Post a CommentLast year I did some in-depth research to find long term sustainable dividend stocks and have been doing updates on this Ultimate Sustainable dividend portfolio since then in the attempt to show how well such a portfolio can perform over the long term but also show how I would manage such a portfolio. I have said it before, I do not believe in stocks that you can hold “forever”. Thus, even in a long term portfolio such as this one, I will end up making some trades from time to time. I did do one last month so nothing new is coming in April. I do discuss the search for new high quality sustainable dividend stocks that can be added in our free mailing list, if ever you would like to receive those types of updates, please join, it’s free:
Keep in mind that this portfolio was built by selecting 20 stocks out of thousands. The goal is not to pick the 20 best dividend stocks but rather to pick a diversified, high quality portfolio that will keep dividends increasing over time.
Here are the holdings as of last night to start off (please note that currently, dividends are not reinvested automatically through a DRIP strategy):
Ticker Name Shares Sept 13 Prices Sept 13 Values Apr 11 Prices April 11 Values
OMC Omnicom Group Inc 25.7 $38.91 $999.99 $48.20 $1,238.74
MSFT Microsoft Corp 38.4 $26.04 $999.94 $30.35 $1,165.25
JCI Johnson Controls Inc 34.8 $28.74 $1,000.15 $30.86 $1,073.93
PEP PepsiCo Inc/NC 16.5 $60.54 $998.91 $65.15 $1,074.98
ETN Eaton Corp 25.4 $39.31 $998.47 $46.16 $1,172.46
DOV Dover Corp 19.5 $51.20 $998.40 $60.15 $1,172.93
ITW Illinois Tool Works Inc 23 $43.41 $998.43 $55.36 $1,273.28
XLNX Xilinx Inc 32.2 $31.08 $1,000.78 $35.44 $1,141.17
SJM JM Smucker Co/The 14 $71.65 $1,003.10 $79.79 $1,117.06
BLK BlackRock Inc 6.6 $151.22 $998.05 $197.81 $1,305.55
TROW T Rowe Price Group Inc 19.9 $50.36 $1,002.16 $61.80 $1,229.82
OXY Occidental Petroleum Corp 12.4 $80.45 $997.58 $88.81 $1,101.24
COP ConocoPhillips 15.4 $64.76 $997.30 $73.55 $1,132.67
MUR Murphy Oil Corp 19.5 $51.33 $1,000.94
XOM Exxon Mobil Corp 14 $71.65 $1,003.10 $82.70 $1,157.80
ADI Analog Devices Inc 30 $33.28 $998.40 $37.94 $1,138.05
LLTC Linear Technology Corp 34.1 $29.33 $1,000.15 $32.14 $1,095.97
HAS Hasbro Inc 27.8 $36.03 $1,001.63 $36.03 $1,001.63
MAT Mattel Inc 37.9 $26.38 $999.61 $33.68 $1,276.47
INTC Intel Corp 48.2 $20.76 $1,000.63 $27.85 $1,342.37
AFL 24.42 $43.04 $1,051.04
Cash $2.27 $332.98
USDP USDP Total $20,000.00 $23,595.38
Dividends Received
Not much change here, March is done, April will be a slower month as was the case in January!:
Ultimate Sustainable Dividend Portfolio News
Ticker Name News
XLNX Xilinx Inc Dividend increase from $1.375 to $1.50, a 9.1% increase
Returns
A few bad performances ended up meaning that the USDP is slightly under-performing the S&P500.. hopefully not for long
Trades
After adding Aflac (AFL) in last month’s update, I do expect to keep more or less the same stocks for a while now. We’ll see how things go:)
Why are you not automatically reinvesting the DRIPs?
@Squeezer – Because for now I’d prefer to add different stocks, I might change that at some point
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