What fun! The first 6 months of 2009 are behind us and the stock market rallied strongly in the 2nd quarter. Also, we have the new maritime indices from Capital Link Shipping to compare against the results of my stock tracking.
I am going to put the numbers up and you can decide what is important. As I noted yesterday the new indices from Capital Link align nicely with how I have been tracking the sector. The biggest difference is that my results are equal dollar weighted while the indices are market cap weighted. I also track the dividends paid, which the indices currently do not do.
On comparable subsectors I will show the returns of the stocks I track first with the number of stocks in parenthesis. Then will be my calculation of the Y-T-D returns on the parallel CL index. A couple of the CL indices will be on their own.
All shipping stocks tracked: +0.59% (42) CL Maritime: -13.45% (42)
On the overall index it is interesting to note the difference component weighting can make. I would guess that having Dry Ships DRYS lose 45% of their market cap this year had a significant effect on the CL Maritime Index.
For those who must know, the big winners in my other shipping stocks are KSP and ULTR .
With those returns I thought there would be more cross-over between the LNG/LPG index and the MLP index. The only stock in common is TGP.
Shipping Stocks Returns – Mid-year 2009
What fun! The first 6 months of 2009 are behind us and the stock market rallied strongly in the 2nd quarter. Also, we have the new maritime indices from Capital Link Shipping to compare against the results of my stock tracking.
I am going to put the numbers up and you can decide what is important. As I noted yesterday the new indices from Capital Link align nicely with how I have been tracking the sector. The biggest difference is that my results are equal dollar weighted while the indices are market cap weighted. I also track the dividends paid, which the indices currently do not do.
On comparable subsectors I will show the returns of the stocks I track first with the number of stocks in parenthesis. Then will be my calculation of the Y-T-D returns on the parallel CL index. A couple of the CL indices will be on their own.
On the overall index it is interesting to note the difference component weighting can make. I would guess that having Dry Ships DRYS lose 45% of their market cap this year had a significant effect on the CL Maritime Index.
For those who must know, the big winners in my other shipping stocks are KSP and ULTR .
With those returns I thought there would be more cross-over between the LNG/LPG index and the MLP index. The only stock in common is TGP.
Finally, Go ML