Dividend stocks portfolio – recent changes – April 2019

Intro..

For those of you new to this website, in this post, I discuss the recent changes I made in my dividend portfolios, and sometimes I discuss my portfolio diversification strategies as well.

Another month passed by with strong market return.

Value of my investment assets continued to move higher in April and hit a new high. Therefore, it is time to be a little quiet and sharpening up my buying power by paying down my debts.

I follow Warren Buffet’s famous quote of “Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.”

Actually, I purchased many stocks last December when the market was taking hard hit. To be honest, I did not catch the exact bottom, but I bought a few stocks much lower price than today’s value.

In fact, I borrowed some money to buy them, as I did not have enough cash reserve to deploy.

It was a risky move. Even I was a little nervous to do that. Nevertheless, I did it anyway.

Most of the purchases performed well for the last four months and helped to increase my net-worth.

Now, markets are near an all-time high. Thus, I should be a little quiet and paying down the debts so I can use them when opportunities arrive.

At the same time, I did not want to interrupt the compounding growth. Therefore, I keep reinvesting some dividends and purchasing some investments.

Compounding growth strategy is one of the best ways to build wealth for the long-term. It takes time but it will work for patient investors when you use it correctly.

There are so many great books about this compounding wealth building strategy. As a dividend investor, my favorite one is ‘Get Rich with Dividend – A proven system for earning double-digit returns‘ by Marc Lichtenfeld.

It is a U.S. book, but the concepts apply equally to Canadian stocks.

If you are a dividend investor, then it one of the best book you should read.

Now, let us look at the purchases I made last month.

Canadian portfolio

Last month, I purchased 10 shares TD bank stocks to bring my holding to 200 and bought 10 shares of Telus.

U.S portfolio

I did not make any changes in my U.S portfolio last month. A very quiet month.

International Portfolio

I added a few units of ZDH (Canadian hedged) international dividend ETFs to this portion.

Currently, I have around $10000 in my international portfolio, which is still less than 5% of my investment value. I will continue to build these positions to diversify my assets.

Here are the changes I made in my dividend portfolios in April 2019:

Disclaimer..

Please note the information posted on this website is the opinion of my own and should not be considered as professional financial advice. I am not a financial professional, and I can buy, sell, or hold any investment at any time.

Any transactions I publish on this website are not recommendations to buy or sell any securities or investments.

Please do your own research or consult with a qualified financial professional before even considering using the information obtained from this website.

The changes made in my Canadian portfolio in April 2019.

• Added 10 shares of TD at $74.68
• Added 10 shares of T (Telus) at $49.68

No changes were made in my U.S dividend portfolio in April 2019.

The changes made in my International dividend portfolio in April 2019.

• Added 16 units of ZDH at $22.13 (average price)

With recent changes and dividend hikes my yearly estimated passive income (EPI) hit to new high of $10818 in April 2019, with year-to-date gain around 7.79%.

I have updated the portfolio pages with these changes.

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