Jun 15

In this post, lets list all the Irish ADRs trading in the US.Irish stocks have not been doing well for the past few months or so due to slowdown in the Irish economy. However they may be good picks at this time since some of these stocks have excellent dividend yields. For eg. - The Governor and Company of The Bank of Ireland (IRE) has a yield of 11.40%.

The complete list of sponsored Irish stocks are as follows:

S.No. Company Ticker Sector
1 Allied Irish Banks AIB Banks
2 Anglo Irish Bank AGIBY Banks
3 Babcock & Brown Air Limited FLY Industrial Transport.
4 Bank of Ireland IRE Banks
5 C&C Group CCGGY Beverages
6 CRH CRH Construct.&Materials
7 Datalex DLEXY Software & ComputerSvc
8 Elan ELN Pharma. & Biotech.
9 Genesis Lease GLS Industrial Transport.
10 Glanbia GLAPY Food Producers
11 Glencar Mining GCEXY Mining
12 Greencore GNCGY Food Producers
13 Horizon Technology HZNTY Software&ComputerSvc
14 ICON ICLR HealthCareEquip.&Ser
15 IONA Technologies IONA Software&ComputerSvc
16 Kerry Group KRYAY Food Producers
17 Ryanair RYAAY Travel & Leisure
18 SkillSoft SKIL Software&ComputerSvc
19 Trinity Biotech TRIB HealthCareEquip.&Ser
20 Trintech TTPA Software&ComputerSvc

Another easy way to invest in Ireland is to pick up a fund such as the The New Ireland Fund (IRL), a closed-end fund. It is cheap now as it is trading at a discount of 8.51% to its NAV.

written by David