Investments

Maintenance purchase since Fortum was trading ex dividend today. Bought additional 13 shares for 14,825 EUR per share. Uniper posted great quarterly results yesterday but that wasn’t too clearly visible on Fortum share price at least today. Could have bought more but I’m still keeping an eye on things and pacing myself.

Corona is hitting everything and REITs especially. Sure, temporary suspension of dividends is likely but that’s somewhat irrelevant short term noise. Private prison REITs appear to be very cheap as they were first hit by the political risks due to the presidential elections and then with the corona disaster which may very well spread in prisons in uncontrollable manner. This is unfortunate of course but for the long term not much has been changed. I doubt US government will scale down the usage of private prisons who ever may be sitting in white house in any given year. Considering the current economic situation and US way of living, it’s difficult to see any path in which there would be meaningful decrease in crime and punishments that follow. In worst case scenario these REITs could sell their portfolio to the government and I would be perfectly fine with that as well. With this in mind I bought additional 80 shares of GEO Group for 11.57 USD per share.

Panic is spreading even faster than Corona virus. I’ve moved to normal buy mode and therefore bought additional 40 shares of Fortum for 13,265 EUR per share and 40 shares of Sampo for 24,7 EUR per share. Fortum in general is very defensive (relatively at least) and Uniper opens up huge possibilities going forward with the energy transition which is likely to benefit from various stimulus operations in near future. Sampo has dropped very quickly and can be called cheap at the moment. Short term it may very well go further down but current valuation opens up interesting possibilities for purchasing own shares or aggressively buying Topdanmark.

Corona is hitting hard and that’s likely to continue for months. This is also  affecting Fortum which is in interesting position with Uniper considering the fact that they are also soon changing CEO soon. That’s a shame as I’m quite a fan of the current CEO Pekka Lundmark. It remains to be seen who will take his position but I’m sure the board will find a proper replacement. Change might even be a good thing with all the turmoil in Uniper during this acquisition. Now that Uniper is also moving on with hydrogen, it has become even more interesting. Being a fan of falling knives I decided to buy 60 shares for 16.65 EUR per share. Smallish starter position but perhaps I manage to buy more in coming months. Current market is finally presenting some decent valuations. I’m especially looking into Aflac, Sampo, 3M and Abbvie. Lodging sector is also one to watch as it has been hit really hard but I suspect that it will not correct itself quite as quickly.

CapMan was trading lower today so decided so sell my tiny position on Hexagon Composites and bought CapMan as replacement. Hexagon position was really small starter position which I hadn’t managed to build up. It was really unlikely that I would be able to build that position in coming months so this move made sense to me given the valuation CapMan had. I bought additional 100 shares for 2.40 EUR per share. Hexagon Composites was very much secondary position and overall I think that I might end up exiting the whole sector during this year or next as I expect eventual buy out for NEL.

Corona is spreading all around the world and stocks took a nose dive as a result. I was building a position on CapMan but stock price went up before I was able to complete the position. Now with corona induced drop I decided to continue and bought additional 230 shares for 2,51 EUR per share. This is a balancing act as we could be headed towards a major drop instead of mild correction seen so far. Therefore I’d like to keep decent amount of ammunition available but don’t want to sit out completely.

Minor maintenance with a swap of Loudspring for CapMan Plc. Sold the tiny position that consisted of 550 Loudspring shares for 0,338 EUR per share and bought additional 110 CapMan shares for 2,315 EUR per share. This was mainly done because I have some indirect exposure for Loudspring even without this and it’s very likely that I have plenty of time to jump back in should there be significant change on the outlook. Essentially this is is streamlining effort which helps on the process of building a real position on CapMan.

First real purchase in the process of building a position on CapMan with a purchase of 320 shares bought for 2,27 EUR per share. More will follow during next few months unless something else comes up. CapMan serves a proxy for quite interesting sectors when we as societies are in the beginning of a major shift. As they but it:

At CapMan, we build better organised, managed, and financially stable companies, because this contributes to overall economic well-being. More jobs and innovations equal better conditions for the society. Similarly, we invest in real estate and infrastructure, because we believe that functional high-quality environments and utilities are cornerstones for functioning societies.

Most of all it is a dividend oriented company and therefore fits into my strategy as a potential combination of high initial yield and decent dividend growth. On top of that I suspect that there might be some real M&A possibilities in coming years which could lead to significant price appreciation. Recent insider activity is also a plus at this point.