2009 Your Best and Worst Investment/Buy

displaced dub

Right its year end and all that rubbish, we will be festooned with top 10 lists for the next 30 days so i have decided in my dictatorship to have a top 1 list of best and worst buys.....

So i will start.

Best-Amazon.com up approx $25.00 a share
Worst-Pretty much anything ISEQ, but as i'm pushed INM(a dog) sold out at a 40% loss, if i stayed in it would have been a lot more.

So get to it people post your best and worst.

strmin

Open trades:
Best - MAC up 384.91% and 41% dividend yield
Worst - UNG down 26.46%

Closed trades:
Best - USNA bought 24.59, sold 35.00
Worst - TEMN lost 98% my first and probably last OTC stock

pocketdooz

Best 2

1) Virgin Media, the UK's number one cable TV and super-fast broadband provider - up 225% year to date.

2) LIFE Technologies - Large biotech and medical tools company - basically a cash-generating machine - up 120% year to date.

Worst 2

1) Fresenius Medical Care, provider of dialysis machines for liver treatment - up 8% year to date.

2) Harris and Harris, private fund based out of New York, consisting of 25 clean tech, biotech and nanotech private companies - up 4% year to date.

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Smcgie

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Taken from the old thread...


Best Investment for me was (and still is) Gulf Keystone Petroleum GKP.L bought back in July09 58333@ 0.12p sterling after doing serious research. They discovered a massive oil well in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq... Truly an excellent investment and still has a BUY rating, a lot more to come with this share - 3 billion barrel's of oil! (estimated) Revised Nov09 to between 10-15 Billion


Now for the other end - Newcourt Group NEW.L
Hold 113,000 of these at 0.05c there in receivership and looks like all shareholders are being screwed over. They sold wings of the company back in sep/oct and didn't even inform shareholders, they never released any company accounts for 2008, basically one of the worst directed companies known to man! Its was a valuable lesson for me, keep away from small cap Irish companies as the directors seems to be a chip off the old Irish politicians block.

Anyway, Ive got over Newcourt but would still like to see some justice for shareholders who were and still are being screwed

Comordha

Best:

Dragon Oil - Up 200% +, still holding and once ENOC get shown to the door we'll be on our way to true value, somewhere in the €9 range.

C&C - Up 150% approx, pure magic so far this year from management, transformed into a proper player in drinks market

Worst:

Fortunatly I have not had any big blow ups

Raskolnikov

I only bought a handful of stocks this year out of fear that we would see further declines in the stock market. However, I did decide to hedge my bets with stocks that could be considered "out of the money" call options on a recovery.

My best investment.

General Growth Properties ~1000% gain: I can't take credit for this idea. I simply read an analysis that Bill Ackman did on the company, decided it was correct, held my nose and bought a small amount of shares when they went into bankruptcy.

My worst investment.

Electro-sensors Inc ~0% gain: Disappointed that I didn't register any capital gain on this. The company has improved profitability, has a stronger balance sheet, but yet the stock has went nowhere. At least I have a 5% dividend.

I think that 2010 is going to be a tremendous year for beaten down stocks in the small/microcap range. For example, one company I watch had such a bad Q3 that it was close to liquidating. The company traded at a new low of $0.60. In Q4, things improved great and the company strengthened, and actually turned a profit, yet the company traded at an even great new low of $0.40.

I am backing the truck up

well this year i was only getting back into shares

Best 2

Smurfit kappa 122%
Bank of ireland 40%

worst 2

well 1 really as my trading was limited mainly because i bought 100000 shares in newcourt at 0.04cent, took me a while to relax over this, lesson learnt

Comordha

Was on Smurfit Kappa (SKG) too. Feel there's a good year or two ahead with this one.