Five months ago I posted an entry on the blog entitled "The top 5 FTSE100 stocks to invest in now".
Since then the FTSE 100 index has increased from 5435 to 5869 a rise of 8%. So
how well did our 5 stocks do?
Standard Life
Standard life was at the top of the list of 5 and happens to
have performed the best. On the 8th June the price was 217p a share. Today (4th
November) the share price is around 299p. On top of that a 4.9p dividend is due
on the 14th November (ex div 22nd August). Including the dividend this gives a
40% return.
Looking at the chart the uptrend for this stock is currently
strong:
Scottish & Southern Energy
SSE was second on our list. The share price has subsequently
increased from 1329 to 1444p a share. On top of this a 56.1p a share dividend
was paid on the 21st September giving a total return of 13.1%.
The chart for SSE also shows a good uptrend:
National Grid
National Grid has performed in line with the FTSE index
seeing its price increase from 653 to 707p a share an increase of 8.3%. No
dividends were paid in the last 5 months.
National Grid is showing a strong uptrend at present too:
Marks & Spencer
This stock has performed better than the market rising from
340.5 to 391p a share, an increase of 14.8%. No dividends were due over this
period.
The share price has seen a strong rise recently and has
broken previous highs on March this year:
GlaxoSmithKline
GSK has proven to be the only bad egg in the list. It's
price has fallen from 1430 to 1361. A 17p dividend per share was paid on the
4th October but even including this the total return is -3.6%.
The price action looks pretty bad too with the 100 day low
recently being breached:
Overall the 5 stocks did well. If you had invested equally
in the five stocks in June then you would be sitting on a 14.5% gain which
compares well to the 8% gain for the FTSE100.
Due to the popularity of the original post I will be posting
a new list in the coming days.
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