Welcome back to the weekly Dividend Dollars portfolio review! Sorry this review is late, I was out of town for a wedding most of last week and weekend! I wrote this today, 10/24/22 so even though this is last week’s review, the prices are current from this morning in my portfolio. This portfolio update is brought to you by Sharesight, a portfolio tracking tool that I am happy to partner with. Their platform makes tracking trading and dividend history, understanding your performance, and saving time a breeze. I wrote a review of the product that you can read here if you’re interested in learning more! Click the link above or the picture below to get a special offer only for Dividend Dollar readers!
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 $11,960 into the account the total value of all positions plus any cash on hand is $11,158.82. That’s a total loss of -6.7%. The account is up $158.83 for the week which is a 1.44% gain.
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 -15.77% which puts us 9.07% higher than the market! 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 $110 in cash to the account this week, trades made 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, the blue ones are positions that I reinvested dividends into, the yellow ones are positions that announced a dividend increase this week. The buys this week increased our PADI $7 to $521.
Dividends
This week we received one dividend. $5.90 from ETRACS 2xMonthly Pay Leveraged US Small Cap High Dividend ETN $SMHB.
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: $296.69
Portfolio’s Lifetime Dividends: $319.62
Trades
Below is a breakdown of the trades I made this week and the reasoning behind them!
- October 17th, 2022 (weekly automatic buys are a crucial part of my portfolio. Building substantial positions in these ETFs help me build my diversity and cash flow in an tried and true simple method.)
- SPDR S&P 500 ETF ($SPY) – added $10 at $367.09 per share (weekly automatic buy)
- Global X S&P 500 Covered Call & Growth ETF ($XYLG) – added $10 at $24.08 per share (weekly automatic buy)
- Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF ($SCHD) – added $10 at $69.17 per share (weekly automatic buy)
- October 21st, 2022 (Both Intel and Comcast have earnings calls coming up next week and I decided it would be a good idea to buy some more at these low levels in case those earnings surprise)
- Comcast ($CMCSA) – added 1 share at $30.17
- Intel ($INTC) – added 2 shares at $26.56
- $SMHB – dividend reinvested at $6.74
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 $ALLY and $INTC 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