Dividend Portfolio: 11/25/2022 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 $12,280 into the account the total value of all positions plus any cash on hand is $12,548.07. That’s a total gain of 2.18%. The account is up $144.10 for the week which is a 1.16% 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 -11.00% 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. Our moves this week increased my PADI by $7 to $476.

Dividends

This week we only on dividend: $1.98 from $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: $330.47

Portfolio’s Lifetime Dividends: $353.39

Trades

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

• November 21st, 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.)
  • SPDR S&P 500 ETF ($SPY) – added $10 at $394.88 per share (weekly automatic buy) and dividend reinvested
  • Global X S&P 500 Covered Call & Growth ETF ($XYLG) – added $10 at $25.62 per share (weekly automatic buy)
  • Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF ($SCHD) – added $10 at $77.21 per share (weekly automatic buy)
• November 22^nd, 2022 (today my $SPY short hit my stoploss. And it hit it hard. I’m a little bummed about it, but it was a lesson I needed in not getting caught up in the emotions of timing the market and feeling strong conviction in one direction over the other. It was also a great lesson in seasonality and option premium burn. Overall, I am still bearish on the market and will continue to hold onto my short positions.)
  • Ally Financial ($ALLY) – added 1 share at $26.18
  • SPY Short – Closed the short for roughly a 60% loss at 1.33.
  • S&P 500 Bear 3X ($SPXS) – added 2 shares at #20.32
• November 25^th, 2022 (An article was posted by Politico on Wednesday that made shares drop by roughly 4%. The article says that “The Federal Trade Commission is likely to file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft’s $69 billion takeover of video game giant Activision Blizzard.” That is huge news… but them it goes on to say that “A lawsuit challenging the deal is not guaranteed, and the FTC’s four commissioners have yet to vote out a complaint or meet with lawyers for the companies…”. Essentially, the article is a bunch of hearsay from “three people with knowledge of the matter”. In my opinion, the article has no grounds of the claims coming from a credible source or having any proof of coming actions. My thesis hasn’t changed and I still believe that Microsoft has done a good job of showing that the acquisition is not anti-competitive and is in fact beneficial for consumers, despite Sony’s best attempts at slandering the deal.)
  • Activision Blizzard ($ATVI) – added 1 share at $73.37
  • Leveraged US Small Cap ETN ($SMHB) – dividend reinvested

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 help arm yourself with market knowledge! This weekly update and the last weekly update provide opinion pieces from myself and explain why I am bearish on the market.

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

Regards,

Dividend Dollars