Dividend Portfolio: 11/11/2022 Week in Review

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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 $12,160 into the account the total value of all positions plus any cash on hand is $12,400.47. That’s a total gain of 1.98%. The account is up $463.39 for the week which is a 3.88% 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 -10.38% which puts us 12% 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 $60 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, and the red are positions that I trimmed. I actually sold more than I bought this week, so those moves aren’t evident on the chart. Keep reading below to see those! These moves decreased my PADI by $30 to $462.

Dividends

This week we received no dividends.

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: $321.71

Portfolio’s Lifetime Dividends: $344.63

Trades

Below is a breakdown of the trades I made this week and the reasoning behind them!

• November 7^th, 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 a tried-and-true simple method. I took a day trade with my cash for a tiny gain this day and made a buy ahead of $AY’s earning)
  • SPDR S&P 500 ETF ($SPY) – added $10 at $377.54 per share (weekly automatic buy) and dividend reinvested
  • Global X S&P 500 Covered Call & Growth ETF ($XYLG) – added $10 at $25.20 per share (weekly automatic buy)
  • Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF ($SCHD) – added $10 at $73.83 per share (weekly automatic buy)
  • Atlantica ($AY) – added 1 share at $28.17
  • SPDR S&P 500 ETF ($SPY) – day traded $381 11/9 call for a $4 gain
• November 8^th, 2022 (As mentioned last week, I was looking to cut some positions and build up cash as I believe a better buying opportunity is coming in the short term. I trimmed $LMT and $AMGN  and will buy these shares back at a lower price.)
  • Lockheed ($LMT) – sold 0.25 shares at $491.16
  • Amgen ($AMGN) – sold 0.25 shares at $295.24
• November 9^th, 2022
  • ETRACS 2x Small Cap ($SMHB) – bought 1 share at $6.85
• November 10^th, 2022 (I trimmed $ALLY, $AMGN, $MRK, and $SMHB. I was actually down on $ALLY and $SMHB, but both of these experienced some awesome pops this week. I figured I would take some off of the table and buy those shares back at a lower price in a few weeks. Per my bearishness as mentioned in my market report, I opened a short position today as well.)
  • Amgen ($AMGN) – sold 0.3 shares at $292.87Merck ($MRK) – sold 1 share at $101.67ETRACS 2x Small Cap ($SMHB) – sold 15 shares at $7.72Ally Financial ($ALLY) – sold 0.5 shares at $29.02
  • SPDR S&P 500 ETF ($SPY) – opened a $340 1/20/23 put at $3.03

Next week I will continue to add $10 into each ETF ($SPY, $XYLG, and $SCHD) and will continue to hold onto the rest of my cash. I really want to deploy this cash position into $T, $CMCSA, and $INTC to build 100 share positions in them for covered call activities.

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