Thread, The following is version 1.0 of Paul Allen's Wired World Portfolio.
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Here's how I assigned the weightings.
After realizing that it did not make sense to assign weightings based on mkt cap vs. overall mkt. cap (see previous post), I decided to lump the stocks into three buckets based on market cap. Relative to the overall port, these are the small, mid, and large caps.
The three buckets are: Small Cap: Less than $300M Mid Cap: $300M to $1B Large Cap: Greater than $1B
And here's how they fell in the buckets: Stock MktCap Bucket ARIS 19.8M Small ASYM 53.5M Small MCRE 146.6M Small FATB 173.7M Small ZANY 204.0M Small TSCN 301.0M Mid EGGS 363.0M Mid NETP 474.4M Mid HRBC 484.6M Mid MCOM 530.5M Mid VUSA 836.9M Mid HLYW 887.8M Mid BYND 994.2M Large STMP 1.165B Large ZD 1.522B Large HSAC 1.588B Large GNET 2.316B Large CNET 3.548B Large NPNT 4.587B Large PCLN 15.869B Large
You'll notice that I counted BYND as Large, since is was so close to $1B, and more importantly, it's model makes so much sense in light of a Wired World.
Next, I wanted to assign weightings to the three buckets based on their collective impact to influence Paul Allen's vision of a wired world. I decide that the Large Cap bucket would have the most influence by a good margin, and as such assigned it a 60% weighting. The mid cap bucket has a decent impact at 35%. And finally, the small cap bucket I felt would have a minor impact, and consequently I assigned it a 5% weighting. Given a $100,000 initial investment, here's how the weightings played out:
Stock MktCap. Bucket Weight Value ARIS 19.8M Small 1.00% $1,000.00 ASYM 53.5M Small 1.00% $1,000.00 MCRE 146.6M Small 1.00% $1,000.00 FATB 173.7M Small 1.00% $1,000.00 ZANY 204.0M Small 1.00% $1,000.00 TSCN 301.0M Mid 5.00% $5,000.00 EGGS 363.0M Mid 5.00% $5,000.00 NETP 474.4M Mid 5.00% $5,000.00 HRBC 484.6M Mid 5.00% $5,000.00 MCOM 530.5M Mid 5.00% $5,000.00 VUSA 836.9M Mid 5.00% $5,000.00 HLYW 887.8M Mid 5.00% $5,000.00 BYND 994.2M Large 7.50% $7,500.00 STMP 1.165B Large 7.50% $7,500.00 ZD 1.522B Large 7.50% $7,500.00 HSAC 1.588B Large 7.50% $7,500.00 GNET 2.316B Large 7.50% $7,500.00 CNET 3.548B Large 7.50% $7,500.00 NPNT 4.587B Large 7.50% $7,500.00 PCLN 15.869B Large 7.50% $7,500.00 Total $100,000
Next, I divided the Value by the share price to get the number of shares to "buy" for each stock. I rounded to a whole number because I wanted to make it realistic that you had to buy whole shares instead of partial shares, i.e. 265 vs. 264.90 shares of VUSA. (I didn't want it to operate like a mutual fund.)
The result is the port you see in the link above. Tell me what you think!
Adam |