August 2018 Portfolio Summary

August was a busy month for me. I was not able to post earlier, so this is really a "end of September" post instead of August summary. This post will just focus on posting data.

Here is a screenshot of the S&P500 index. The market has run up a lot and it's hard to buy stocks at good value now.

Name	Ticker	Sector	Value	Weight	Divies	Yield	S&P Fin	VL Fin	VL Safety
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	Health	$34,653.81	6.49%	$902.90	2.6055%	AAA	A++	1
Altria Group Inc	MO	Staples	$33,746.45	6.32%	$1,790.56	5.3059%	A-	B+	2
Visa Inc	V	Financial	$32,274.80	6.05%	$180.63	0.5597%	A+	A++	1
Philip Morris International Inc	PM	Staples	$28,271.11	5.30%	$1,581.02	5.5923%	A	B++	2
Home Depot Inc	HD	Discret	$26,698.65	5.00%	$531.01	1.9889%	A	A++	1
NextEra Energy Inc	NEE	Utilities	$21,688.48	4.06%	$574.56	2.6492%	A-	A	2
Becton Dickinson and Co	BDX	Health	$20,837.95	3.90%	$239.52	1.1494%	BBB	A++	1
PepsiCo	PEP	Staples	$20,330.49	3.81%	$674.65	3.3184%	A	A++	1
Mastercard Inc	MA	Financial	$19,543.84	3.66%	$87.79	0.4492%	A	A++	1
3M Co	MMM	Industrial	$18,569.22	3.48%	$479.41	2.5817%	AA-	A++	1
Ross Stores Inc	ROST	Discret	$18,164.33	3.40%	$164.96	0.9082%	A-	A	2
McCormick & Company	MKC	Staples	$15,957.31	2.99%	$251.93	1.5787%	BBB	A+	1
Realty Income Corp	O	REIT	$15,085.16	2.83%	$703.21	4.6616%	BBB+	A	2
AT&T Inc	T	Telecom	$14,018.29	2.63%	$834.92	5.9559%	BBB+	A++	1
Clorox Co	CLX	Staples	$12,605.77	2.36%	$321.83	2.5530%	A-	B++	2
Illinois Tool Works Inc.	ITW	Industrial	$12,550.68	2.35%	$355.74	2.8345%	A+	A++	1
Xcel Energy Inc	XEL	Utilities	$11,689.79	2.19%	$376.37	3.2197%	A-	A+	1
Automatic Data Proc, Inc	ADP	Tech	$11,589.76	2.17%	$212.32	1.8319%	AA	A++	1
Air Products & Chemicals, Inc	APD	Materials	$11,035.44	2.07%	$290.67	2.6339%	A	A+	1
Kimberly-Clark	KMB	Staples	$10,385.71	1.95%	$365.57	3.5199%	A	A++	1
TJX Companies Inc	TJX	Discret	$10,068.91	1.89%	$70.11	0.6963%	A+	A++	1
Procter & Gamble Co	PG	Staples	$9,689.26	1.81%	$333.88	3.4459%	AA-	A++	1
The Coca-Cola Co	KO	Staples	$9,661.35	1.81%	$326.30	3.3774%	AA-	A++	1
WEC Energy Group, Inc.	WEC	Utilities	$9,585.64	1.80%	$317.61	3.3134%	A-	A+	1
Microsoft Corporation	MSFT	Tech	$9,314.98	1.74%	$149.86	1.6088%	AAA	A++	1
Church & Dwight	CHD	Staples	$9,161.98	1.72%	$134.57	1.4688%	BBB+	A+	1
Dominion Resources, Inc	D	Utilities	$8,593.37	1.61%	$408.39	4.7524%	BBB	B++	2
Stryker Corporation	SYK	Health	$7,881.14	1.48%	$83.39	1.0581%	A	A++	1
Starbucks Corporation	SBUX	Discret	$7,300.45	1.37%	$184.95	2.5334%	A	A++	1
Medtronic plc	MDT	Health	$6,700.90	1.26%	$136.24	2.0331%	A	A++	1
Abbott Laboratories	ABT	Health	$6,405.20	1.20%	$97.79	1.5267%	BBB	A++	1
McDonald's Corporation	MCD	Discret	$6,059.19	1.13%	$146.33	2.4150%	BBB+	A++	1
Honeywell International Inc.	HON	Industrial	$5,179.62	0.97%	$92.76	1.7909%	A	A++	1
Colgate-Palmolive Co	CL	Staples	$4,612.40	0.86%	$115.74	2.5093%	AA-	A+	1
General Dynamics Corporation	GD	Industrial	$4,553.53	0.85%	$82.74	1.8171%	A+	A++	1
Kraft Heinz Co	KHC	Staples	$3,855.14	0.72%	$174.88	4.5364%	BBB-	A	2
General Mills, Inc.	GIS	Staples	$3,183.99	0.60%	$145.40	4.5666%	BBB+	A+	1
Misc	Type	………..	Partial Totals	Weight	Yr Dividends	Avg Yield	…..832	…..9	…..82
Equity	Stocks		$511,504.10	95.80%	$13,920.51	2.7215%
Investable	US Dollars		$15,818.31	2.96%
Miscellaneous	Assets		$6,580.00	1.23%
.	..	…	Equity + Misc	Weight	…..2	…..	…..222	…22	…..223
Total			$533,902.41	100.00%

Recent buy: WEC

Today I added $1580 in WEC.

August 2018 Dividends Received

Here is the dividends received last month.

Ticker	Total	Taxable	401k
T	$190.25	$190.25
PG	$82.77	$71.65	$11.12
CLX	$79.94	$79.94
O	$57.89		$57.89
APD	$56.88	$56.88
SBUX	$45.93	$33.75	$12.18
GIS	$35.96	$3.43	$32.53
CL	$28.75	$28.75
ABT	$24.34	$24.34
MA	$20.18	$8.29	$11.89
GD	$18.73	$18.73
INTEREST	$1.86	$0.02	$1.84
	$643.48	$516.03	$127.45

The growth is pretty well on track with my plans. Nothing unusual happened and everything is moving like clockwork. The moving average of my dividends per month is sitting at around $1056. August is a light month. I'm expecting $1250 in September and $1420 in October which will push the moving average higher.

Recent buy: PEP, JNJ, T, APD ...

The following stocks were purchased today:

xel 500

wec 500

nee 1400

pep 2000

mmm 500

itw 500

hon 500

gd 500

jnj 1000

tjx 500

bdx 500

syk 1000

t 1000

apd 1000

All charts fixed

I fixed all the charts that were broken due to Scottrade no longer providing free graphs after TD Ameritrade acquired them. The charts are now interactive instead of simple pictures, so they may take a bit longer to load.

Recent buy: PEP, APD, KO

Added the following today:
Around $3500 used.

PEP: $1382
APD: $1339
KO: $794

July 2018 Portfolio Summary

This post will summarize what happened to my portfolio in July of 2018. I will use data as of 8/17/2018 in this post (I am usually late to post the previous month's report). First we will summarize what happened in the general markets.

This blog summarizes my multi-decade long project of dividend investing. My purpose is to build passive dividend income that can grow by itself annually. The most important objective is the safety of the dividend, the self-sustaining ability of the companies to increase their dividends, and the overall growth of my passive income in the future to support myself. All results and dollar results shown here are that of my own and funded with my own hard earned cash. 

The S&P500 index did very well in July. As a result my portfolio saw a decent increase in value. The rise has large support from the Consumer Staples sector. I have 31% of my portfolio in consumer staples so this boost really helped the portfolio value growth.

With a combination of market growth and increasing investment from my biweekly salary contributions, my portfolio has crossed the $500,000 threshold with high velocity.

July 2018 Dividends Received

Here is a chart of my dividends in July:

Ticker	Total	Taxable	401k
PM	$389.90	$337.70	$52.20
MO	$387.07	$333.79	$53.28
KMB	$87.55	$47.34	$40.21
XEL	$76.36	$76.36
KO	$74.29	$74.29
MKC	$62.70	$40.64	$22.06
O	$57.66		$57.66
ADP	$52.81	$52.81
ITW	$46.50	$46.50
MDT	$33.50	$33.50
SYK	$13.76	$9.48	$4.28
INTEREST	$1.10	$0.06	$1.04
	$1,283.20	$1,052.47	$230.73

New milestone hit $500,000

The stock market has recently been generous to my holding positions. Today I checked my computer and found that my asset less debts have reached $502,147 which puts me over my second to last milestone: $500K 

The growth is done by a combination of my bi-weekly contributions plus growth and dividends from my investments.

I think this number will obviously fluctuate up and down in the short term with market fluctuations, but in the long term it is good to see the trend is moving upwards steadily to my goal or $1MM.

Although I have completed my 100K, 250K, and now 500K milestones, I do not really feel anything different in my life. It is rather anticlimactic. My daily life and vocation and investing is business as usual. I suppose I will pop a bottle of champagne and go buy a cake to celebrate my personal milestone.