Dividend Buy Log

Yesterday, I added $STLA to the portfolio for 16 shares @ $9.48.

Limit sell order in place for $19.01 GTC

With my usual $141 contribution and some leftover sales proceeds, bought:

2 shares of $TROW
1 share of $VTRS
1 share of $XRAY
1 share of $WU

Dividend yields are north of 4.30% for each.

Tuesday’s transactions:

Sells:
4 shares $MGA for $3.29 net profit

Buys:
9 shares of $MNRO
2 shares of $MRK

August dividends totaled $78.98 🤑

On my ending value of $9,234.66 — that’s an annualized yield of 10.26%.

Been a fun journey so far, learning about monthly paying ETFs, 19-1a notice Return of Capital, & qualified dividends.

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Global X liquidated $QDCC 😱

My investment of $145.05 on 8/05/25 liquidated to… $146.33 🤷‍♂️

Added 1 share each of $YBTC, $REYN, and $YMAX.

Initiated positions between $142.23 and $168.05 in each of these equities:

$AEO
$APA
$CTRA
$KFRC
$KMT
$REYN
$SWK
$WGO

The lowest dividend yield among them is 3.7%.

$CRI has a dividend yield of ~3.80%.

On Friday, I sold down $SDIV to 7 shares ($168.14) and sold out of $SRLN for dividend tax reasons (to hold in ROTH instead).

With sale proceeds, I added 6 shares of $CRI.

Will add more positions tomorrow with remaining proceeds.

Added 5 shares of $CANQ at a yield of ~4.55%.

The 19(a) notice estimates Return on Capital as 32.48%, so I think my tax rate is ~16.20% on the dividends.

Used cash proceeds from yesterday to add:

$CVS, 3 shares
DINO, 3 shares
$DVY, 1 share
$EMN, 3 shares
$MGA, 4 shares
$TGT, 2 shares
$UVV, 3 shares
$VTRS, 14 shares

Aiming for qualified dividends.

Sold $FIRI, $UEVM, $UIVM, & $XCCC today for dividend tax reasons. Going to own them in a retirement account instead.

Also, for dividend tax advantage purposes, sold $RIET and $AAA to invest in $IAUI and $YMAX.

$IAUI pays fluctuating monthly dividends, currently ~12.66%. Cumulative ROC is 89% as of July 2025.

$YMAX pays fluctuating weekly dividends, currently ~57.29%. ROC was 55.86% for week of Aug. 8, 2025.

Added 5 shares of $LKQ for yield-on-cost of 4.04%.

Sold out of $SRET to add 2 shares of $WHR for dividend tax advantage reasons. Every penny counts 🤷‍♂️

$WHR has a yield-on-cost of 4.21%, including the impact of a recent dividend cut.

Added these by selling a few older positions back down to ~$141:

FGSI - Dividend Equity + Call Options
SCHD - Large Cap Equity Dividend
SDVD - SMid Cap Equity Dividend
SRET - Global REIT
YBTC - Bitcoin Covered Call Options

Good morning, cuties and sweeties. I hope something in life fills you with wonder today.

#morning #cuties #sweeties #whimsy #wonder #ethereal #magical #memes

Components:

AAA
ALTY
BAGY
BITY
BNDI
BTCI
CDX
CMCSA
FCEF
FIRI
FTBI
FTKI
GYLD
HYBI
IWMI
KNG
MDIV
MTBA
PAPI
PEY
PFFR
QDCC
RDVI
RIET
RYLD
RYLG
SDIV
SLNZ
SRLN
UEVM
UIVM
WU
XCCC
XRAY

A few positions are being sold off slowly for tax reasons. More to add.

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🚨 Resetting my $8,560 portfolio 🚨

… to allocations of ~$141 for each unique equity or ETF 💎🙌

That means 1 NEW equity or ETF added each Monday by my $141 contribution + re-invested dividends.

$4.70 of divs from $ICLO on Fri.

Added 8 shares of $FIRI today 🔥

Looking at ETF ideas with high % Return of Capital 👀 — drastically reduces tax drag on dividends.

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Purchased 7 shares of $FIRI, a fund-of-funds.

$FIRI’s target annual income is 4% … BUT … it is on pace for dividends of ~13.08% this year.

A downside is it has YieldMax funds - I’m not a fan 😅

I suspect you’re right; won’t add to it, TY 🙏 Earnings yield (poor quality 😰) is right at divi. yield. Tariffs might wreck companies w/ payout ratios >100%.

Speculative position on weak dollar and hedging Fed cutting to 1%.

Was considering $GYLD instead, but fear that to be a worse yield trap 😅

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Traded away 56 shares of $PFFR 🤝 and added 9 shares of $SDIV + 14 shares of $UIVM.

I prefer foreign assets to domestic assets seeing the YTD trend of a depreciating dollar.

Your Sunday reminder that…

DIVIDENDS

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KILLER ☠️

💋

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Dividend received💰from $UEVM, an emerging market equity ETF 🌎

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🚨 Sold $DEM and $FGD 😵‍💫

Why? I want to instead invest in monthly dividend payers with high diversification (each portfolio component is ideally less than 2%).

Call it a monthly free lunch? Or a Kelly Criterion play? 🤔 🤷‍♂️ Anyways…

Re-invested into $UEVM 🤑 and building a position in $SDIV.

Received $14.86 of dividends between $XCCC & $SRLN 🙌

Got a venti cold brew instead of grande — the only lifestyle creep you’ll see from me! 😆 ☕️

Today, my $141 contribution + received dividends will buy $FGD 🤑

True insight! Funny too this is my 2nd go — liquidated the 1st iteration at +$30k a year ago 😑 So dividends feel especially tiny now 😅 Am grateful at least dividends remain possible to be collected & to be on the hedonic treadmill 😂🤴

$FGD’s top 10 holding $ENG.MC appears to be Enagas S.A. trading on the “Mercado Continuo” of the BME Spanish Exchanges (Madrid)

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First dividend received here 🤑:
$3.00 from $SLNZ

Put it on a wall 🫵

(Though I did add 10 shares since after the ex-dividend date 😜)

On the next 7 Mondays, I’ll be DCA’ing (dollar cost averaging) into $FGD for exposure to Foreign Large Value (developed-market).

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Starting positions of my fledgling portfolio & dividend yields:

$AAA ~ 5.53%
$DEM ~ 5.08%
$ICLO ~ 5.68%
$PFFR ~ 8.04%
$SLNZ ~ 7.15%
$SRLN ~ 7.46%
$XCCC ~ 9.91%