Dividend Portfolio: 12/9/2022 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 $12,645 into the account the total value of all positions plus any cash on hand is $12,662.00. That’s a total gain of 0.13%. The account is down $204.14 for the week which is a 1.59% loss.

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 -11.7% which puts us 11.8% 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 increase my PADI by $8 to $475.

Dividends

This week I received a $1.14 dividend from $MSFT and $2.92 and $AMGN.

In my portfolio, all positions have dividend reinvestment enabled (except for $AMGN as that is a position I have exited). 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: $353.97

Portfolio’s Lifetime Dividends: $376.89

Trades

This week featured a major buy in celebration of my birthday! Last December, I started the personal tradition of buying myself a whole share of Microsoft as a happy birthday gift to myself. That was my main purchase this week, plus some other shares in $T and $ALLY for some simply averaging down. As usual, we also had out automatic buys in $XYLG, $SCHD, and $SPY on Monday.

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

• December 5^th, 2022                       
  • SPDR S&P 500 ETF ($SPY) – added $10 at $401.72 per share (weekly automatic buy) and dividend reinvested
  • Global X S&P 500 Covered Call & Growth ETF ($XYLG) – added $10 at $26.10 per share (weekly automatic buy)
  • Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF ($SCHD) – added $10 at $77.86 per share (weekly automatic buy)
  • Ally Financials ($ALLY) – added 1 share at $25.01
• December 6^th, 2022
  • AT&T ($T) – added 3 shares at $19.00
• December 7^th, 2022
  • Microsoft ($MSFT) – added 1 share at $243.30

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!

My weekly market recap can be read here. Use this to prepare yourself for the coming week!

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

Regards,

Dividend Dollars