Sold PUT Contract for Essex Property Trust
The Value Investment Fund sold a PUT contract on Essex Property Trust for 100 shares.
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Value Investing
Value investing, in its simplest terms, means buy low, sell high, the universal primary tenet of business. Value investing is defined as a systematic process of purchasing high-quality stocks at an undervalued market price, quantified by intrinsic value and justified through financial analysis, then selling the stock promptly upon market price recovery.
This site teaches the investor about the four core principles of value investing. There are various in-depth sections, including tutorials about intrinsic value and security analysis.
Furthermore, there is a membership-only section that utilizes a Value Investment Fund with eight pools of different industries and 60-plus potential investments that are monitored regularly. This Fund has a six-year history of 25% annualized returns.
Sold Comerica Bank Two Hours Later
One of the advantages of value investing utilizing pools of similar stocks from a single industry is that every now and then, like once a decade, a unique opportunity will present itself to take advantage of the knowledge and hard financial analysis work one does. In this case, it happened today. Comerica Bank experienced a roller coaster price drop and recovery in one day. It’s intrinsic value was calculated to be greater than $40 per share and the price dropped this morning to just below $30 per share.
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Bought Comerica Bank
Today, the Value Investment Fund took advantage of the chaos in the banking industry and purchased 1,200 shares of Comerica Bank after the the share price dropped below $30 per share.
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Sold PUTS at Year End 2022
PUT contracts are a leverage tool using by value investors. When the overall pool of investments are dipping, it is time to take advantages and sell PUTS.
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Sold Wells Fargo Position
The Value Investment Fund sold its position in Wells Fargo in preparation for two sets of PUTs that the Fund will have to comply with the terms of the PUT contracts.
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Purchased 100 Shares of Essex Property Trust, Inc.
On Friday afternoon, just prior to market closing, this site’s Value Investment Fund purchased 100 shares of Essex Property Trust, Inc. at $221.21 per share.
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Sold PUTs on Norfolk Southern Railroad
This morning, 09/29/22 at 10:37 AM, the Value Investment Fund sold 200 PUTs on Norfolk Southern Railroad at $6.20 netting $5.20 each after transaction fees.
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Value Investment Fund – End of June 2022 Report (Halfway Through 2022)
Overall, the Value Investment Fund is performing remarkably well in relation to the balance of the market during the first six months of 2022. This is even with the error associated with the failure to sell Wells Fargo back in second week of January. Overall, the market is down at least 15% as indicated by the DOW; this reflects the top 30 companies. The reality is that the market overall is down about 21% (S&P 500, S&P Composite 1500) since January 1, 2022. The S&P 500 and Composite 1500 are a more conservative comparative indices to this Fund’s selection pool of investments. As stated above, if using the NASDAQ 100, the Fund is simply crushing the market with Fund down 5% and the NASDAQ 100 down 29%.
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Bought Essex Property Trust
On June 14, 2022, the Value Investment Fund purchased 77.7000 shares of Essex Property Trust at $256.40 per share. Adding the $1 per share transaction fee, a total of $20,000 was invested into this security.
In addition, the Fund sold a PUT option for 100 shares at $9.90 netting $8.80 per share. The strike price is $240 per share with an expiration date of October 21, 2022.
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PUT Options – Leverage Tool for Value Investors
PUT options are an excellent tool to leverage the realized return for a value investment based portfolio of securities. In general, options are very risky financial derivatives and are not recommended for unsophisticated investors. In laymen terms, options are classed as mildly speculative instruments in the world of investing. The key to proper use is to eliminate the risk aspect by only utilizing PUTs in a very restrictive set of circumstances.
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