April was a very good month for stocks, although the doom and gloom in the media probably concealed that from you. Our Superfactory 20 index of lean company stocks did especially well, gaining almost 6% from the March low. More importantly, the difference between the SF20 and the S&P500 widened significantly.
For some reason the Boeing stock price is only updating sporadically, sometimes giving a -100% return. I'm not sure if this is due to a programming glitch or our ongoing poking at the company's problems with the 787 Dreamliner. In any case we'll try to get it fixed.
On to April's results. After the table I've added a chart showing the trend this year so far.
April 2008 YTD Performance | ||
|---|---|---|
| Name | Price | Performance |
| WABTEC CORP (WAB) | 42.88 | 27.70 % |
| CATERPILLAR INC (CAT) |
81.88 |
17.12 % |
| PARKER HANNIFIN C (PH) | 79.85 | 12.39 % |
| BA (BA) | 84.86 | 9.36 % |
| 36.83 | 8.93 % | |
| NIKE INC CL B (NKE) | 66.80 | 5.96 % |
| STANLEY WORKS THE (SWK) | 48.24 | 4.28 % |
| JOHNSON AND JOHNS (JNJ) |
67.09 |
2.46 % |
| ILL TOOL WORKS IN (ITW) | 52.29 | 0.81 % |
| 19.04 | 0.00 % | |
| SUPERFACTORY 20 AVERAGE | -0.70 % | |
| HONDA MOTOR CO AD (HMC) | 31.75 | -4.02 % |
| S&P 500 INDEX, RTH (^GSPC) | 1385.59 | -4.25 % |
| ABBOTT LABORATORI (ABT) |
52.75 |
-4.33 % |
| TOYOTA MTR CP ADS (TM) | 101.50 | -4.66 % |
| 63.99 | -6.19 % | |
| DEERE CO (DE) | 84.07 | -6.51 % |
| TEXTRON INC (TXT) | 61.01 | -8.30 % |
| DANAHER CP (DHR) |
78.02 |
-9.43 % |
| TESCO PLC (TSCO.L) | 429.00 | -10.11 % |
| 20.53 | -18.08 % | |
| STEELCASE INC (SCS) | 11.08 | -31.44 % |
