March 2018 Portfolio Summary

Dear readers and my future self,

In this report I will summarize how my portfolio sits as of the end of 4/27/2018. Before we get to my portfolio, let's start with some market metrics.

The S&P500 has been a bumpy ride lately. There are a lot of uncertainties in the market in the last month. Discussions around trade with China and the rising 10 year do not bode well for stocks. A lot of my portfolio is in higher dividend paying stocks. A rising 10 year makes the yield of stocks less competitive compared to buying treasuries. As a result, dividend stock prices fall to raise their yields so that they are more competitive alongside risk free treasuries.

Recent buy: PM, KMB, GIS, PG, CLX, etc

I added quite a bit of stock today. Here are the purchases:

Honeywell and Microsoft are new positions. They will be increased over time as I like their businesses and I want more companies in industrials and technology sectors. They do yield lower so I wanted to focus on higher yielding purchases now as a lot of consumer staples are very cheap and yield over 3%.

Right now my cash position sits at around $16,000.

Total commissions paid below is 0 (note I get 100 free trades a month due to my account balance).

expand/collapse column header activity details	sortTrade Dateascending	sortSettlement Datedescending	sortDescriptionascending	sortTypeascending	sortSymbol/ CUSIPascending	sortQuantitydescending	sortPricedescending	sortAmountdescending
	04/25/2018	04/27/2018 Pending	Buy HONEYWELL INTL INC DEL		HON	8	$146.78	-$1,174.24
	04/25/2018	04/27/2018 Pending	Buy MICROSOFT CORP		MSFT	11	$92.19	-$1,014.09
	04/25/2018	04/27/2018 Pending	Buy COLGATE PALMOLIVE		CL	2	$66.36	-$132.72
	04/25/2018	04/27/2018 Pending	Buy CHURCH&DWIGHT CO INC		CHD	2	$45.90	-$91.80
	04/25/2018	04/27/2018 Pending	Buy CLOROX CO DEL COM		CLX	3	$116.10	-$348.30
	04/25/2018	04/27/2018 Pending	Buy PEPSICO INC		PEP	3	$100.98	-$302.94
	04/25/2018	04/27/2018 Pending	Buy COCA COLA COM		KO	3	$42.25	-$126.75
	04/25/2018	04/27/2018 Pending	Buy PROCTER & GAMBLE CO		PG	2	$72.32	-$144.64
	04/25/2018	04/27/2018 Pending	Buy KIMBERLY CLARK		KMB	3	$101.75	-$305.25
	04/25/2018	04/27/2018 Pending	Buy GENERAL MILLS		GIS	3	$44.05	-$132.15
	04/25/2018	04/27/2018 Pending	Buy PHILIP MORRIS INTL INC		PM	2	$81.66	-$163.32
	04/25/2018	04/27/2018 Pending	Buy TJX COS INC NEW		TJX	1	$83.39	-$83.39
	04/25/2018	04/27/2018 Pending	Buy 3M COMPANY		MMM	4	$198.42	-$793.68
	04/25/2018	04/27/2018 Pending	Buy ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC		ITW	2	$151.42	-$302.84
	04/25/2018	04/27/2018 Pending	Buy ALTRIA GROUP INC		MO	3	$55.50	-$166.50
	04/25/2018	04/27/2018 Pending	Buy WEC ENERGY GROUP INC SHS		WEC	4	$62.53	-$250.12
	04/25/2018	04/27/2018 Pending	Buy JOHNSON AND JOHNSON COM		JNJ	3	$126.21	-$378.62

Recent buy: PM, PG, KMB, MMM, etc

The consumer staples companies are getting extremely cheap. The yields are getting very attractive and many of these companies are very high quality. I have taken a sizable hit to my portfolio due to the drop in PM and MO and other consumer staples. However my income from these companies continues to grow. I think the selling is overdone as consumer staples today are now the "unpopular" group shunned in favor of technology and industrials. Today I added the following.

PM: $501

PG: $219

PEP: $204

JNJ: $381

MMM: $433

ITW: $157

CLX: $114

KMB: $196

Trades were executed for free.

I added small amounts. I want to add more to Altria (MO) but will wait until they announce earnings. I still have a lot of cash left (~$20,000) so I was planning to steadily add in over the next days / weeks. I have found it's best to do large additions slowly instead of all at once to avoid risk.

Recent buy: JNJ, MMM, APD, etc

I bought the following yesterday:

JNJ:  $1174
MMM: $2851
APD: $816
ABT: $533
CLX: $256
WEC: $313

I paid $8 total for trades for 3M, the others were free.
Right now my cash position is around $20,000. To see what my portfolio looks like now I updated my Portfolio page: http://www.youngdividend.com/p/portfolio_17.html

I plan to steadily move the cash in all at once as nowadays the market moves up and down quite heavily. It's good to catch some of the down days if possible.

March 2018 Dividends Received

It's that time of the month again. Time to count the dividend payments I received in the last month, March 2018.

I currently have two accounts. One is my brokerage account which I call taxable as the income is taxed. The 401k is my retirement brokerage account with my employer. The 401k dividends are not taxed which is great. I tend to hold not so tax friendly securities like REITs in my 401k.

Ticker	Total	Taxable	401k
JNJ	$163.32	$157.92	$5.40
HD	$130.67	$101.44	$29.23
NEE	$125.47	$95.31	$30.16
PEP	$109.72	$82.86	$26.86
D	$98.48	$54.01	$44.47
MMM	$78.46	$78.46
BDX	$58.38	$58.38
O	$56.45		$56.45
WEC	$49.25	$37.09	$12.16
V	$41.60	$29.96	$11.64
ROST	$41.01	$41.01
KHC	$40.53	$40.53
MCD	$32.90	$32.90
CHD	$32.71	$18.91	$13.80
TJX	$26.22	$26.22
SO	$0.58	$0.58
INTEREST	$0.54	$0.01	$0.53
	$1,086.29	$855.59	$230.70