Analysis of AutoZone

Company: AutoZone

ISIN US0533321024 | WKN 881531

Business: An American automotive replacement company. They are active with repair, retail and distribution of automotive replacement parts and accessories.

Active: USA, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Brazil with 5,391 stores.

P/E: 20.7

Dividend from Intel: March 2015

The Q1 dividend from Intel was recently paid out to my broker account. I have now also finally changed the settings so that my broker is not wasting poor trees for printing out and sending me all the papers and instead I am getting everything electronically. Hurrah! Oh, and it of course also saves money to my broker which means, in the long run, money to me as a shareholder.

They paid this time out 0.24 USD per share which means that I received for my 100 shares 24 USD which got converted into 21.33 €. From this was taken 15% taxes so 3.20 € and I ended up with 18.13 € on my account as cash to be invested elsewhere.

To find out more about Intel then please click on analysis of Intel 2015.

To check out my current dividend payment history then please visit the Stock Dividends page which has now been updated.

Analysis of Gilead Sciences

Company: Gilead Sciences

ISIN US3755581036 | WKN 885823

Business: An American bio-pharmaceutical company. They are involved in six different fields: HIV/AIDS, Liver Diseases, Oncology/Inflammation, Cardiovascular, Respiratory and finally Other. They go all the way from discovery, development and finally commercialisation of the new pharmaceuticals.

Active: They are present on every continent but mainly/strongest in the US and in Europe.

P/E: 14.0

Stocks of Interest: March 2015

Last month I did manage to fill up my positions in Talanx as well as Tessenderlo so the only still "open" positions are the Russian ETF and of course Eniro but they will get no more money until I see a wind of change.

I had no issues averaging up in Talanx and Tessenderlo which opens up more companies that I should average up in such as for instance Enel and Intel, both of which had small initial investments, but I feel no stress in doing so and in the end... investing is a marathon and not a sprint.

Summary of February 2015

I am tired at the moment and it comes from me having lost my habit of studying. I simply do not perform as well as I did in the past and the memory I had of how easy it was to study is disappearing. It is not due to difficult material it is simply due to that I have lost my study routine and I have too many other things in life that takes and must be given time. I will not be chocked if I fail the examination in two respectively three weeks from now.

In the company I also have much to do at the moment. Preparation of patents, articles, presentations, products, reports, applying for more governmental funding... all of it is currently a fog and for the first time ever I was forced to sit down and write a to-do list for the next couple of months so that I hopefully will not fail one of the deadlines.

To be able to start the company I once upon a time borrowed money from my kind brother. Now during February it hit me that it is unacceptable that I am building up a stock portfolio when he could be doing that for the very same money. Even worse is that he is an active investor so he would not waste it on useless consumption. I have therefore added to my target for 2015 to pay off that loan this year and I will make sure that my brother gets a nice Christmas bonus. I will still try my very best to keep up with the current monthly investment strategy (~2,000 € / month) but in the end of 2015 I may be forced to push it down to be able to make the repayment to my brother. If he reads this then I am sorry that I have not been quicker in paying you back.

In the end of March I am off to India again for probably the last time. I will this time travel around a little so that I get out of Delhi and get to see the country side in India. I am very much looking forward to this even though the schedule will be very tight and exhausting.