Welcome back to the weekly Dividend Dollars portfolio 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 $14,930 into the account the total value of all positions plus any cash on hand is $14,685.75. That’s a total loss of 1.64%. The account is up $7.74 for the week which is a 0.05% 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 -10.87% which puts us 9.24% 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 $240 in cash to the account last 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 PADI increased from $626 to $630.
Dividends
This I received $8.18 from four dividends ($DNNGY, $LMT, $SHOO, and $FIS).
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. All four of these dividends were received after close on Friday and will be reinvested on Monday.
Dividends received for 2023: $112.74
Portfolio’s Lifetime Dividends: $523.14
Trades
This week was not too busy for me. The market was choppy leading up to the release of the Fed’s rate hike decision. After that the market was pretty volatile, moving down and up and ultimately didn’t end up closing the week much higher or lower than the open. For that reason, I only made a few buys. I bought into $CMCSA and $BBY to DCA leading up to their ex dividend date. I did not execute my weekly buys in $SPY, $SCHD, and $XYLG. I need to be better about adding to them, however I do believe an extend period of time to add down into everything is coming.
I wrote about the happenings of the week in the Market Recap & Outlook, make sure to read that here and checkout out the full breakdown of my trades below:
- March 20th, 2023
- Sold $NYCB Covered Call – $11 strike, 4/21 expiration for $11 credit
- March 21st, 2023
- Best Buy ($BBY) – added 0.25 shares at $77.88
- ETRACS 2xMonthly Pay Levered ETN ($SMHB) – $2.18 dividend reinvested
- March 24th, 2023
- Comcast ($CMCSA) – added 2 shares at $35.91
- Lockheed Martin ($LMT) – $4.85 dividend to be reinvested Monday
- Orsted ($DNNGY) – $1.66 dividend to be reinvested Monday
- Fidelity National Information – $1.04 dividend to be reinvested monday
Next week I will look to continue my weekly buys into $SPY, $SCHD, and $XYLG. I will also look at adding to beaten down bank stocks more as well as $O and $CMCSA for their coming ex dividend date.
Summary
That is it for the update this week. The market recap and outlook is also posted and provides tons of information on what macro statistics I look to at to keep a temperature gauge on the market and inform my portfolio movements. Read that here!
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Thank you for reading! See you next week and stay safe!
Regards,
Dividend Dollars