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As many of you know the Ultimate Sustainable dividend portfolio was built over a year ago as an attempt to slowly become financially free. I usually do monthly updates but I got late on this latest update and one month slow became 2-3… but I’m back, and ready to get more active:) There is certainly good and bad news here:
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Without further wait, let’s get started. Here are the portfolio holdings as of last night:
| Ticker | Name | Shares | Mar 18 Prices | Mar 18 Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OMC | Omnicom Group Inc | 34 | $78.13 | $2,656.42 |
| MSFT | Microsoft Corp | 77 | $42.50 | $3,272.50 |
| JCI | Johnson Controls Inc | 45 | $50.28 | $2,262.60 |
| PEP | PepsiCo Inc/NC | 33 | $94.64 | $3,123.12 |
| ETN | Eaton Corp | 36 | $68.52 | $2,466.72 |
| DOV | Dover Corp | 29 | $72.10 | $2,090.90 |
| ITW | Illinois Tool Works Inc | 31 | $99.81 | $3,094.11 |
| XLNX | Xilinx Inc | 42 | $41.60 | $1,747.20 |
| SJM | JM Smucker Co/The | 24 | $112.61 | $2,702.64 |
| BLK | BlackRock Inc | 16 | $377.76 | $6,044.16 |
| TROW | T Rowe Price Group Inc | 34 | $83.88 | $2,851.92 |
| OXY | Occidental Petroleum Corp | 27 | $74.01 | $1,998.27 |
| CRC | California Resources | 10 | $7.08 | $70.80 |
| XOM | Exxon Mobil Corp | 24 | $86.07 | $2,065.68 |
| ADI | Analog Devices Inc | 49 | $59.67 | $2,923.83 |
| HAS | Hasbro Inc | 34 | $61.43 | $2,088.62 |
| MAT | Mattel Inc | 48 | $23.96 | $1,150.08 |
| AFL | Aflac | 34 | $63.62 | $2,163.08 |
| BAX | Baxter International | 29 | $68.55 | $1,987.95 |
| IVZ | Invesco Ltd | 72 | $41.78 | $3,008.16 |
| CVX | Chevron | 23 | $106.70 | $2,454.10 |
| TXN | Texas Instruments Inc | 35 | $58.30 | $2,040.50 |
| VWO | Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets | 62 | $40.94 | $2,538.28 |
| BND | Vanguard Total Bond Market | 39 | $83.35 | $3,250.65 |
| Cash | $4,445.35 | |||
| USDP | $64,497.64 | |||
| SPX | 18.0277627 | $3,861.45 | $69,613.34 |
Dividends Received
This is a very interesting portion as there is solid growth in the monthly income
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Returns
This is unfortunately the bad part in terms of now lagging the S&P500 total return index by a few thousand dollars, there are a few factors that would explain the lag, the main ones in my opinion:
-oil: the USDP has a lot more correlation with the price of oil than the S&P500 which certainly played a role
-bonds: we added some other types of exposure such as bonds, through ETF’s which will tend to outperform in tough markets and underperform in rising ones.
-Mattel: clearly, this has been a difficult one to hold on to and I’ll certainly review it but just look at this chart:
-bonds: we added some other types of exposure such as bonds, through ETF’s which will tend to outperform in tough markets and underperform in rising ones.
-Mattel: clearly, this has been a difficult one to hold on to and I’ll certainly review it but just look at this chart:
Trades
With almost $5000 in cash in the portfolio, it will soon be time to start trading, expect some news on that front perhaps as soon as next week.
