Recent Investment Activity - DGI Portfolio

Hello everyone, 

Thank you so much for the continued support of my blog and my journey to grow wealth.  If you follow my blog, I try to invest small amounts on a weekly basis to existing portfolio positions, along with sprinkling a larger buy here and there when I see value in a particular stock.  For example, I initiated a position in Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) during the Brexit event a few weeks back.  Otherwise, I basically dollar cost average into my positions in my so-called core holdings, suck as Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM).  Over the past year and half I've slowly accumulated decent positions in those core holdings and will continue to add weekly or monthly to build full positions and increase my dividend income.

So far in July, I've not been overly busy in investing, as prices are at all time highs so I haven't pulled the trigger on a new position or larger buy, but I've still had a few of my monthly buys go through.  In addition, I have of course contributed to my 401k plan, as I typically add $450-$500 bi-weekly to that account.  Here are my recent investments, as of July 8th:

Purchases:

Special Agent Dividend's Dividend Growth Portfolio

Target Corp. (TGT) $25
Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) $63
Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) $45.85
The Coca-Cola Company (KO) $31
Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) $60

Total Portfolio Purchases: $224.85

401k - Thrift Savings Plan

Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) $495
Currently investing at 53% C Fund, 27% S Fund and 20% I Fund

Total TSP Purchases: $495

Overall investments: $719.85

That's it for this quick update.   Not too much action, but I'm hoping the cliche saying "slow and steady wins the race" proves true over the long haul.  Thank you for reading and I'll be posting a dividend income update soon, along with some awesome news on my rental property.  

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Weekly Buys and Dividends

Hi fellow DGIers and readers,

Thank you for the continued support of my little blog, as I chronicle one dollar at a time (literally) in my investing journey.    As I mentioned last week, I've been traveling for work.  I had another slow week, as I'm having to pay my tax bill in a few weeks, so I've throttled down a tad to compensate for that money going to Uncle Sam.  However, I'm still plugging away with my small investments, especially my monthly buys that I directly invest.   While there is certainly better options, depending on each individual and/or preference, I feel this type of investment enables me to slowly accumulate shares and dollar cost average into full positions.   

Here is the breakdown:

Purchases:

Special Agent Dividend's Dividend Growth Portfolio

ConocoPhillips (COP) $60
The Walt Disney Company ((DIS) $20
Bank of America Corp. (BAC) $13.60 (one share)
The Proctor & Gamble Company (PG) $55

Total Purchases for the Week: $148.60

Dividends:
BP plc (BP) $36.82 (DRIP)
Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT) $10.19 (DRIP)
Bank of America Corp. (BAC) $1.45

Total Dividends for the Week: $48.46

Well, not much going on this week, but I'm an advocate of every dollar counts in this investing journey.   With that in mind, I added $148.60 to prior positions and was able to reinvest dividends in two of my three dividends received this week.  Of note, as detailed in last post, I FINALLY crossed the $100 mark in monthly dividends, which was a nice little boost for me. Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope everyone had a great weekend! 

Weekly Investment Purchases, Dividends and Passive Income

Hi everyone,

I hope everyone is enjoying the weekend thus far.   I have plans to simply hang out with my family and get outdoors, weather permitting, as it seems the rain keeps coming.  It's nice to spend good quality time with the family after a long work week.  It's amazing how fast the little ones are growing up, so I try to spend every second with them before 'daddy' isn't as cool anymore and they want to be with friends more and more.   This post will detail my weekly activity, as I had several small automatic purchases and a few other purchases to add to existing portfolio holdings, dividends received and, lastly, semi-passive income generated from my rental property.   Here is the breakdown:

Purchases:

Special Agent Dividend's Dividend Growth Portfolio

The Walt Disney Co. (DIS) $50

Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) $50

Bank of America Corp. (BAC) $26.16 

Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI) $36

Total Purchases for the Week: $162.16

Dividends:

Target Corp. (TGT) $4.29

Unilever: (UL) $3.31

Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) $14.99 (DRIP)

Total Dividends for the Week: $22.59

Other Income: 

Rental Property - Payment received for March rent, which netted $295 in positive cash flow.   

Another week in the books and I was able to add a little to my portfolio, as every dime helps!   I used $162.16 to add to existing holdings, received $22.59 in dividends and netted $295 in passive income from rental property.   Well, that's it for this short post, as I'm off to spend time with the family.   Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Portfolio Update - First Half of 2015

Hi everyone,

 

As promised, I plan to update my portfolio, as I’ve kept busy plugging away with small purchases over the first half of the year.   As of today, my taxable account stands at $14,518.09, which is a long way from the 0 I started with less than a year ago.  The funny thing is, I honestly do not even miss that money used to invest, which would have simply been blown on something in years prior.  This amount is spread out over 19 different companies, as I’m slowly growing my position in each (with the exception of the spin-off South32).  Currently, my largest holding is Apple Inc. (AAPL), followed by BP.  My forward annual dividend income now stands at $517.29, which as mentioned in my last post, surpasses my first half of 2015 goal of $500!!  Of note, my newest holding is The Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), along with the General Electric Company (GE) and Realty Income Corporation (O).  I’ve slowly added to these new positions and will continue adding on a monthly basis for the time being, along with my other core holdings.  In addition to my holdings, I have saved some cash reserve to be used to purchase additional stock in my taxable account and ROTH IRA account. 

 

My retirement accounts have been accumulating as well during this first half of the year.  My Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) now stands at approximately $58,000 and a separate retirement savings account is currently at $10,200.  With these accounts and my taxable portfolio, the investments total approximately $82,718.  This total does not include my investment property that is currently rented, but is substantial growth from where I started last year.   I’m hoping to hit the first big milestone soon on my journey, which is 100k!!  I’m really hoping to reach that mark by the end of the year and will actively be investing as much as possible to meet the goal. 

 

Without further ado, here is my current holdings in the taxable portfolio. 

 

Taxable Portfolio as of July 4, 2015

Company	Shares	Market Value	Market Weight	Yield	Quarterly Dividend / Share	Annual Dividend
AAPL	21.758	$2,751.08	18.95%	1.65%	0.52	$45.26
TGT	7.2976	$600.37	4.14%	2.72%	0.56	$16.35
KO	13.9513	$550.66	3.79%	3.34%	0.33	$18.42
GE	8	$214.16	1.48%	3.44%	0.23	$7.36
WMT	3.2775	$235.49	1.62%	2.73%	0.49	$6.42
MCD	4.1472	$398.75	2.75%	3.54%	0.85	$14.10
LMT	3.9135	$732.96	5.05%	3.20%	1.5	$23.48
COP	11.249317	$680.58	4.69%	4.83%	0.73	$32.85
VZ	12.868944	$607.03	4.18%	4.66%	0.55	$28.31
XOM	12.166682	$1,011.42	6.97%	3.51%	0.73	$35.53
PG	8.026034	$641.36	4.42%	3.32%	0.6629	$21.28
DIS	7.694	$884.35	6.09%	1.15%	0.33	$10.16
F	52.381	$778.91	5.37%	4.03%	0.15	$31.43
BP	38.062	$1,571.96	10.83%	5.81%	0.6	$91.35
UL	9.9683	$428.14	2.95%	2.97%	0.319	$12.72
BBL	21.594	$860.74	5.93%	6.22%	0.62	$53.55
BNS	21	$1,061.76	7.31%	4.33%	0.5468	$45.93
O	10	$453.90	3.13%	5.02%	0.57	$22.80
SOUHY	8	$54.48	0.38%	0.00%	0	$0.00
Total Value		$14,518.09		3.56%	Est Annual Dividend	$517.29

 

As noted in my last post, I plan on updating this blog regularly now that I have additional time after I had to take a hiatus for the first part of the year.  Thanks for stopping by and please feel free to leave a comment, question or suggestion.  Happy 4th of July! 

Special Agent Dividend

Portfolio and Addition of Portfolio Page

Hi everyone,

At the suggestion of  Write Your Own Reality, I’m planning on creating a portfolio page.  This page will be updated at the first of the month (or when I find some time near the first).  Of course, I will be documenting all my purchases on a weekly basis through postings on agentdividend.com.  The portfolio will only include my individual stocks that I hold, and will not include my Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) and other mutual funds.  It is a work in progress, as I’m trying to build from scratch after I began this long journey three months ago.  I welcome any comments, suggestions or critiques, as that is what I love about our investing community.  We are all here on the same journey and I’d love to help others achieve their goals and welcome the opinion of others to assist me on my way. 

As of today, the value of the Non-Top Secret Portfolio stands at $9,265.17.  It consists of seventeen (17) companies, which are all in the phase of me building a full position.  My largest holding is Apple Inc. (AAPL), as it was the first individual stock purchase I made when I began the journey.  While it is not a stereotypical dividend investor’s stock, per se, I believe the growth of the dividend will rise dramatically, along with capital gains.   In addition, I’ve been adding some energy/oil based companies of late, as I find them to be at the best value at the moment in this bull market.  Here is my current portfolio, as of November 26, 2014:

Non-Top Secret Portfolio

Company	Shares	Market Value	Market Weight	Yield	Quarterly Dividend	Annual Dividend
AAPL	21.4762	$2,553.52	27.56%	1.58%	0.47	$40.38
TGT	6.831	$491.76	5.31%	2.89%	0.52	$14.21
KO	10.878	$481.03	5.19%	2.76%	0.305	$13.27
DPS	1.409	$102.77	1.11%	2.25%	0.41	$2.31
WMT	2.2551	$191.41	2.07%	2.26%	0.48	$4.33
MCD	4.0454	$389.33	4.20%	3.53%	0.85	$13.75
LMT	1.791737	$338.76	3.66%	3.28%	1.55	$11.11
COP	3.621294	$258.20	2.79%	4.10%	0.73	$10.57
VZ	4.709731	$234.73	2.53%	4.41%	0.55	$10.36
XOM	5.482361	$520.61	5.62%	2.91%	0.69	$15.13
INTC	0.8934	$32.87	0.35%	2.45%	0.225	$0.80
PG	3.798822	$337.15	3.64%	2.90%	0.6436	$9.78
DIS	3.5071	$321.95	3.47%	0.94%	0.215	$3.02
F	51	$797.64	8.61%	3.20%	0.125	$25.50
BP	22	$917.40	9.90%	5.76%	0.6	$52.80
UL	5.4777	$227.98	2.46%	3.48%	0.3625	$7.94
BBL	21	$1,068.06	11.53%	4.88%	0.62	$52.08
Total Value		$9,265.17		3.10%	Est Annual Dividend	$287.35

I’ll be adding a page of my blog with this information later today.  Thank you again for all the support. 

Special Agent Dividend