Diligent 259% Gains on Mastercard
By J. Christoph Amberger
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Diligent 259% Gains on Mastercard
by J. Christoph Amberger
In this business, we measure success by how our recommendations perform for our subscribers. After all, you really can’t argue with gains, especially gains on a new generation blue-chip stock like Mastercard Inc. (MA:NYSE).
Readers of Diligent Investor who have followed monthly recommendations for the last year were able to jump into Mastercard stock in July 2006, one year ago, for $45.18 per share.
Some thought us crazy. Some thought Mastercard’s IPO would be on the list of losers by now. Naysayers were sure that Mastercard would be one of those “I told you so” stocks.
Well, it is an “I told you so” stocks -- but for those smart enough to buy it a year ago.
This past Monday morning, Mastercard opened at $162 per share. With 259% gains, after one year’s worth of hold time, Diligent Investor editor Ann Sosnowski decided that now is the best time to sell: “The summer doldrums are seeping in, and investors have cleaned out their portfolios during the middle mark of the year for capital gains. Not to mention Mastercard is trading below its 10-day Moving Average again, and looks to continue lower. It’s a perfect time to take gain off the table.”
Don’t get me wrong: It’s been a great year, regardless, for Diligent Investor subscribers, even before cashing out the Mastercard position. For the first half of the year, subscribers were able to make cumulative gains of 669%, and cash-weighted gains of 25%.
Now with the Mastercard gains, and some other house cleaning from the portfolio, total returns for Diligent Investor this year on closed positions total 843%, with cash-weighted returns of 35.43%… not to mention that our closed gain accuracy is 75%! Other newsletters may promise you the inside track on a “secret currency” (which usually ends up being some gold coin). We prefer to put money in our readers pockets.
And Ann has her work cut out for herself: “As I stated only a few weeks ago, my goal is 1,000%+ cumulative gains in Diligent Investor on closed positions this year. It already looks like we’ll exceed that, after safely exiting Mastercard at a safe 259% gain!”
Clowns & Harlots: The Nachos Factor
by Christopher Corbett
Airline delays are now worse than ever, according to The New York Times, which reported last week that the on-time performance of airlines has reached an all-time low. “Even the official numbers do not begin to capture the severity of the problem,” spake the Times.
Apparently there is a kind of domino effect that makes the situation even worse. Travelers who miss connections often cannot get on flights for days because most flights are 90% booked. This could require someone to spend several days at an airport sleeping on a folding cot. Sound like fun? The system is coming apart at the seams. Does it surprise you that a couple of weeks ago USA Today reported that incidents of passengers interfering with flight attendants were also on the rise?
Time for airlines to consider what I call the Nachos Factor. This theory originates from my study of travelers carrying nachos. But it really involves travelers carrying much of anything on to a plane. Or, too much of anything. Airlines will carry on more efficiently if passengers carry on less. That’s the Nachos Factor.
Travelers waddling on to America’s airlines -- hauling steamy containers of Thai food, buckets of nachos slathered in an industrial solvent masquerading as cheese, slabs of greasy, cold pizza -- are the problem. Not to mention the dreadful smells.
And then there’s carry-on luggage. Every airline has carry-on luggage rules, quite strict and specific if you look at them. Alas, rarely enforced. These things slow down boarding.
The on-time performance rate of America’s airlines would take off if only the airlines could get the nation’s waddlers to leave the pizza, pad Thai and nachos at the airport. No one should be allowed to board a plane if they are in violation of the carry-on rules. Purses, laptops and brief cases are one thing, but anvils masquerading as suitcases are another. This may sound pretty radical to the spoiled American traveler, but all luggage should be checked.
I never carry luggage on the plane. I bring only my laptop. Other than that, nothing. Most flights are short so I do not require pad Thai or even water. I am on a plane to get someplace and I want to do everything I can to make that happen -- on time. Let’s just take off, shall we?
You don’t need to be much of an efficiency expert to realize that the time wasted by waddlers weighted down with nachos is valuable. You never hear this mentioned in accounts of flight delays. There is absolutely NO WAY that you could not board planes more quickly and efficiently and take off in a more timely fashion if you banned most carry on items. The New York Times says experts at MIT are studying this. There are reasons flights are late -- weather, maintenance and crew problems. But those are occasional glitches. The Nachos Factor is constant.
The flight attendants have to implore people to sit down. I don’t understand this. When you get on a plane to fly someplace why wouldn’t you sit down? Isn’t that the point? But, no, the waddlers waddle up and down the aisle. Messing about with their four pieces of carry-on luggage. At least one of which cannot be lifted over their head. All the bins are full to the point of overflowing.
“What about convenience?” I hear some dim bulb ask. Convenience? We’re already nearly strip-searched at the airport, tortured by former Taco Bell workers, made to remove our shoes, belts, etc. How inconvenient would it be to simply check your luggage? It will make security much faster. Less to examine! And a more powerful screening process can be used to examine the checked luggage. And with the money saved, airlines can hire more baggage handlers.
Southwest Airlines -- and I am a huge fan -- should experiment with this. They think outside the box. And they take risks. They have changed the face of flying. They also have a lot of waddlers on their flights (Flying Greyhound syndrome). But Southwest is also efficient, and I think they are ideally positioned to experiment. It’s my gift to them. Free. If it works, I can have extra peanuts.
Eliminate the Nachos Factor. Face it; you are on this plane to fly to Detroit, NOT to eat nachos. Sit down, shut up and stop eating nachos. OK, it might sound better if a nice lady with a southern accent says it, but you get the idea.
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