{"id":824,"date":"2011-12-20T16:51:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T14:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/?p=824"},"modified":"2011-12-20T16:51:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T14:51:57","slug":"not-everything-went-south-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"Not everything went south in 2011!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Only some days left to Christmas and a lot of stock investors will be happy:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">this horrible year comes to an end, a year of crisis, uncertainty, warnings and downgrades.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But not everything went south!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Take <em><strong>Colfax (NYSE: CFX)<\/strong><\/em> the fluid handling specialist this blog follows on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Colfax had a busy year preparing for its biggest acquisition, the Charter Group plc., and at the same time did very well to develop its other businesses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The share price this year went from $ 18.41 at year end 2010 to above $30 today, that&#8217;s up 63%!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wow, what a performance compared to the overall market!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What do we learn from this? Buy quality and stay the course!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230;.. Merry Christmas and a happy new year 2012 to all our readers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only some days left to Christmas and a lot of stock investors will be happy: this horrible year comes to an end, a year of crisis, uncertainty, warnings and downgrades. But not everything went south! Take Colfax (NYSE: CFX) the fluid handling specialist this blog follows on a regular basis. Colfax had a busy year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824"}],"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=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}