Dividend Portfolio: 7/22/2022 Week in Review

Welcome back to the weekly Dividend Dollars portfolio review! Dividend Dollars, our investing approach is a dividend growth strategy with aspects of value investing and fundamental analysis. I am a young investor in my 20’s and by sticking to this strategy over the long term, the magical powers of compounding are on my side. This allows me to more easily build substantial positions in dividend paying stocks over time, which will one day help me reach the ultimate goal of being financially free through the sources of passive income they provide. You can read more about the strategy here.

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Portfolio Value

To date, I have invested $10,350 into the account the total value of all positions plus any cash on hand is $10,156.53. That’s a total loss of 1.87%. The account is up $11.32 for the week which is a 0.11% gain.

We started building this portfolio on 9/24/2021 and, even with this rough last week, when compared to the S&P 500 we are outperforming the market so far! Within that same timeframe, the S&P 500 is down -11.08% whereas our portfolio is down -1.87%! I love tracking my portfolio against a benchmark like the S&P. The above chart comes from Sharesight which makes portfolio and dividend management a breeze!

We added $120 in cash to the account this week. The trades made this week will be broken out below

Portfolio

Above is a dashboard of the portfolio that tracks annual dividend income, yield, beta, dividend growth, and more.

Below is a table of everything we are invested in so far. There you can see my number of shares, shares bought through dividend reinvestments, average cost, gains, and more. The tickers in green are positions that I bought shares in this week and the blue ones are positions that I reinvested dividends into. The positions that we added to increased our annual dividend income by $7 at a yield of 4.45%.

Dividends

This week we received only one dividend: $4.96 from ETRACS 2xPayer Levered Small Cap ETF ($SMHB), this will be reinvested on Monday.

In my portfolio, all positions have dividend reinvestment enabled. I don’t hold onto the dividend, I don’t try to time the reinvestment, I just let my broker do it automatically.

Dividends received for 2022: $184.26

Portfolio’s Lifetime Dividends: $208.78

Trades

Below is a breakdown of my trades this week!

• July 18^th
  • 3M ($MMM) – 0.15 shares bought at $128.80
• July 20^th
  • Ally Financial ($ALLY) – 1 share bought at $33.82
  • SCHD – added 0.138125 shares at $72.40 (recurring investment)
  • XYLD – added 0.231054 shares at $43.28 (recurring investment)
• July 21^st
  • AT&T ($T) – 2 shares bought at $18.42
• July 22^nd
  • Intel ($INTC) – bought 0.25 shares at $40.04

Not a huge week of buys for me. AT&T’s quarterly earnings report showed great growth in their products and stable margins. However, the report was not received well by the market on account of the decreased FCF guidance and very heavy capital expenditure. I still believe this is a good long-term hold, if anything, their heavy investments will contribute to a better future for the firm.

Next week I plan on keeping my eyes MMM, MSFT, and TXN for their earnings reports on Tueday, MO, INTC, MRK, and CMCSA for their earnings reports on Thursday, and ALLY for its ex-date on Friday. If any of these provide a nice dip, assuming information from earnings is not catastrophic, I’ll be looking to add.

Summary

That is it for the update this week. Let’s kill it next week. Stay patient and be ready to buy income producing assets at a discount!

Read the weekly market review to get a recap of the week and what economic events are coming in order to help arm yourself with a strategy for your future buys!

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Thank you for reading! See you next week and stay safe!

Regards,

Dividend Dollars