Bonus round to close out the year
AT&T (T): $7
Hormel (HRL): $7
Proctor & Gamble (PG): $7
Paychex (PAYX): $7
Kinder Morgan (KMI): $7
General Dynamics (GD): $7
Microsoft (MSFT): $7
Intel (INTC): $7
Chevron (CVX): $7
J.M. Smucker (SJM): $7
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Starbucks (SBUX): $3
Campbell's (CPB): $3
Verizon (VZ): $3
Realty Income (O): $3
GlobalXSuperdividend (SDIV): $1
Wisdom Tree Midcap Dividend Fund (DON): $1
Invesco High Dividend Low Volatility ETF (SPHD): $3
AGNC: $3
Stag Industrial (STAG): $3
Main Street Capital (MAIN): $1
GlobalX Nasdaq 100 Covered Call ETF (QYLD): $1
SJW Group (SJW): $3
Lockheed (LMT): $3
Exxon Mobil (XOM): $3
Man, done with the batches already. Getting a bonus wild card round in before the month's end will be pretty cool. It'll not only help wrap up the year, but hopefully get some momentum going for the year ahead.
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The 401k isn't quite the dividend engine that I had envisioned. There are only about a dozen or so funds to choose from, so when I first set it up, I had a fairly even spread across all of them. Diversification and balance seemed like the way to go. After all, this is the 401k we're talking about. It's heavy stuff. You want it to be sturdy and resilient so that your golden years can truly shine.
With dividends being the new name of the game, I decided it was time to tweak things a bit. There are quite a few funds that don't pay dividends, or at least show no evidence of it. As such, I decided to skim a little from the money that I was putting into a couple of those non-dividend funds and redirect it towards Publix stock.
It may seem counter-intuitive, moving from broader funds to a single company stock, but I think this is going to work out well in the long term. Not only does that help the company, but it gets me more shares, and subsequently, more dividend income. In addition, the dividends from the shares in the 401k actually do reinvest, so that will spur even more growth going forward. I was able to more than double the amount I was directing towards the stock, so it'll be interesting to see how that ends up working out over the course of the next couple of years.
On the off chance this doesn't work, and the rate of return isn't as good, I can always change it back or do another re-shuffle.
The cool thing about this is that it's still the same amount of money (sort of, we'll talk about that in the December dividend post,) but I'll still see a boost in income. Yeah, I can't touch it for another 20+ years, but it'll get that snowball rolling faster in the meantime.
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Afternoon off? Seems like as good a reason as any to buy some stocks.
Vanguard Total Market ETF (VTI): $7
Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (VYM): $7
Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO): $7
Vanguard US REIT Fund (VNQ): $7
Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (VIG): $7
Vanguard Utilities ETF (VPU): $7
Vanguard S&P 500 Growth ETF (VOOG): $7
iShares Dividend Growth ETF (DGRO): $7
Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF (SCHD): $7
Three rounds already? Eh, it works. I've got lost time for which to make up and I see no problem in picking up the pace in general. I maxed out this round too, so hopefully that'll help a little.
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Let's keep the momentum going, shall we?
3M (MMM): $4
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ): $4
Emerson (EMR): $4
PepsiCo (PEP): $4
AT&T (T): $4
Target (TGT): $4
McDonald's (MCD): $4
ConEd (ED): $4
Proctor & Gamble (PG): $4
Vanguard Total Market ETF (VTI): $4.07
Not sure how that seven cents appeared in my account. I generally just keep the cash balance to even dollar figures, but since it was there, I figured I might as well deploy it.
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Was going to try to lay low and do a whole "time skip" thing going into 2022, but when work annoys you, you've gotta buy the stocks. So, here we go.
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ): $4
Papa John's (PZZA): $4
Domino's (DPZ): $4
Yum! (YUM): $4
Exxon Mobil (XOM): $4
AT&T (T): $4
Verizon (VZ): $4
Realty Income (O): $4
Lockheed (LMT): $4
SJW (SJW): $4
Felt good to get back into it.
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