Late Spring Cleaning: Sold EMC, GRPN, HSY, IBM, IRBT, LVS, SCTY, WYNN

For whatever reason yesterday, I took a closer look at several of my portfolio stocks' key statistics. (Perhaps this should not be a random activity.)  The following group emerged as having several discouraging characteristics:

• Enemic revenue growth,
• insufficient cash vs. debt,
• negative returns, and
• minor representation within my portfolio.

	Revenue Growth	Cash	Debt	Dividend Yield	Returns	Annualized Returns	Portfolio Holdings (as of 5/8/15)
EMC (EMC)	2%	$6.4B	$5.5B	1.7%	-4%	-3%	1.13%
Groupon (GRPN)	3%	$1.0B	$0.03B	n/a	-14%	-14%	0.57%
Hershey (HSY)	4%	$0.4B	$2.5B	2.4%	-6%	-3%	0.75%
International Business Machines (IBM)	-12%	$8.8B	$38.8B	3.1%	-13%	-5%	0.58%
iRobot (IRBT)	3%	$0.2B	$0.0B	n/a	-21%	-17%	0.51%
Las Vegas Sands (LVS)	-25%	$2.4B	$9.2B	5.0%	-9%	-5%	0.74%
SolarCity (SCTY)	6%	$0.6B	$1.8B	n/a	-25%	-26%	0.50%
Wynn Resorts (WYNN)	-28%	$1.8B	$8.0B	1.9%	-26%	-15%	0.60%

There are some decent dividend yields within the group, but overall I decided that I should put my money to better use elsewhere...and lock in those capital losses.

The 5 high revenue growth, healthy balance sheet, (hopefully continuing!) positive return stocks to take the place of the above will be described in my next post.