Markets bounced back in April with the FTSE putting on a useful 6.42% in the month ahead of my own portfolio's 4.5%.
YTD remains close (both are negative), between these 2 metrics with my own portfolio still marginally ahead with -2.05%.
With the oil price rising and steady reports back to the market from Shell and more impressive one from BP, the 2 oil majors led the risers for me with gains of 14.25% and 12.32%.
These two were trailed by good high single digit gains elsewhere plus a few stragglers: Lloyds, Apple, and BAT, that continued to be negative for the month.
Apple in the headwind of various suppliers' volume downgrades and speculation thats its own numbers would reflect a similar slowdown, as it is Apple came back to the market in May with record Q2 numbers.
Imperial Brands looks to have started its fightback and at £26.01 sits around 10% above its lows of £23.25.
Elsewhere, Galliford Try contributed a maiden dividend to my portfolio, which was closely followed by a successful completion of its rights issue, which I used to add to my holding and average down.
A couple of small monthly buys were also recorded in Imperial Brands and National Grid as I continue to try to take advantage of what I see as temporary pullbacks in the prices of both of these holdings. In effect, buying opportunities.
I continue to have itchy fingers but more on that later.
| Merchant Adventurer's Index | ||||||||
| Forecast | 1 month | YTD | All time | |||||
| Price | % holding | Div. yield | % gain | % gain | % gain | |||
| Lloyds | 64.66p | 26.53% | 5.92% | -0.52% | -5.00% | 4.72% | ||
| Aviva | 529.00p | 13.84% | 5.51% | 6.65% | 4.44% | 47.90% | ||
| Berkeley Group | 4072.00p | 11.98% | 4.42% | 7.47% | -2.98% | 73.59% | ||
| National Grid | 842.80p | 12.65% | 5.41% | 5.09% | -3.29% | 77.07% | ||
| BP | 538.00p | 12.10% | 5.37% | 12.32% | 2.93% | 29.31% | ||
| Apple ** | $162.11 | 8.89% | 1.42% | -1.59% | -5.98% | 305.96% | ||
| BAT | 3999.00p | 2.74% | 5.08% | -3.20% | -20.31% | 19.22% | ||
| Imperial Brands | 2604.50p | 3.07% | 7.22% | 7.36% | -24.35% | 12.85% | ||
| Royal Dutch Shell | 2601.50p | 2.91% | 5.18% | 14.25% | 3.71% | 1.06% | ||
| Vodafone | 211.60p | 2.09% | 6.25% | 9.07% | -9.96% | -16.13% | ||
| SSE | 1381.00p | 1.38% | 6.64% | 8.23% | 4.62% | 19.99% | ||
| Galliford Try | 918.00p | 1.65% | 9.78% | 9.94% | 17.52% | 17.52% | ||
| Cash | 0.16% | 0.00% | ||||||
| 100.00% | 5.22% | |||||||
| 1 month | YTD | All time | ||||||
| Virtual Portfolio gain (incl. Dividends) | ||||||||
| - 1 month gain 2422.18 | 2531.24 | 4.50% | ||||||
| - YTD gain 2583.68 | 2531.24 | -2.05% | ||||||
| - 100 month gain 1000.00 | 2531.24 | 153.12% | ||||||
| Unit Price - £ | 2.53124 | (Starting price - £1) | ||||||
| FTSE gain (excl. Dividends) | ||||||||
| - 1 month gain 7056.60 | 7509.30 | 6.42% | ||||||
| - YTD gain 7687.80 | 7509.30 | -2.32% | ||||||
| - 100 month gain 5412.88 | 7509.30 | 38.73% | ||||||
| Transactions: | ||||||||
| 06/04/2018 | Div | Galliford Try @ 28p per share | ||||||
| 10/04/2018 | Rights | Galliford Try @ 568p per share | ||||||
| 22/04/2018 | Buy | Imp.Brands @ 2448.25p per share | ||||||
| 22/04/2018 | Buy | National Grid @ 743.04p per share | ||||||
| Notes: | ||||||||
| * US Dividends are adjusted for exchange rate and 15% withholding tax | ||||||||
| ** Sterling : Dollar exchange rate = £1: 1.37594 as at 30/04/18 | ||||||||
| *** Sterling : Euro exchange rate = £1: 1.13985 as at 30/04/18 | ||||||||
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