Friday, April 26, 2019

March 2019 Portfolio Summary

This is a bit of a late post for March. I will summarize how my portfolio looks as of 4/20/2019. I will not put much market commentary in this summary as frankly I did not have as much time to research stocks in the last 6 weeks. I just let my portfolio run on its own and reinvested the dividends. The purchase a few days ago was done more on an equal spray across various high quality positions I always had liked. So there was no real market timing related decisions in my recent purchase. I make purchases more on a dollar cost average style, instead of timing, as timing the market has not worked well in my favor. Over time I buy when the market is high and low and the timing averages out.

Stocks are rarely sold in my portfolio. Once a position is bought, I just receive the dividend and reinvest it quickly. Cash when available in my bank account is deployed when it crosses a certain threshold (i.e. $15K) beyond what I deem a reasonable emergency fund. My condition for selling is mainly when the dividend is in jeopardy or when it's cut, examples in my past include KHC (a food company) and KMI (a pipeline company).

The overall portfolio is climbing steadily since the start of this year. My job assignment has changed in the last few weeks, and at the moment I no longer have to pay housing expenses as I am moving between multiple international sites and living in hotels or temporary locations. This helps increase my contributions quite significantly as all this after tax income is saved for dividend stocks (I used to live in California area which is expensive). Many will spend this extra money if they no longer have to pay for housing, but for me I will use this opportunity to increase my portfolio instead of buying a new car or toys.

The portfolio is going to break $700K soon. This progress comes with high percentage contribution from my salary, dividend reinvestment, saving money from no longer having to pay rent, and the market continuing to move higher. Right now my portfolio contributions are all directed to my taxable account. I no longer use my 401k account as the benefits are not so good now for me. And I want to be able to use my cash and dividend income freely whenever. Retirement age is too far away for me so I rather put all my wealth in taxable accounts.


Saturday, April 20, 2019

Recent buy: CLX, BDX, SYK, WEC, XEL, NEE etc

I bought quite a bit of stock on Thursday afternoon. Here is what I added:

There was not very much good bargains to be honest. So I sprayed my additions across various sectors and dividend growth company types. Some have faster growth and some have lower growth, some have higher yields and others have lower ones. Healthcare and Utilities had a bit of a pullback, but not much.

In total $14,765 USD was added into shares. All these companies were existing positions so I just added more. My cash position sits at around $12.5K now. After the addition, my portfolio now generates $17,758.32 in dividends per year.

Settlement Date   Description  Symbol Amount 
04/23/2019 Pending  Pending Purchase  AT&T INC CLIENT ENTERED.  $414.70
04/23/2019 Pending  Pending Purchase  CLOROX CO DEL COM CLIENT ENTERED.  CLX  $2,298.36
04/23/2019 Pending  Pending Purchase  NEXTERA ENERGY INC SHS CLIENT ENTER...  NEE  $761.80
04/23/2019 Pending  Pending Purchase  KIMBERLY CLARK CLIENT ENTERED.  KMB  $988.48
04/23/2019 Pending  Pending Purchase  ABBOTT LABS CLIENT ENTERED.  ABT  $366.33
04/23/2019 Pending  Pending Purchase  STRYKER CORP CLIENT ENTERED.  SYK  $1,403.04
04/23/2019 Pending  Pending Purchase  BECTON DICKINSON CO CLIENT ENTERED.  BDX  $1,795.84
04/23/2019 Pending  Pending Purchase  CLOROX CO DEL COM CLIENT ENTERED.  CLX  $1,073.80
04/23/2019 Pending  Pending Purchase  GENL DYNAMICS CORP COM CLIENT ENTER...  GD  $875.05
04/23/2019 Pending  Pending Purchase  ABBOTT LABS CLIENT ENTERED.  ABT  $873.60
04/23/2019 Pending  Pending Purchase  XCEL ENERGY INC CLIENT ENTERED.  XEL  $717.47
04/23/2019 Pending  Pending Purchase  COLGATE PALMOLIVE CLIENT ENTERED.  CL  $1,035.68
04/23/2019 Pending  Pending Purchase  WEC ENERGY GROUP INC SHS CLIENT ENT...  WEC  $768.40
04/23/2019 Pending  Pending Purchase  COCA COLA COM CLIENT ENTERED.  KO  $711.15
04/23/2019 Pending  Pending Purchase  REALTY INCM CRP MD PV$1. REIT CLIEN...  $681.50

Friday, April 5, 2019

March 2019 Dividends Received

Time to tally up March's dividend results. Here is how much cash I received in March 2019.
All cash was reinvested back.

Ticker      Total    Taxable         401k
JNJ $235.56 $230.16 $5.40
PEP $201.67 $170.13 $31.54
HD $192.73 $154.65 $38.08
NEE $167.83 $124.08 $43.75
MMM $134.44 $108.52 $25.92
WEC $112.83 $96.90 $15.93
BDX $71.14 $71.14
O $68.09 $68.09
V $57.66 $43.91 $13.75
ROST $50.55 $50.55
D $134.95 $84.49 $50.46
MCD $45.76 $45.76
CHD $43.99 $29.43 $14.56
MSFT $42.43 $17.59 $24.84
TJX $39.49 $39.49
HON $38.86 $38.86
KHC $0.35 $0.35
INTEREST $0.97 $0.97
$1,639.30 $1,306.98 $332.32