I’m reporting my automatic purchases for this past week:
I Bought:
$350 of JNJ
$450 of COP
I used $800 in new capital and added $28.40/year to my dividend income. This is an average yield of about 3.5%.
Note:
I decided to add a small amount to JNJ. I’d like to try and diversify out of energy whenever possibly. Plus, like KO, there really isn’t any opportunities to pick up this stock at much of a discount. They are one of the few companies I still drip but it has fallen behind my average weight. I’d like to bring the company up to a full weight this year along with some of my other medical positions like BDX and MDT.
Energy companies continue to perform poorly compared to the rest of the market, mainly due to a low price of crude. As I’m still aggressively building my portfolio, I plan to keep putting funds in this sector while prices are low. I know oil will rebound but just don’t know when.
I hope everyone is having a Happy New Year!
Picture:
Just for some fun and to add some color I will be posting pictures of places I’ve been to. It’s also motivation to reach FI so I can travel and do what I want to when I want to.
Continuing the Portland series; This is another shot outside of Rogue Brewing.
Thanks for sharing your recent buys with us. I know it can be tough at times to diversify out of energy into other names that seem to always be expensive. JNJ, CL, CLX, PG, etc. There are so many high quality names out there that I would love to add to but usually wait and wait and wait to pull the trigger. Sometimes high quality names always have a premium attached.
DivHut recently posted…End Of Year DivHut Blog Stats
Nice buys! I have a quick question. When you say you want to bring up your JNJ up to full weight, does that mean you are bringing it up to a full position? If so, what do you consider a full position? Do you go buy percentage, number of stock or dollar amount? I am new to DGI so I apologize for the simple question.
Ron recently posted…Running In The Dark
I haven’t dabbled in energy sector for a while now, began adding again last week with BBL and NML(a closed end MLP fund). I know I will not be able to determine a bottom, but like you I can see when things are cheap!
Great buys, I’m hoping to add more money in JNJ this year.
Tawcan recently posted…Recent buys
How much more are you going to put toward oil related stocks? I dont want to overly weight my portfolio right now with them but dont want to miss out on these cheap deals either!
Asset Grinder recently posted…December 2014 Dividend , Options , Adsense and Interest monthly report
Great. I think I’m purchasing the same.
Christopher James recently posted…poker free bet