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Here at 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. Let’s dive into the portfolio review!
Portfolio Value
To date, I have invested $11,110 into the account the total value of all positions plus any cash on hand is $10,865.93. That’s a total loss of -2.2% The account is up $232.57 for the week which is a +2.19%.
We started building this portfolio on 9/24/2021 and when compared to the S&P 500 we are outperforming the market so far! Within that same timeframe, the S&P 500 is down -8.71% whereas our portfolio is down -2.2%! 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 $60 in cash to the account this week, the trades made with that 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 moves that we made this week increased our annual dividend income by $3 to $481 at a yield of 4.43%.
Dividends
This week we received $4.99 from two dividends: $3.96 from Amgen $AMGN, and $1.03 from Microsoft $MSFT.
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: $237.97
Portfolio’s Lifetime Dividends: $260.89
Trades
Below is a breakdown of my trades this week!
- September 6th
- $SCHD – added 0.13948 shares at $71.69 ($10 recurring investment)
- $SPY – added 0.025623 shares at $390.27 ($10 recurring investment)
- $XYLG – added 0.387385 shares at $25.81 ($10 recurring investment)
- September 7th
- $MMM & $AFL – $0.20 earned from stock lending
- September 8th
- $MSFT Microsoft dividend reinvested
- $AMGN Amgen dividend reinvested
- September 9th
- $INTC Intel – added 0.9 shares at $31.32
- $SMHB – added 0.2 shares at $9.00
Next week I will continue to add $10 into each ETF ($SPY, $XYLG, and $SCHD) and will look at deploying the rest of the money either into $MO or $BBY for the upcoming ex-dividend date.
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