{"id":1065,"date":"2012-12-19T12:55:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T10:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2012-12-19T12:57:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T10:57:33","slug":"colfax-and-markel-outperform-the-sp-500-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/?p=1065","title":{"rendered":"Colfax and Markel outperform the S&#038;P 500 index!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How performed the 2 stocks this blog follows regularly this year?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Colfax Corp. stock (NYSE:CFX) is up 37% as we are less than 2 weeks away from year end and is by far outperforming the 15% gain of the S&amp;P 500 Index as of this writing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Markel Corp. stock (NYSE:MKL) is up 17% year-to-date and is slightly outperforming the S&amp;P 500 index, too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the case of Colfax it&#8217;s particularly impressive how patient buy and hold investing can be rewarding over the years:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This blog follows <strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong>Colfax<\/strong><strong> since May 2009 when the stock stood at $7.27.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>This translates into a performance of 436% until now!<\/strong> Not bad for 3 1\/2 years isn&#8217;t it? Capitalism at work!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span>To all our readers a Merry Christmas and a happy new year 2013! <\/span>Stay the course!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How performed the 2 stocks this blog follows regularly this year? Colfax Corp. stock (NYSE:CFX) is up 37% as we are less than 2 weeks away from year end and is by far outperforming the 15% gain of the S&amp;P 500 Index as of this writing. Markel Corp. stock (NYSE:MKL) is up 17% year-to-date and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}