H1 2016 has been a strong half for my portfolio, it returned +31.7% vs the FTSE All-share tracker return of +0.7% and S&P tracker return of +1.4%.
Craven House Capital ($CRV.L) was a big contributor and returned 91% in the half. But even excluding this position the portfolio returned 19.0%, driven by a 125% increase in Goldplat ($GDP.L) as operations finally showed some positive progress. Worst performers were Avangardo and Logicamms. Avangardo is still being affected by the situation in the Ukraine and Crimea. I don’t see it resolving any time soon, but as this is such a tiny position now (0.3%), I don’t see much point in selling and there might be a lot of upside at some point, who knows.
Logicamms was down 40% in the quarter, after it posted some poor half year results. But excluding an onerous lease expense and write downs, it was still profitable and priced at only 7x annualised pre tax earnings. I doubled the position after the drop and its now 1.9% of my portfolio.
After selling CRV I now have a large cash balance in the portfolio. I’ll be hoping to find somewhere to deploy this when I have time. This is my portfolio as it stands now.
| Goldplat | GDP:LN | 9.3% |
| Weiss Korea Opportunity | WKOF:LN | 7.6% |
| Ubiquiti Networks | UBNT:US | 4.5% |
| Pental Ltd | PTL:AU | 4.4% |
| Beximco Pharma | BXP:LN | 3.9% |
| Texhong | 2678:HK | 3.9% |
| Oracle | ORCL:US | 2.5% |
| 800 Super Holdings | ESH:SP | 2.1% |
| Codan Ltd | CDA:AU | 1.9% |
| Logicamms | LCM:AU | 1.9% |
| Apple | AAPL:US | 1.8% |
| Softbank | SFT:GR | 1.5% |
| Argo | ARGO:LN | 1.4% |
| Renn | RUG:LN | 1.2% |
| Russia 3x tracker | RUSL:US | 0.9% |
| Saga Furs | SAGCV:FH | 0.9% |
| Hornbeck Offshore | HOS:US | 0.6% |
| Awilco Drilling | AWDR:NO | 0.5% |
| Avanagrdco | AVGR:LI | 0.3% |
| Cash | 48.9% |
Investing Sidekick
Founder of Investing Sidekick. Works as a research analyst and is an avid value investor, always searching for undervalued shares.
I own a couple of US stocks including apple and Berkshire Hathaway. What has constituted to the surge in your investment growth apart from Craven House Capital and Gold Plat?
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