Current Stock Holdings

Individual stock investments form ~10% of my total assets. The primary objective of my individual stock investments is not to loose money. A secondary objective is to enable obtaining financial knowledge while playing with real money. I have been picking my own stocks with part of my assets for almost 12 years now with very limited success. My first 10 years of stock investments resulted in a break-even status on money invested – nothing to be proud of, I know. However, the last 2 years has been profitable with ~8% profit reported and a reasonable amount of paper profits being held (see table below).

Here is the list of our current holdings:

Stock	Purchase Price	Date	% Invested	Yield	Current Price	Return
MO	46.54	1/4/2005	10	4	69.6	49.55
KFT	21.11	1/4/2005	3.5	3.1	32.63	54.3
PCL	35.5	5/12/2005	9	4.2	42.2	19.2
PFE	25.15	2/6/2006	8.5	4.8	24	(3)
IBN	27.57	5/18/2006	10	1.15	44	60
TSM	8.71	7/27/2006	7.5	3.6	10.27	18
PTR	106	9/12/2006	9	2.9	140	32
HTE	23.46	11/2/2006	8.5	16	28	21
CNE	13.95	11/2/2006	8	16	14.5	2.5
AAV	11.22	11/2/2006	5	15	12.1	7.9
GOOG	441	3/14/2007	7.5	None	521	18
STP	36.73	3/14/2007	6	None	42.5	16
CEE	51.5	6/28/2007	7.5	3.5	54	5
Cash	-	-	7.5	-	-	-