Saturday, April 2, 2022

Recent buys in March

The following Buys were made in March month:


March 11:

WEC = 2 share = $187.70

AAPL = 1 share = $155.40

APD = 1 share = $223.48


March 15:

AAPL = 3 share = $445.40

WEC = 6 share = $567.30


March 17:

GOOGL = 1 share = $2664.00

AAPL = 3 share = $477.48

WEC = 3 share = $288.54

Friday, March 4, 2022

Recent buy: AAPL and GOOGL

After almost 18 months of not buying any stocks, I have purchased the following as net adds to my portfolio. Trade were executed 3/3/2022. Both these are new positions in my portfolio. Current cash after stock purchases, remains at $403,504 USD.

Apple (AAPL): + $6482

Google (GOOGL): + $2678


In my 401K, I swapped around $5K of Visa for $5K of Apple. The Visa had a lot of capital gain, but in the IRA, it is tax free to swap stocks. I will be dollar cost averaging into these tech companies over time.

On my watchlist higher growth companies are the following. The letter rating is (S&P Financial Score / Value Line Financial Rating / Safety Rating). AAA is highest for S&P, A++ is highest in Value Line, and 1 is safest. I also list the Gross Margin / Operating Margin / Profit Margin and the % of share reduction average per year. I like high margin businesses. I like businesses with strong balance sheets. I like businesses that reduce share count.

Techs:
ADBE         A+ / A+ / 1         88/37/30 -0.93%
INTU         A- / A+ / 2         82/22/18 1.43% most expensive
GOOGL     AA+ / A++ / 1 57/31/29 -0.678%
AAPL         AA+ / A++ / 1 43/31/27 -4.97%

Industrials:
DHR         BBB+ / A+ / 1 61/25/21 1.06%
RSG         BBB+ / A / 1         40/18/11 -1.50%


Other stocks on my watchlists that are slower growers but offer good yields. The below percentage is their dividend yield. Higher tier offer better growth, mid and lower tier offer lesser growth. These positions I already own so they're just used to add, to average out the dividends. As the tech stocks I add have no dividends or very low.

Higher tier:

HD  2.4%

ADP 2.0%

ITW 2.2%

NEE 2.2%


mid tier

JNJ 2.5%

APD 2.7%

PEP 2.5%


lower tier

WEC 3.2%

XEL 2.9%

D   3.4%

PM  4.8%

Saturday, January 1, 2022

2021 Year End Dividend Review and Top Performers

In November 2021 I received $1709 and December 2021 was $2281 US Dollars. 


Ticker Total Taxable 401k
T $245.54 $244.96 $0.58
CLX $236.52 $236.52
PG $192.12 $178.14 $13.98
O $173.68 $173.68
GIS $155.35 $113.04 $42.31
APD $159.57 $159.57
GD $141.40 $141.40
CL $102.33 $88.41 $13.92
SBUX $96.36 $78.85 $17.51
ABT $125.43 $125.43
MA $40.98 $40.98
COST $39.22 $39.22
INTEREST $0.52 $0.52
$1,709.02 $1,447.04 $261.98

Ticker Total Taxable 401k
JNJ $309.35 $302.51 $6.84
HD $261.72 $229.29 $32.43
NEE $238.79 $181.68 $57.11
MMM $226.87 $226.87
KO $189.05 $189.05
WEC $186.73 $166.97 $19.76
O $181.64 $181.64
MSFT $124.87 $90.31 $34.56
D $114.90 $75.97 $38.93
V $102.33 $81.36 $20.97
BDX $90.51 $90.51
MCD $75.59 $75.59
HON $68.07 $68.07
CHD $76.01 $59.30 $16.71
INTEREST $35.19 $1.10 $34.09
$2,281.62 $1,838.58 $443.04

The dividend growth below shows how much was made so far from dividend payments since I had started in 2013.