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Dividend Portfolio: 10/6/23 Weekly Update

Welcome back to the weekly Dividend Dollars portfolio review! This post is brought to you by Koyfin, a powerful analytical tool that I am proud to partner with. Their platform is entirely customizable for whatever investment data you want to look at. I wouldn’t use any other website to dive into a stock’s fundaments. Click the link above or picture below to get a special offer only for Dividend Dollar readers or go give my product review a read if you’re interested!

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 $18,615 into the account the total value of all positions plus any cash on hand is $18,442.15. That’s a total loss of -1.04%. The account is down $392.31  this week which is a -2.09% loss. We added $145 in cash to the account this week, trades made will be broken out below.

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 -3.30% which puts us 2.26% higher than the market!

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 $641 to $663!

Dividends

Over the last week I received two dividends: $0.66 from $IBP and $0.89 from $HLNE

Dividends received for 2023: $411.41

Portfolio’s Lifetime Dividends: $821.81

Trades

This week was a tough week for the markets. We didn’t make a ton of moves, but the moves that we made were big ones.

First, we made a large ~13 share purchase on $BAC. Bank of America has had a brutal week and month losing 5.6% and 8.3%, respectively. Morgan Stanley reduced their price target for the bank by two dollars to $32. Banks and high yielding dividend stocks have come under pressure as Treasury yields continue to climb. As the risk-free rate goes higher, the premium needed to make the value proposition of holding these stocks becomes harder for investors to stomach. $BAC earnings comes up on 10/17 and $0.80 EPS and $25.13B revenue are expected. Recent moves in the stock price shows that the market thinks this is a lofty expectation. A recession still potentially looms over the economy and eventual rate cuts could hurt the banking sector’s performance. However, history shows us that that impact only lasts for the short term. If that happens, it could be a good buying opportunity. However, I think the more likely case is that the economy actually avoids a recession and the fear in the market and industry right now provides a good buying opportunity. Therefore, I increased my position substantially this week.

Then, our 10-day trailing stop on $URNM was hit at $43.21. I’m a little frustrated because the stock bounced back up after that red day. It closed the week at $45.31 and with the exception that last red day, this sucker could still run for who knows how long! But we still won with a 15% gain. Oh well, we will keep our eyes peeled for the next turtle play. If you want to learn more about the turtle trend strategy, I have published a full article on it which you can read here. The below table is a log of the trades taken under the strategy so far.

Then, we sold $15 10/6 covered call on $T for a $1 premium. It’s hardly anything to celebrate, but I figured I should start being more proactive with squeezing out whatever bonus income I can get out of that position. The call expired worthless on Friday, giving me a 100% on that $1.

Then, similar to the thinking with the $BAC add, we did an add to $O. But this was a much smaller add. We also added to $SMHB as small caps are nearing a support level and yields are getting attractive, this dip in the sector looks like a gift.

Lastly, reinvested our $HLNE and $IBP dividends. Below is a breakdown of the trades I made this week:

  • October 2nd, 2023
    • Installed Building Products ($IBP) – dividend reinvested.
  • October 3rd, 2023
    • Bank of America ($BAC) – added 13.65 shares at $26.12.
  • October 4th, 2023
    • Sprott Uranium Miners ETF ($URNM) – sold position at $43.16, stop hit for a 15% win.
  • October 5th, 2023
    • AT&T ($T) – sold 10/6 $15 covered call for $1, expired worthless.
  • October 6th, 2023
    • Hamilton Lane ($HLNE) – dividend reinvested.
    • Realty Income ($O) – 1.3 shares added at $49.69.
    • ETRACS 2xMonthly Levered Small Cap ($SMHB) – added 20 shares at $5.49.

Summary

That is it for the update this week. Let me know what you think of the progress so far, share with me your progress and questions, interact with me on Twitter and CommonStock as well as the other socials using the links below! Also, tune into the Games N Gains Twitch Stream every Thursday at 6PM MST. I play games, hang out, and chat with y’all about stocks, charts, fundamentals, and anything else you like! I hope to see you in there!

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

Regards,

Dividend Dollars

This post 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!

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Dividend Portfolio: 9/29/23 Weekly Update

Welcome back to the weekly Dividend Dollars portfolio review! This post is brought to you by Koyfin, a powerful analytical tool that I am proud to partner with. Their platform is entirely customizable for whatever investment data you want to look at. I wouldn’t use any other website to dive into a stock’s fundaments. Click the link above or picture below to get a special offer only for Dividend Dollar readers or go give my product review a read if you’re interested!

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 $18,470 into the account the total value of all positions plus any cash on hand is $18,672.90. That’s a total gain of 1.10%. The account is down $105.74 this week which is a -0.56% loss. We added $145 in cash to the account this week, trades made will be broken out below.

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 -3.76% which puts us 4.86% higher than the market!

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 decreased from $641 to $621! The decrease is because of the sale of an ETF position which we will detail below.

Dividends

Over the last week I received three dividends: $8.43 from $SCHD, $4.19 from $XYLG, and $8.89 from $BAC. The dividend from $BAC will be automatically reinvested on Monday.

Dividends received for 2023: $409.86

Portfolio’s Lifetime Dividends: $820.26

Trades

This week we did our weekly $10 buys into our ETFs of $SPY, $SCHD, and $XYLG.

We started a new position in $EGP, an industrial REIT. I’m not the biggest fans of REITs, $O has put a bad taste in my mouth for them and the business structure of regular share issuances to raise capital for real estate is not accretive to capital appreciation. However, $EGP has shown some tremendous share price growth in its history, dividend growth as well. I am bullish on that and am also bullish on their targeted focus of smaller sized industrial real estate (most of their tenants are sub 100k sf) in sun belt states. Because of my day job, I am familiar with the industrial real estate market in Arizona, Nevada, and Texas. Those areas make up a large portion of $EGP’s portfolio, so I am quite comfortable with this new position and look forward to building it out.

We sold $RCRUY for a loss, mental stop loss was hit.

We sold out of our $XYLG position and swapped it for $LEAD. The reason for the sell of $XYLG is because covered call ETFs tend to underperform compared to its underlying equity. Even though the yield is nice, the capital depreciation you get over time makes underperform. So, I cut it and wanted to put those funds in a dividend growth ETF. I am not the biggest fan of the dividend growth ETFs that are out there ($VIG and $DGRO for example, maybe even $SCHD a little), because they over diversify and end up holding onto some bad stocks. I dug and found $LEAD, a dividend growth focused ETF with a much better system. I wrote a longer article about that position, click the link here. A comment also made within that article is that we will be switching to monthly $50 adds to the ETF positions instead of $10 weekly adds.

Lastly, we did some adds into $O and $NEE. $O was an opportunistic add under $50. $NEE got beat up this week because of the news with $NEP (a subsidiary they own 55% of) cutting their growth expectations. That growth cut shouldn’t affect $NEE in a large way, in fact, they reaffirmed their guidance for the years and analysts have been reaffirming their estimates and even added buy ratings.

Then, we had some dividend reinvestments and continue to monitor our turtle trade in $URNM which in has been flying higher this week! We are fully scaled in and have our stop set at $43.21, giving us a guaranteed 15% win so far. We continue to move the stop up as the 10-day low moves higher with the trend! If you want to learn more about the turtle trend strategy, I have published a full article on it which you can read here. The below table is a log of the trades taken under the strategy so far.

Below is a breakdown of the trades I made this week:

  • September 25th, 2023
    • East Group Properties Inc ($EGP) – added 2 shares at $169.9.
  • September 26th, 2023
    • Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF ($SCHD) – weekly $10 buy for 0.136537 shares and dividend reinvested.
    • SPDR S&P 500 ETF ($SPY) – weekly $10 buy for 0.022655 shares.
    • Global X S&P 500 Covered Call & Growth ETF ($XYLG) – weekly $10 buy for 0.366032 shares.
    • Global X S&P 500 Covered Call & Growth ETF ($XYLG) – dividend reinvested.
  • September 28th, 2023
    • Recruit Holdings ($RCRUY) – sold full 50 share position at $6.09 for an 8% loss.
    • Global X S&P 500 Covered Call & Growth ETF ($XYLG) – Sold full 39.2 share position at $26.71 for a 1% loss.
    • Siren DIVCON Leaders Dividend ETF ($LEAD) – added 15 shares at $55.14.
    • Realty Income ($O) – added 2 shares at $49.37.
  • September 29th, 2023
    • NextEra Energy ($NEE) – added 3 shares at $57.37.

Summary

That is it for the update this week. These weeks are my favorite. Very little moves to report, but all of the right positions are progressing and keeping us above the market’s performance! Looking forward to future.

Let me know what you think of the progress so far, share with me your progress and questions, interact with me on Twitter and CommonStock as well as the other socials using the links below! Also, tune into the Games N Gains Twitch Stream every Thursday at 6PM MST. I play games, hang out, and chat with y’all about stocks, charts, fundamentals, and anything else you like! I hope to see you in there!

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

Regards,

Dividend Dollars

This post 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!

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A Better Dividend ETF ($LEAD)

Check this out, stocks that begin and grow their dividends have had better returns and less volatility than the equal weight S&P 500 ($RSP) for nearly 50 years.

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This fact has made me consider moving my ETF positions around a little bit. I have about $1k in $XYLG that I have wanted to cut and put somewhere else for a while now, and I made a move on that yesterday.

I came across a potential dividend growth ETF to replace it. It is $LEAD. It’s a small Siren ETF with a somewhat high expense ratio, but I love their strategy.

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Their strategy is designed to capitalize on this theory that consistent dividend growers outperform. They’ve developed a criteria that gives them a selection of companies with the highest probability of a dividend increase in the following 12 months. These picks are determined using a proprietary dividend health scoring system and weighting methodology that ranks the largest 500 US companies using 7 quantitative factors that correlate with dividend growth likelihood.

Those factors are weighted on effectiveness and summed together to provide a “DIVCON” score of 1-5, with 1 being most likely to decrease the dividend and 5 being the most likely to increase the dividend. The ETF selects all the stocks that scored the highest and weights them according to the score. They rebalance the ETF on the first Friday of every December.

Weighting the holdings based on likelihood of an increase seems like a better system than weighting by market-cap, or dividend dollars, or dividend history, like what $DGRO and $VIG use. Using the DIVCON score cuts some fat out of the portfolio compared to other larger ETFs that hold onto poor performing positions like $BAC, $TGT, $NKE, $DG, $MMM, $FIS, $SWK, $VZ.

$LEAD holdings averaged a 71% gain over the last 3 years, only 1 out 57 holdings were negative. For $DGRO, 56 out of the current 432 holdings lost money in 3 years and had an average return of 56%. $VIG has 34 holdings in the current 318 positions that last money the last three years and had an average return of 53%. I also created mock $100,000 portfolios for $LEAD, $VIG, and $DGRO using their current weightings and the results were interesting. $LEAD has a lower overall yield, scored higher on dividend safety, and has higher dividend growth over the last five years which also is represented in the steeper income forecast.

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It seems that $LEAD will beat its dividend growth ETF competitors over time. It also beat $SPY with a little margin over the last 7 years since its inception, a feat that few dividend growth ETFs can claim. Overall, $LEAD appears to have better capital appreciation potential, better dividend growth potential, and a more concise and intelligently selected portfolio (picture 4).

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This seems worth the steeper expense ratio. The only downside in my opinion is the fact that it is such a small ETF, they only have $47M in assets. This leads to low volume, wider spreads when trading shares, and increased risk that the management company closes the fund.

Overall, I like this pick much better than $XYLG or other dividend ETFs for that matter. So we sold all of $XYLG yesterday and bought 15 shares of $LEAD to swap out the positions.

Because of the lack of volatility in $LEAD, my weekly $10 buys into my ETFs will lose a lot of value to the bid-ask spread on this one. So I will be shifting that strategy to add $50 to my ETFs every month. Less regular buys should help me navigate the margin better.

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Dividend Portfolio: 9/22/23 Weekly Update

Welcome back to the weekly Dividend Dollars portfolio review! This post is brought to you by Koyfin, a powerful analytical tool that I am proud to partner with. Their platform is entirely customizable for whatever investment data you want to look at. I wouldn’t use any other website to dive into a stock’s fundaments. Click the link above or picture below to get a special offer only for Dividend Dollar readers or go give my product review a read if you’re interested!

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 $18,325 into the account the total value of all positions plus any cash on hand is $18,630.98. That’s a total gain of 1.66%. The account is down $578.89 this week which is a -3.01% loss. We added $145 in cash to the account this week, trades made will be broken out below.

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 -3.04% which puts us 4.70% higher than the market!

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 decreased from $657 to $643! The decrease is because of the sale of my bond positions.

Dividends

Over the last week I received three dividends: $6.35 from $SMHB, $4.91 from $LMT, and $0.48 from $NSSC. $LMT & $NSSC were received on Friday and will be reinvested on Monday.

Dividends received for 2023: $388.35

Portfolio’s Lifetime Dividends: $798.75

Trades

This week we did our weekly $10 buys into our ETFs of $SPY, $SCHD, and $XYLG.

We added to $INTC on Tuesday after watching their innovation conference. The event featured the announcement of the Meteor Lake generation, a demo of the Lunar Lake system, road map to the Panther Lake system by 2025, showed off the world’s first working UCIe-enabled chiplet-based process, transitioning away from resin to glass, and announced the 288 core Xeon processor coming 2024. A lot of good stuff! However, the stock price slid after the event as the items showed didn’t capture imaginations or impress on the AI leaning products. I think the conference laid out an awesome road map of things coming, what they are, and when to expect them. This is key as it reinforces confidence in Intel and their execution which has previously been plagued by delays and issues that disappointed investors.

Next, we sold off our bond exposure position in $AGG. I think the thesis for a rate pause is still valid, and that intermediate-core bonds will do well in the next year or so. However, I wanted the cash free to buy into things this week and next week. Read the thesis for that trade here, and if you stay in the play without me, I wish you luck!

Next (and this isn’t a trade but just something to mention), $NVO under went a 2:1 split. This was done to increase share liquidity in their domestic market and for the ADR. This change is reflected in the portfolio.

Lastly, we added to a newer position in $IBP. The stock is down 15% in a month, mostly due to selling pressure on housing-related stocks due to rate concerns. Market cycles aside, this company has a strong track record of executing on beneficial M&As to grow their operations and efficiencies. Regardless of the macro, they’ll continue to do this in the long-term, making it a solid cyclical compounder for the portfolio.

Then, we had some dividend reinvestments and continue to monitor our turtle trade in $URNM which bounced back amazingly this week and reached a 22% gain! We are fully scaled in and have our stop set at $40.37, giving us a guaranteed 7.6% win so far. We continue to move the stop up as the 10 day low moves higher with the trend! If you want to learn more about the turtle trend strategy, I have published a full article on it which you can read here. The below table is a log of the trades taken under the strategy so far.

Below is a breakdown of the trades I made this week:

  • September 19th, 2023
    • Intel ($INTC) – added 2 shares at $37.03.
    • Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF ($SCHD) – weekly $10 buy for 0.136537 shares.
    • SPDR S&P 500 ETF ($SPY) – weekly $10 buy for 0.022655 shares.
    • Global X S&P 500 Covered Call & Growth ETF ($XYLG) – weekly $10 buy for 0.366032 shares.
  • September 21st, 2023
    • iShares Core US Aggregate Bond ETF ($AGG) – sold full position at $94.65.
  • September 22nd, 2023
    • $SMHB dividend reinvested.
    • Installed Building Products ($IBP) – added 1 share at $123.27

Summary

That is it for the update this week. These weeks are my favorite. Very little moves to report, but all of the right positions are progressing and keeping us above the market’s performance! Looking forward to future.

Let me know what you think of the progress so far, share with me your progress and questions, interact with me on Twitter and CommonStock as well as the other socials using the links below! Also, tune into the Games N Gains Twitch Stream every Thursday at 6PM MST. I play games, hang out, and chat with y’all about stocks, charts, fundamentals, and anything else you like! I hope to see you in there!

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

Regards,

Dividend Dollars

This post 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!

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Dividend Portfolio: 9/15/23 Weekly Update

Welcome back to the weekly Dividend Dollars portfolio review! This post is brought to you by Koyfin, a powerful analytical tool that I am proud to partner with. Their platform is entirely customizable for whatever investment data you want to look at. I wouldn’t use any other website to dive into a stock’s fundaments. Click the link above or picture below to get a special offer only for Dividend Dollar readers or go give my product review a read if you’re interested!

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 $18,180 into the account the total value of all positions plus any cash on hand is $19,060.11. That’s a total gain of 4.84%. The account is up $187.91 for the week which is a 0.99% gain. We added $145 in cash to the account this week, trades made will be broken out below.

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 -0.12% which puts us 4.96% higher than the market!

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 $654 to $657!

Dividends

Over the last week I received four dividends: $12.47 from $MMM, $2.23 from $MSFT, $2.32 from $O, and $2.38 from $NEE. $O and $NEE were received on Friday and will be reinvested on Monday.

Dividends received for 2023: $376.60

Portfolio’s Lifetime Dividends: $787.00

Trades

This week we did our weekly $10 buys into our ETFs of $SPY, $SCHD, and $XYLG.

We added to our new position in $HLNE. I’ve did some more digging into the company since last month. Not enough to feel confident in a full position, but confident enough that I’d like to add! In addition to that, the price of the stock has been basing for over month since its last run up. Volatility is reaching a historical low, which typically precludes a push higher. Will be keeping my eye on this.

Aside from dividend reinvestments, that was our last move. We kept monitoring our turtle trade in $URNM which progressed amazingly this week and reached a 20% gain! We are fully scaled in and have our stop set at $38.75. Continue to move the stop up as the 10 day low moves higher with the trend! If you want to learn more about the turtle trend strategy, I have published a full article on it which you can read here. The below table is a log of the trades taken under the strategy so far.

Below is a breakdown of the trades I made this week:

  • September 12th, 2023
    • Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF ($SCHD) – weekly $10 buy for 0.135062 shares.
    • SPDR S&P 500 ETF ($SPY) – weekly $10 buy for 0.022303 shares.
    • Global X S&P 500 Covered Call & Growth ETF ($XYLG) – weekly $10 buy for 0.36075 shares.
    • Hamilton Lane Incorporated ($HLNE) – added 1 share at $92.56.
    • 3M ($MMM) – dividend reinvested.
  • September 14th, 2023
    • Microsoft ($MSFT) – dividend reinvested.

Summary

That is it for the update this week. These weeks are my favorite. Very little moves to report, but all of the right positions are progressing and keeping us above the market’s performance! Looking forward to future.

Let me know what you think of the progress so far, share with me your progress and questions, interact with me on Twitter and CommonStock as well as the other socials using the links below! Also, tune into the Games N Gains Twitch Stream every Thursday at 6PM MST. I play games, hang out, and chat with y’all about stocks, charts, fundamentals, and anything else you like! I hope to see you in there!

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

Regards,

Dividend Dollars

This post 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!

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Dividend Portfolio: 9/8/23 Weekly Update

Welcome back to the weekly Dividend Dollars portfolio review! This post is brought to you by Koyfin, a powerful analytical tool that I am proud to partner with. Their platform is entirely customizable for whatever investment data you want to look at. I wouldn’t use any other website to dive into a stock’s fundaments. Click the link above or picture below to get a special offer only for Dividend Dollar readers or go give my product review a read if you’re interested!

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 $18,035 into the account the total value of all positions plus any cash on hand is $18,729.99. That’s a total gain of 3.85%. The account is down $98.32 for the week which is a 0.52% loss. We added $145 in cash to the account this week, trades made will be broken out below.

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 up 0.05% which puts us 3.81% higher than the market!

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 $649 to $654!

Dividends

Over the last week I received two dividends: $5.25 from $CMI and $1.82 from $AGG

Dividends received for 2023: $357.19

Portfolio’s Lifetime Dividends: $767.59

Trades

This week we did our weekly $10 buys into our ETFs of $SPY, $SCHD, and $XYLG.

We added to out $LPLA position this week. MACD levels still indicate bullishness. The chart also shows a really nice inverse head and shoulders pattern with a neckline the $239 area. The neckline was broken, as the stock pushed higher to $242 on a really strong Friday showing! Great news for our position!

We added to our newer $IBL position on weakness this week and also hit our last scale into the $URNM turtle trade! We are now fully scaled in, and we just let it ride as high as it will take us without hitting the stop (10 day low or $38.27, whichever is higher)! If you want to learn more about the turtle trend strategy, I have published a full article on it which you can read here. The below table is a log of the trades taken under the strategy so far.

Below is a breakdown of the trades I made this week:

  • September 5th, 2023
    • Sprott Uranium Miners ETF ($URNM) – added 5 shares at $38.36, turtle trade final add!
    • Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF ($SCHD) – weekly $10 buy for 0.134752 shares.
    • SPDR S&P 500 ETF ($SPY) – weekly $10 buy for 0.022245 shares.
    • Global X S&P 500 Covered Call & Growth ETF ($XYLG) – weekly $10 buy for 0.3601 shares and dividend reinvested.
  • September 6th, 2023
    • Installed Building Products ($IBP) – added 1 share at $144.51.
  • September 7th, 2023
    • LPL Financial ($LPLA) – added 1 share at $236.38.
    • Cummins ($CMI) – dividend reinvested.

Summary

That is it for the update this week. Also, moving forward, there will be no more market recap articles. I may still decide to write an outlook here or there, because those are actually beneficial in my opinion. But the recap articles were too tedious, time consuming, and didn’t provide that much benefit to me or my readers. Macro’s don’t truly affect forever hold companies that much. So I’m stepping away from those effects in order to have more time to study and learn more about stock picking and fundamental analysis so I can bring that content to you!

Let me know what you think of the progress so far, share with me your progress and questions, interact with me on Twitter and CommonStock as well as the other socials using the links below! I have also started a Twitch Channel called Games N Gains! Every Thursday at 6PM MST I go live to hang out, play games, and chat with y’all about stocks, charts, fundamentals, and anything else you like! I hope to see you in there!

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

Regards,

Dividend Dollars

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Dividend Portfolio: 9/1/23 Weekly Update

Welcome back to the weekly Dividend Dollars portfolio review! This post 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 $17,890 into the account the total value of all positions plus any cash on hand is $18,696.64. That’s a total gain of 4.51%. The account is up $577.08 for the week which is a 3.19% gain. We added $120 in cash to the account this week, trades made will be broken out below.

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 up 1.35% which puts us 3.16% higher than the market!

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 $641 to $649!

Dividends

Over the last week I received three dividends: $1.87 from $NVO, $4.67 from $XYLG, and $4.76 from $INTC (will be reinvested Monday).

Dividends received for 2023: $350.12

Portfolio’s Lifetime Dividends: $760.52

Trades

This week we did our weekly $10 buys into our ETFs of $SPY, $SCHD, and $XYLG.

We added to our $NSSC position leading into their earnings report on Tuesday (I still need to read/listen to that and assess the situation with the misreported inventory and COGS).

We started a new position in $LPLA this week based off of attractive MACD levels and am looking for a nice return in the next 3-6 months. The stock has been a terrific performer for the last few years. I have no plan to hold long term, though I do like their performance. We will see what comes of this one.

Lastly we added to our $URNM turtle trend trade twice this week, as the trend as continued to gain strength. We have one more add planned and then we let it ride as high as it will take us! If you want to learn more about the turtle trend strategy, I have published a full article on it which you can read here. The below table is a log of the trades taken under the strategy so far.

Below is a breakdown of the trades I made this week:

  • August 28th, 2023
    • NAPCO ($NSSC) – added 3 shares at $22.57.
  • August 29th, 2023
    • Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF ($SCHD) – weekly $10 buy for 0.134535 shares.
    • SPDR S&P 500 ETF ($SPY) – weekly $10 buy for 0.022303 shares.
    • Global X S&P 500 Covered Call & Growth ETF ($XYLG) – weekly $10 buy for 0.36075 shares and dividend reinvested.
  • August 30th, 2023
    • Sprott Uranium Miners ETF ($URNM) – added 5 shares at $38.36, turtle trade add.
  • September 1st, 2023
    • Sprott Uranium Miners ETF ($URNM) – added 3 shares at $39.27, turtle trade add.
    • LPL Financial ($LPLA) – added 1 share at $235.87

Summary

That is it for the update this week. The weekly market recap and next week’s outlook is prepared. Read those here.

Let me know what you think of the progress so far, share with me your progress and questions, interact with me on Twitter and CommonStock as well as the other socials using the links below! I have also started a Twitch Channel called Games N Gains! Every Thursday at 6PM MST I go live to hang out, play games, and chat with y’all about stocks, charts, fundamentals, and anything else you like! I hope to see you in there!

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

Regards,

Dividend Dollars

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Dividend Portfolio: 8/25/23 Weekly Update

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Welcome back to the weekly Dividend Dollars portfolio review! This post 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 $17,770 into the account the total value of all positions plus any cash on hand is $17,988.26. That’s a total gain of 1.23%. The account is down $19.20 for the week which is a 0.11% loss. We added $120 in cash to the account this week, trades made will be broken out below.

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 -1.12% which puts us 2.35% higher than the market!

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 stayed flat at $641!

Dividends

Over the last week I received three dividends: $2.50 from $GABC (not reinvested since we are out of that position), $3.02 from $SMHB, and $2.73 from $SBUX (will be reinvested Monday).

Dividends received for 2023: $338.82

Portfolio’s Lifetime Dividends: $746.49

Trades

This week we did our weekly $10 buys into our ETFs of $SPY, $SCHD, and $XYLG. We added to our bond position in $AGG which we started a few weeks ago based of the rate pause idea written about here. We started a new position in $NSSC. They’re down roughly 40% this week due to an accounting error that oversized their earnings for the last three quarters by around $10M. Regardless of the misstep, the company has been one of the best operators and growers in their sector by a wide margin. Insider ownership is still high and institutions have hardly sold their positions after the error, both green flags. This dip seems like a great time to get in, in my opinion.

Lastly we have started a new turtle trend trade position in $URNM. We hit two units this week and hope to see the trend continue. If you want to learn more about the turtle trend strategy, I have published a full article on it which you can read here. The below table is a log of the trades taken under the strategy so far.

Below is a breakdown of the trades I made this week:

  • August 21st, 2023
    • Sprott Uranium Miners ETF ($URNM) – added 14 shares at $36.43, new turtle trend trade.
    • ETRACS 2xMonthly Pay Levered Small Cap ETN ($SMHB) – dividend reinvested.
  • August 22nd, 2023
    • Sprott Uranium Miners ETF ($URNM) – added 8 shares at $37.47, turtle trade add.
    • iShares Core US Aggregate Bond ETF ($AGG) – added 1 share at $95.30.
    • Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF ($SCHD) – weekly $10 buy for 0.136892 shares.
    • SPDR S&P 500 ETF ($SPY) – weekly $10 buy for 0.022815 shares.
    • Global X S&P 500 Covered Call & Growth ETF ($XYLG) – weekly $10 buy for 0.366972 shares.
  • August 24th, 2023
    • NAPCO ($NSSC) – added 3 shares at $22.70.

Summary

That is it for the update this week. Head on over to the market recap and outlook to prepare for the week ahead! Read it here.

Let me know what you think of the progress so far, share with me your progress and questions, interact with me on Twitter and CommonStock as well as the other socials using the links below! I have also started a Twitch Channel called Games N Gains! Every Thursday at 6PM MST I go live to hang out, play games, and chat with y’all about stocks, charts, fundamentals, and anything else you like! I hope to see you in there!

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

Regards, Dividend Dollars

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Dividend Portfolio: 8/18/23 Weekly Update  

Welcome back to the weekly Dividend Dollars portfolio review! This post 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 $17,650 into the account the total value of all positions plus any cash on hand is $17,888.25. That’s a total gain of 1.35%. The account is down $437.86 for the week which is a 2.39% loss. We added $120 in cash to the account this week, trades made will be broken out below.

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 -1.93% which puts us 3.27% higher than the market!

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 by $18 to $641!

Dividends

Over the last week I received three dividends: $2.42 from $APD, $2.31 from $O, and $1.88 from $TXN

Dividends received for 2023: $330.58

Portfolio’s Lifetime Dividends: $740.98

Trades

This week we did our weekly $10 buys into our ETFs of $SPY, $SCHD, and $XYLG, made some buys into new positions and existing ones, and closed a position! We averaged down a little bit into $BAC, $MMM, and $NEE. All three have approaching ex dividend dates that I wanted to build into. We also did an add to $AGG, our bond position we started a few weeks ago based of the rate pause idea written about here. We also sold out of our $JKHY position this week on account of the large drop in price following their earnings report. Got out at just under breakeven, not too worried about it as it was a short-term play for banking exposure which we got a win on with $GABC last week. Lastly, we added new positions in $HLNE and $IBP. Both stocks have experienced some wild growth, and their companies continue to grow capital, put that capital to use, and pay out conservative dividends. These are potentially great long term holds, I am just starting small here so I have time to analyze the companies before making it a full position.

Aside from that, I have been scouring the market for Turtle Trades but did not find one this week, we will try again next week! If you’re interested in learning more about the turtle trading strategy that is built into my portfolio, I have published a full article on it which you can read here. The below table is a log of the trades taken under the strategy so far.

Below is a breakdown of the trades I made this week:

  • August 14th, 2023
    • Air Products & Chemicals ($APD) – dividend reinvested.
  • August 15th, 2023
    • Bank of America ($BAC) – added 3 shares at $29.98
    • Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF ($SCHD) – weekly $10 buy for 0.13574 shares.
    • SPDR S&P 500 ETF ($SPY) – weekly $10 buy for 0.022517 shares.
    • Global X S&P 500 Covered Call & Growth ETF ($XYLG) – weekly $10 buy for 0.36049 shares.
    • Texas Instruments ($TXN) – dividend reinvested.
    • Realty Income ($O) – dividend reinvested.
  • August 16th, 2023
    • Jack Henry & Associates ($JKHY) – sold whole position at $156.03 for a 0.12% loss.
    • NextEra Energy ($NEE) – added 2 shares at $67.92.
  • August 17th, 2023
    • iShares Core US Aggregate Bond ETF ($AGG) – added 1 share at $95.30.
    • 3M ($MMM) – added 1 share at $102.59.
  • August 18th , 2023
    • Installed Building Products ($IBP) – added 1 share at $145.65.
    • Hamilton Lane ($HLNE) – added 1 share at $91.39.

Summary

That is it for the update this week. Head on over to the weekly market outlook and recap here to prepare for next week!

Let me know what you think of the progress so far, share with me your progress and questions, interact with me on Twitter and CommonStock as well as the other socials using the links below! I have also started a Twitch Channel called Games N Gains! Every Thursday at 6PM MST I go live to hang out, play games, and chat with y’all about stocks, charts, fundamentals, and anything else you like! I hope to see you in there!

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

Regards, Dividend Dollars    

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Dividend Portfolio: 8/11/23 Weekly Update

Welcome back to the weekly Dividend Dollars portfolio review! This post 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 $17,530 into the account the total value of all positions plus any cash on hand is $18,203.87. That’s a total gain of 3.84%. The account is up $76.72 for the week which is a 0.42% gain. We added $120 in cash to the account this week, trades made will be broken out below.

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 up 0.19% which puts us 3.65% higher than the market!

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 decreased by $34 to $623, that’s due to sales of positions that have dropped off the chart below. So continue reading for the trade breakdown!

Dividends

Over the last week I received no dividends.

Dividends received for 2023: $323.97

Portfolio’s Lifetime Dividends: $734.37

Trades

This week we did our weekly $10 buys into our ETFs of $SPY, $SCHD, and $XYLG, started a new macro-focused swing position on $RCRUY (read this special short article for the logic of this trade), added to $TXN, all turtle trade stops were hit, and we took gains on $GABC. $TXN was an add for me as the recent analyst bearishness seems overplayed. The stock received massive institutional buys last quarter, pushing institutional ownership to 84%. Also, the divergence in price and on-balance volume is a bullish indicator. All good reasons to build the position!

Aside from that, we are now out of the $XLC & $COPX turtle trades and will keep our eyes open for a new entry into something else next week! If you’re interested in learning more about the turtle trading strategy that is built into my portfolio, I have published a full article on it which you can read here. The below table is a log of the trades taken under the strategy so far.

Below is a breakdown of the trades I made this week:

  • August 8th, 2023
    • Global X Copper Miners ETF ($COPX) – sold 21 share position at 38.65 for a 5.6% loss, turtle trade stop hit for a loss.
    • Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF ($SCHD) – weekly $10 buy for 0.134625 shares.
    • SPDR S&P 500 ETF ($SPY) – weekly $10 buy for 0.022387 shares.
    • Global X S&P 500 Covered Call & Growth ETF ($XYLG) – weekly $10 buy for 0.35868 shares.
  • August 9th, 2023
    • German American Bank ($GABC) – sold 10 share position at $30.47 for a 12.4% gain.
    • Recruit Holding CO. ($RCRUY) – added 50 shares at $6.65.
  • August 10th, 2023
    • Texas Instruments ($TXN) – added 1.535 shares at $168.88.
  • August 11th, 2023
    • Communication Services Sector ($SLC) – sold 23.037638 share position at $66.83 for 10.4% gain, turtle trade stop hit.

Summary

That is it for the update this week. Go check out the weekly market recap and outlook to prepare for the week ahead!

Let me know what you think of the progress so far, share with me your progress and questions, interact with me on Twitter and CommonStock as well as the other socials using the links below! I have also started a Twitch Channel called Games N Gains! Every Thursday at 6PM MST I go live to hang out, play games, and chat with y’all about stocks, charts, fundamentals, and anything else you like! I hope to see you in there! Thank you for reading! See you next week and stay safe!

Regards, Dividend Dollars