Stock bought January 2016: BP

Oil price has crashed and the oil companies share prices have followed the same trend. Since I see no reason to jump into several different oil companies I instead decided to increase my holding in the one I do have in my portfolio since almost four years.

I bought an additional 210 shares for the total price of 1,000.99 € (4.77 €per share). This means that my total holding is now up at 800 shares and I have in total invested 4,042 € or 5.00 € per share including the fees.

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

If you want to see my current Stock Portfolio then click on the link but the portfolio will not be fully updated until the end of the month. 

Analysis of Usu Software

Company: Usu Software

ISIN DE000A0BVU28 | WKN A0BVU2

Business: Usu Software is a Germany software company. They mainly stand on two legs: Product Business (with for instance infrastructure management, software license management,  finance management and process management) and secondly Service Business (with for instance consulting services for IT projects).

Active: as any software company world wide but main activity in Germany, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Austria and the United States.

P/E: 35.6

Analysis of AerCap

Company: AerCap

ISIN NL0000687663 | WKN A0LFB3

Business: A Dutch aircraft leasing company that is listed on the New York stock exchange. They currently have over 1,300 owned and managed aircraft of which 458 are highly attractive, high-demand, fuel-efficient aircraft. AerCap serves over 200 customers today with their services: Leasing & Trading, Asset Management and AeroTurbine.

Active: In 90 countries world wide.

P/E: 9.8 (running year even lower)

Fast Retailing report Q1 2016

The Japanese retail chain Fast Retailing arrived already with their Q1 report for 2016. The reason for this is due to that they are running a broken accounting year. I missed the direct impact of the share price upon the release of it but in general the share price has been dropping lately.

Dividend from ABF: January 2016

The new year have started and with it many calculations starts from scratch again. Among those zeroed are my dividend payments. Just like last year my UK company ABF is the first one to arrive with the dividend. They tend to pay out two dividends per year: one "big one" in January and then a smaller one during the summer.

I still hold only 100 shares in ABF and this year it was decided that we would pay out 0.25 GBP per share which gets converted into 33.48 € that are paid out in full as cash to my broker account since also my "free" capital gains value (801 €) have been zeroed by the German government. The increase in dividend compared to 2015 is 7.7% but comes mainly from currency effect and less from growth of the dividend being paid out.

To find out more about ABF please visit analysis of ABF 2015 and the Stock Dividends page has now been updated if you want to follow my dividend progress.