Portfolio of Alternative Energy and Green Exchange-Traded Funds
Here are 4 exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that hold companies whose businesses includes solar, wind, ethanol, fuel cells and other alternative energy sources.
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ETF | Price Quote | Interactive Price Chart | Comment | |||
| Market Vectors Global Alternative Energy | A globally diversified portfolio of alternative energy companies including solar, wind, ethanol, fuel cells and other. |
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| PowerShares Global Clean Energy Portfolio | A globally diversified portfolio of alternative energy companies including solar, wind, ethanol, fuel cells and other. Owns utility stocks. |
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| PowerShares Cleantech Portfolio | Companies in the cleantech industry. |
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| PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy Portfolio | Companies that strive to provide for cleaner energy. |
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To follow the day-to-day progress of the Alternative Energy and Green ETFs portfolio, check out the returns table and chart below. Dollar values are computed using weekly closes for stocks from Yahoo! Finance. All 4 stocks are included in the chart computations. The current value of the portfolio assumes that $2,500.00 was invested (total of $10,000) in each stock at its closing weekly price for the first week of January 2008.
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Alternative Energy and Green ETFs - Return Results | |
| Portfolio: | Alternative Energy and Green ETFs |
| Start date: | Jan-02-2008 |
| Start value: | $10,000 |
| End date: | May-18-2013 |
| End value: | $4,068 |
| Number prices | 281 |
| Minimum value occurred on May-29-2012 | $2,896 |
| Maximum value occurred on Jan-02-2008 | $10,000 |
| Total gain or loss (Start date to End date) | -59.32% |
| Annualized gain or loss (Start date to End date) | -15.33% |
| Sharpe Ratio | -1.03 |
| Total dollar value on End date of a $10,000 purchase made on Start date | $4,068 |
| Average percent return for all possible buy/sell combinations | -18.81% |
| Number returns | 39,340 |
| Number profitable returns (Winners) | 9,951 |
| Percent profitable returns | 25.29% |
| Number unprofitable returns (Losers) | 29,389 |
| Percent unprofitable returns | 74.71% |
| Winners to losers ratio | 0.34 |
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