chart: http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=CAJ+Interactive#symbol=caj;range=5y;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;
Canon is a Japanese company and most Japanese
companies are up by double digit percentages since last November when Japan elected a
new Prime Minister and he started devaluing the Yen. This devaluation caused the Nikkei 225 index
to go from 8,676 on Nov. 12, 2012 to 13,388 on Aug. 30, 2013. Two Japanese companies that did not follow
this upward trend are Canon (CAJ) and Nikon (NINOY). The only reason I can find for these two
companies to be down is the lagging camera sales due to so many smartphones now
having cameras.
Here is a good article discussing this: http://seekingalpha.com/article/1657162-look-to-canon-for-an-excellent-yield-and-upside?source=yahoo I would like to
buy Canon and am keeping an eye on them, in case they drop more with an overall
market drop. Any of your ideas on this
would be appreciated. I also ran a
special sort with StockEvaluator comparing CAJ with their 9 closest
competitors. Here is the link for you to
download this special Canon comparison spreadsheet: http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/stockevaluator_canon_comparison.xls
“Volatility” sort shows only companies that
have: Average Daily Price Volatility >3% ;
Within 5% of their 52 week low ; Less than 6
Red cells and Profit >0%. This week’s
list has 8 companies. The first one on
the volatility list is SSI (read about it above in “Short List”).
Always double check the values from any
website before you actually place a buy order, because mistakes in data do happen.
MutualFundEvaluator
“Short List” shows funds that are within 3% of their 52 week low AND have less
than 3 Red cells. This week’s list has 39
funds. They are all Bond funds, which
are continuing to go down in anticipation of The FED raising interest rates. I am going to wait on making any bond fund
buys in hopes they can go even lower.
You can download all these specially sorted
spreadsheets at www.UltimateStockFinder.com
Next Monthly Meeting 2nd Tuesday of every Month:
Tuesday, September 10, 2013 , 7:30 PM at my
house.
Here are my Stock BUYs for This Week:
Buy Company Buy
Date Bought Price
Target Sell
----- --------- ----- ------------
8/29
CIG $7.90 $10.50
Here are my Stock SELLs for This Week:
Sell Company Sell Buy
Buy
Date
Sold
Price Price Date
----- --------- ------- ------- ------------
none
Here are my Option (CALL or PUT) Sells for Last Week:
I only do Covered CALLs or Cash Secured PUTs
Option
Sell Stock Strike
Expiration Option
Type
Date Symbol Price Date
Price
------
------ -------- ------ ---------- --------
None
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you want to share.
Thanks,
John D.
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