{"id":215,"date":"2015-08-04T16:01:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T16:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dwelldone.fi\/?p=215"},"modified":"2015-08-04T16:01:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T16:01:42","slug":"recent-sell-baxter-international-and-baxalta-incorporated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dwelldone.fi\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Recent Sell: Baxter International And Baxalta Incorporated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my strategy I&#8217;ve ruled selling stocks as a mistake done in the past. It&#8217;s time to kick myself since today I decided to close my position on <strong>Baxter International<\/strong> (NYSE:BAX) and <strong>Baxalta Inc.<\/strong> (NYSE:BXLT). \u00a0This wasn&#8217;t an easy decision to make taking into account my general rule about selling. It was however motivated by two factors: slightly unexpected dividend policy going forward and the take-out offer <strong>Shire Plc<\/strong> (NASDAQ:SHPG) made for Baxalta today. These two provided what I consider a decent exit point when keeping in mind that my cost basis wasn&#8217;t particularly cheap.<\/p>\n<p>In summary: <strong>sold 35 shares of Baxter International for 40,91 USD per share and 35 shares of Baxalta Incorporated for 38,25 USD per share<\/strong>. Original cost basis for Baxter position (Baxalta being a recent Baxter spin-off) was 71,57 USD per share which translates into a modest profit of 265 USD not including the dividends received during the ownership.<\/p>\n<p>Links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/shire-offers-to-buy-baxalta-for-30-billion-1438688992\" target=\"_blank\">Shire Plc Offer @\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my strategy I&#8217;ve ruled selling stocks as a mistake done in the past. It&#8217;s time to kick myself since today I decided to close my position on Baxter International (NYSE:BAX) and Baxalta Inc. (NYSE:BXLT). \u00a0This wasn&#8217;t an easy decision to make taking into account my general rule about selling. It was however motivated by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dwelldone.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dwelldone.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dwelldone.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dwelldone.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dwelldone.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dwelldone.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/www.dwelldone.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dwelldone.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dwelldone.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dwelldone.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}