Speaking of which, I recently added six new names
to my broad market portfolio: Neenah Paper
(NP:NYSE), Pfizer (PFE:NYSE), Sara Lee (SLE:NYSE),
Johnson Controls (JCI:NYSE), Jones Apparel
(JNY:NYSE) and the Japan Smaller Capitalization
Fund (KOF:NYSE). To fund it, I kicked out my
shares of Citigroup (C:NYSE) and Plum Creek Timber
(PCL:NYSE). As I mentioned to Cody when he asked
me about my energy overweight a few weeks ago, I'm
trying to diversify into quality names that are
less cyclical.
Now, Neenah Paper would qualify as a cyclical, but
it owns 1 million acres of timberland in Nova
Scotia that it has on the balance sheet at
$5/acre. Also, being a recent spinoff of Kimberly
Clark (KMB:NYSE), it is not well-known. It has a
market cap of slightly more than $500 million as I
write, and no analyst coverage. It didn't earn
money last year, but it is making changes so that
it can make money in the future. For me, it is an
interesting asset play. China may not be cutting
its forests down at the rate it was a few years
ago, but its demand for paper products has not
abated.