2020 Stock Picking Comp

[Oliver Mander]

Hi all...well, here are the first set of results for 2020. I've also cleaned up the website, to put the commentary on the front page and make it easier to see how the "Sharetrader Top5" is going. Last, I've validated the closing prices on Dec 31st 2019, to make sure we have the same start point - there were some changes to the Smartshare ETF prices - obviously, the NZX was a bit remiss in sending a Dec 31st update to its customers! This also will have had some minor impact on the 2019 results, although nothing impacting the top 5. I've put the finalised 2019 results on the website as well.

Here is the link to the results and commentary website (results are available now):
https://sites.google.com/view/nzsharepicks/

And here is the weekly commentary and results to Jan 10th...

As you'd expect, its too early in the year to make any serious assessment for the 2020 results so far. The best performing share in the 10 days so far is New Talisman (NTL) - of clear benefit to the 7 people who picked it! There's probably nothing specific driving the NTL movement, although anticipation is building for the next quarterly announcements due in early February. Other strong shares this week included NZ Oil and Gas (NZO), Michael Hill (MHJ) with expected strong Christmas trading and AFT Pharmaceuticals (AFT).Top of the entrants so far is Paint it Black, thanks to NTL and a solid week by Mercury (MCY) driving a 4.2% weekly return. But there's a long way to go...

Username	Pick 1	Pick 2	Pick 3	Pick 4	Pick 5	Opening Investment	Closing Investment	add Dividends	add Rights Issue	TOTAL $ RETURN	TOTAL %AGE	TOTAL Annualised %age	Rank
Paint it Black	NTL	MEL	PCT	MCY	NZX	$10,000	$10,425	$0	$0	$425	4.2%	155.1%	1
Brain	NTL	PLX	BLT	QEX	WDT	$10,000	$10,402	$0	$0	$402	4.0%	173.5%	2
Airedale	NZO	WBC	TLS	SPK	SKT	$10,000	$10,392	$0	$0	$392	3.9%	142.9%	3
Bigbob	NTL	ARB	PEB	WDT	ATM	$10,000	$10,342	$0	$0	$342	3.4%	151.5%	4
tango	AFT	TRU	TLT	ARV	ATM	$10,000	$10,296	$0	$0	$296	3.0%	118.5%	5