Investments

Dividend re-investment for the portfolio hosted in Nordnet with the purchase of 15 EPR Properties shares. Purchase price was 69,99 USD per share. Not much to say about this one. Still reasonably priced and company profile in general is acceptable considering the phase of the market. There are decent valuations available but it’s very difficult to find anything really interesting to buy at the moment in the dividend scope. Personally I doubt we would be getting a major correction next year but it is possible of course. Political tensions have been pushed back a bit but no doubt will come back at some point especially with the approaching US elections and possible deal with China.

Tiny maintenance purchase for portfolio hosted in Nordea. CapMan is a position which I intend to build in the coming months or during Q1/2020 but for the “mandatory” at least one transaction per quarter I bought mere 20 shares for 2,045 EUR per share . CapMan will be included in primary portfolio even though hosted in Nordea. I plan to buy some of the primary portfolio holding for the portfolio hosted in Nordea as it will spread the broker risk. Most likely these will be mainly European stocks listed in euros as my primary broker (Nordnet) has accounts for various currencies which allows me to decide when to convert dividends received in various currencies. For now the portfolio hosted in Nordnet will in one kind of maintenance mode (new purchases being mainly dividend re-investments).

It’s been a while since my last real purchase in main portfolio but today there was three. Hopefully this wasn’t motivated by the negative news from Nordea Bank and Sampo. Both of which are slashing next dividend. First purchase was additional 15 shares of EPR properties bought for 79,46 USD per share. Nothing special here. Decent valuation and acceptable company profile given the interest rate environment and phase of the cycle. GEO Group and CoreCivic are much more interesting. Both are in the much hated for profit prison business which has taken a real beating as the US presidential election approaches. Personally I consider it extremely unlikely that a) US would elect really left leaning president such as Elizabeth Warren and b) would really move away from private prisons any time soon. Having said that, you never know what the general public does and therefore these come with high risk which is at least partly priced in. Very high yield above 10% is also reflecting it as a result. Therefore I bought 80 shares of CoreCivic for 16,17 USD per share and 80 shares of GEO Group for 16,09 USD per share.

Pfizer is about the spin-off it’s generics business and the impact on company profile and dividend strategy remains to be seen. This move is too complex for me understand in detail but I expect further short term pressure on the share price while this saga plays itself out (as many conservative shareholders will wonder how this will play out). I decided to protect the invested capital and sold all 100 shares for 35,44 USD per share (originally bought in the 32,36-33,79 range in 2017). During this time I received 304,00 USD (pre tax) in dividends. I used this capital to buy 10 shares of 3M company for 163,12 USD per share and 20 shares of EPR Properties for 76,77 USD per share. 3M is what it is. Not cheap but acceptable. EPR is a monthly paying REIT which is reasonably recession resistant and should benefit from the insanely low interest rate environment. I might add GEO Group as well since prison REIT should be quite a solid bet going into recession.

Just another maintenance purchase. My existing NEL position wasn’t even hundreds so I added to missing 70 shares for 6,975 NOK per share. These small maintenance purchases are mainly done to make sure that I have enough activity on the secondary portfolio to keep the costs down (at least single event for every three months). Other that there’s not much to say about this. I still think the hydrogen mega trend is in the making and NEL is well positioned. It’s a shame that they will probably be bought out eventually but let’s see how long it will take and what kind of terms it will have.

Yet another tiny maintenance purchase. Today I bought additional 100 Nexgen Energy shares for 2,17 CAD per share and 10 Hexagon Composites shares for 41,20 NOK per share. Nothing new here as hydrogen and uranium sectors are currently the most interesting plays I know. I’ll continue to make these small purchases monthly and will consider additional bigger purchases case by case. I’m also considering additional positions within these sectors as fuel cell manufacturer(s) would fit in nicely and uranium sector in general is really difficult one to pick winners in.

I was originally thinking about initiating a position on Powercell Sweden to complement the primary hydrogen position in NEL ASA. I decided to skip on it for the time being and initiate a position on Hexagon Composites instead. I’m still looking into fuel cell manufacturers but let’s see if I’ll ever pull the trigger. For now I will most likely focus on building a minor position on Hexagon. This initial position consists of mere 70 shares bought for 30,85 NOK per share.

Small addition to the speculative growth portfolio. This uranium play also complements the existing UEX position. I’ll keep these positions small so I bought just the initial 200 shares of Nexgen Energy for 2,07 CAD per share. Uranium is one of the sectors I’m focusing in the secondary portfolio as it’s providing one possible solution for the climate change actions but it’s also very interesting just because of the cyclical nature of it – when the cycle turns, it really turns.