Comments on A Slacker's Quest: Dividend Portfolio Update

Thanks for your comment, shahedWHAT. You're right ...

2009-02-12T16:36:00.000-05:00

Thanks for your comment, shahedWHAT. You're right about the DRIP (I assume you mean having the dividends be reinvested in the stocks automatically as they come in), and I would do it with my own money.

I'm not doing it here for two reasons:

1. With so many stocks it's a real pain to do the dividend reinvestment in the spreadsheet. I've been doing it with my sample ETF portfolio (though I've been busy and haven't updated it in a while). Also, as I wanted to concentrate on dividend return, I thought it would be hard to track that if dividends were reinvested all the time. So, basically, I'm lazy.

2. With a DRIP, dividends are reinvested into the company that paid the dividend. But what if the company is overvalued at the time? If I can take all the dividends and invest the sum into the company that is least overvalued/most undervalued, that might be better.

Hi,

I was wondering why you don't just set-...

2009-02-12T09:01:00.000-05:00

Hi,

I was wondering why you don't just set-up a DRIP in your portfolio? It would make sense in the type of portfolio you have...

Thanks,

S

Dividends Anonymous, a dividend raise in the curre...

2008-12-15T16:29:00.000-05:00

Dividends Anonymous, a dividend raise in the current environment isn't better than nothing, it's pretty good!

Bill,

Counting only the holdings that pay a stable dividend (that is, excluding DEO, ENB, FRO, LFC, OKS, SI, SNY, whose payouts are different every time because they depend on earnings or cashflow, and VNQ, which is an ETF) the portfolio's indicated annualized yield is 3.69% or 0.3075% per month. This should increase over time.

What is the average dividend yield your portfolio ...

2008-12-15T12:20:00.000-05:00

What is the average dividend yield your portfolio is returning to you every month?

Thanks for the update on the portfolio. Progress h...

2008-12-14T17:51:00.000-05:00