One Year Performance 25.68%

So this is what we have been waiting for this past year.   I created the portfolio back in May 2014 and this is how it looks today.   Over 25% return!

I wasn't sure how the portfolio components would look like for the one year review because the markets were selling off quite significantly at the end of April and the first week of May.  

If we dissect the individual stocks, we find that every one of them is in positive territory, even the laggards EQB and STN.  They seemed to have revived these last 2 weeks.  The remaining stocks have done really well, all with double-digit gains.   We had two stock splits in the portfolio during the course of the year - GIL and STN.

The top stock for the year has been Great Canadian Gaming with an impressive return of just over 57%.  I must admit I was a bit wary of this stock which is why I didn't put a significant amount of capital into it.  But the Google Finance stock filter clearly identified this stock as having some potential.  I think that the GC stock has performed consistently well for most of last year.

CGI Consulting (GIB.A) was also a star performer over the past year.  It lost a bit of ground in the last couple of weeks though, but delivering a handsome return of 44%.

The last 3 stocks LNR, GIL and WFT have finished this past year all with 30% gains.  I never imagined that these stocks would be as volatile as they have been.

Here's the one year performance graph of the May 2014 portfolio.  It made just over $9000 with the initial investment of about $35,000.  A small part of the 9K gain was from dividends of $217.  From this we can see that these were not great dividend paying stocks.  This portfolio was more about growth.

A look at our performance graph in comparison to the performance of the Toronto Stock exchange over the same one year period.  The TSX only gained 4%.  We managed to average a gain of over 2% per month.

I've downloaded the transaction data from this portfolio into an OFX file, which you can upload back into google finance if you want to play with it yourself.  Here's the link to the file on my Google Drive:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwUUNjScf336bVZMRjNWbE11TWs/view?usp=sharing

You need to download the OFX file from my google drive to your downloads folder. Then, login into Google Finance and create a new portfolio, and upload the contents of the OFX file.

If you want to review the criteria I used to choose the stocks in the May 2014 portfolio, here's the link to original post:   http://cdnstocks2watch.blogspot.ca/2014/05/a-selection-of-seven-stocks.html

So I'm thinking to myself, should I create a new portfolio for the upcoming year?  Do you think we can repeat the success of the 2014 portfolio if we follow the same rules and use Google Finance to filter the stocks for us?   I'm hoping it will yield some new stocks for us to track and analyse.

Time for me to check Google Finance and see what gems  we can uncover for 2015.  Stay tuned as I intend to put together a new portfolio next week sometime.  Any input would be welcome!