Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I like UWMC (currently at 8 percent yield). The company is a SPAC and it was a family business with the CEO being a large stakeholder. To me, that suggests the divi won’t dry up. Also Verizon is a good prospect. SPOK also has been very good. It might be a good time to look at Ford too. Currently priced low.
I'm the PP who posted I'm watching BMY and ARC--, my most recent large purchase was SPOK and it's done great. I'm not sure I would buy it now at its current priced, but maybe some. My one hesitation about VZ is the potential cost of the underground lead contamination. It could be massive. I have some and haven't sold, but am not adding because of that. Ford is on my watchlist too, though I tend to avoid car stocks.
Anonymous wrote:Dividend payers. Tobacco sector PM and MO. Energy XOM, DVN, and ENB. Utilities DUK. Healthcare MRK and AMGN. Financials RF HBAN Ally Citi bought in 2009 and during pandemic swoon. Food sector KHC MDLZ. Tech AVGO Telecom VZ
Some dividend payer ideas, some timely and a few not timely. You could use ETFs to get more diversification. Sectors out of favor today are Tobacco and most financials. MDLZ just reported great earnings and AVGO is my core Tech dividend payer. GL
Anonymous wrote:I like UWMC (currently at 8 percent yield). The company is a SPAC and it was a family business with the CEO being a large stakeholder. To me, that suggests the divi won’t dry up. Also Verizon is a good prospect. SPOK also has been very good. It might be a good time to look at Ford too. Currently priced low.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If you have a 4 million portfolio, you should be able to easily get 100k in dividend income. A stock with a 3% dividend provides 30k in income for every million invested.
Following/copying the Berkshire portfolio isn’t a bad idea. It’s not an apples to apples scenario since Berkshire negotiates prices and dividends. Half of Berkshire’s holding are in Apple. Great stock, but dividend is only .50 for the common investor. Not sure what it is for Berkshire.
+1. I was confused about OP’s math
I was thinking OP didn't want to convert all the way from growth to dividends.
OP--if you have any money at Fidelity I would use their stock screener tool to research stocks and their dividend view for your portfolio. I have done pretty well with setting that at the yields I'm looking for and then reviewing some of the research on it.
I have tilted towards growth stocks, so I go value-oriented for my dividend buys.
For Value/value-ish dividend buys, Jefferson Financial research is often the analysis I go to further and then maybe Ford Equity. If they don't rate it as a 1 or 2 buy, I don't do further research (you can also just screen for ones they list as a buy). Some people use multiple research orgs as a check and I usually do that too. I still always drill into the numbers myself a bit. If you're assembling a long-term stable-ish portfolio, you want to see a consistent history of dividends-- stable or growing, a good dividend sustainability metric, and a reasonable price for the stock. Industry diversity is important--you don't want to end up over tilted towards Industrials, Railroads, Health Care, Utilities, etc. as they are cyclical or subject to certain economic pressures. Even though you're focused on the income stream, you still need to think about the assets overall.
If this is more than you want to do, I also own Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index etf and use that as my benchmark comparison.
Right now looking at my watchlist, if I wanted to buy more individual stocks without doing further research I would buy
BMY
ARC
as they are both at prices I currently like. But they might not make sense in your portfolio.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If you have a 4 million portfolio, you should be able to easily get 100k in dividend income. A stock with a 3% dividend provides 30k in income for every million invested.
Following/copying the Berkshire portfolio isn’t a bad idea. It’s not an apples to apples scenario since Berkshire negotiates prices and dividends. Half of Berkshire’s holding are in Apple. Great stock, but dividend is only .50 for the common investor. Not sure what it is for Berkshire.
+1. I was confused about OP’s math
Anonymous wrote:If you have a 4 million portfolio, you should be able to easily get 100k in dividend income. A stock with a 3% dividend provides 30k in income for every million invested.
Following/copying the Berkshire portfolio isn’t a bad idea. It’s not an apples to apples scenario since Berkshire negotiates prices and dividends. Half of Berkshire’s holding are in Apple. Great stock, but dividend is only .50 for the common investor. Not sure what it is for Berkshire.