New purchase April 2018 I

I've reinvested some dividend and then some. With a lot of European stocks paying their dividend during the spring I'm going to focus on that part of the world for some time.

• 12 Cramo for 16.85 € for a yield of 4.66 %.
• 15 Fortum for 17.55 € for a yield of 6.26 %. 

I've updated my portfolio and as always it can be found here.

In order to met my goal for this month I've gone to the library and borrowed a couple of books and started reading them in parallel. It's actually good since now I'm reading more non-fiction and then it's good the be able to switch. 

New purchase

I've bought some more stocks.

• 10 STO:IJ for 351.1 SEK per share for a yield of 2.56 %.
• 25 STO:SECU-B for 146.1 SEK per share for a yield of  2.56 %.
• 15 HEL:FORTUM for € 13.35 per share for a yield of 8.23 %.
• 4 HEL:SAMPO for € 43.58 per share for a yield of 4.93 %.

The reinvestments in Fortum and Sampo means that my average cost goes from € 14.32 to € 14.04 and € 43.75 to € 43.69. Intrium Justitia and Securitas both pay dividends once a year and they will pay me $ 10.2 and $ 10.63 this year.

I've updated my portfolio and as always it can be found here.

Watchlist Sweden

I've been having trouble finding Swedish companies that I want to buy at their current values, but I found some (name, ticker, yield, eps):

• Securitas, STO:SECU-B, 2.56, 20.24
• Intrum Justitia, STO:IJ, 2.57, 17.34

Securitas provides different security related services in more than 60 countries. My experience growing up is that more and more services that used to be handled by police are now handled by private security companies and I expect that trend to continue. Intrium Justitia offers services designed to improve clients' cash flow.

Besides these two companies I also plan to increase my stake in some of my Finish stocks that have payed dividend, Fortum and/or Sampo. From now on I plan to reduce the number of new stocks that I purchase. At the moment I own 25 different stocks and I feel that my diversification is at a good level.

New purchase

I've initiated three positions on the Helsinki stock exchange.

• 25 HEL:FORTUM for € 14.32 per share for a yield of 7.68 %.
• 8 HEL:SAMPO for € 43.75 per share for a yield of 4.91 %.
• 9 HEL:NRE1V for € 37.72 per share for a yield of 4.05 %

As is common in at least the Nordic countries they only pay dividends once per year. Fortum and Nokian Tyres pay dividends in April and Sampo in May. In total they will pay $ 29.24, $ 18.29 and $14.64 for a total of $ 62.17.

I've updated my portfolio and as always it can be found here.

Watchlist Finland

I've been looking at some Finnish companies. I want to reduce My exposure to the $ and since Finland has the € it is a good fit, also I pay reasonable fees for buying and selling stocks.

I'm choosing between these companies  (name, ticker, yield, eps):

• Sampo, HEL:SAMPO,  5.24 %, 14.76
• Fortum, HEL:FORTUM, 7.66 %, 25.72
• Elisa, HEL:ELISA, 4.58 %, 20.34
• Nokian Tyres, HEL:NRE1V, 4.08 %, 20.13

Sampo is basically an insurance company, but it also owns 21.2 % of one of the largest Nordic banks: Nordea. Fortum is a energy company where a large share of the energy produced comes from hydro-power. Elisia is a major Finnish telecommunications company. Nokian Tyres produce tyres for consumer car.