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Old 02-20-2007, 03:52 PM   #1
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Fidelity Contrafund sharp drop after Christmas 2006

Anyone here follows FCNTX? I was perusing its chart for last year. There was a sharp drop. Close price was 70.68 on Dec 21, last trading day before xmas. Close price on next trading day, Dec 26 was 64.95, or 8% drop! No wonder it ended 2006 below SP500.

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Re: Fidelity Contrafund sharp drop after Christmas 2006
Old 02-20-2007, 03:58 PM   #2
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Re: Fidelity Contrafund sharp drop after Christmas 2006

Well, it's worth asking...

Was there a capital gains distribution on Dec 21 ??
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Re: Fidelity Contrafund sharp drop after Christmas 2006

So I looked it up...

Fidelity Contrafund paid a $5.21 per share capital gains distribution on 12/22/06.

There was also a $0.39 income distribution.

Since the share price was around $70.34 a share before the distribution, I calculate that the income and capital gains account for 7.96% of the share price

here's a link to their distribution history:

http://personal.fidelity.com/product...html?316071109
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Thanks MasterBlaster. I should have thought of that.
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your first thought on seeing an out-of-synch price drop should always be: possible distribution.
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The only free site I know of that has nice comparison charts with data that includes distributions (most of the time):

http://stockcharts.com/charts/perfor...erf.html?FCNTX

It takes a while for new distributions to make their way into the data, but FCNTX looks good.

A price-only chart seems less than worthless. It's amazing how hard it is to get good data.

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Got me too when one of my funds had a distribution that I overlooked. My face was so red when I figured out what happened...

Hey, at least it shows we are checking balances from time to time, right?
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Re: Fidelity Contrafund sharp drop after Christmas 2006

Did the same thing (distribution) happen to Wellington?
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I've got some of my 401k in Fidelity Contrafund and have been very pleased with that. I don't pay attention to the daily stuff so much as watching the numbers increase over time.
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Re: Fidelity Contrafund sharp drop after Christmas 2006

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Did the same thing (distribution) happen to Wellington?
Wellington paid income, as well as short term and long term capital gains distributions on Dec 22nd.

here's a link to the info...

Since the funds are listed alphabetically, Wellington is towards the bottom of the page

https://flagship.vanguard.com/VGApp/...type=PIWANTTO2
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