Pepsi one of my most important DRIP stocks I have in my portfolio. One of the reasons I choose PepsiCo is because if its strong brand and yearly dividend raise. I assume there will be a dividend raise this year also, something in the $0.47-$0.50 range.
Good luck fellow DRIP investors :=) !
I finally got started with drip investing. My plan is to put away roughly $100 per month in:
Coca Cola
Kraft Foods
PepsiCo
Mcdonalds
Nestle N
Procter&Gamble
That’s $100 each so I’m putting away a total of $600 in to drip stocks. And Ofcourse all dividends are automatically reinvested.
I’ve already started my portfolio:
| Coca Cola | 10.01232 | |||
| Kraft Foods Inc | 19.53017 | |||
| Lloyds Bank | 904.95675 | |||
| McDonalds | 9.04382 | |||
| Nestle N | 1.44546 | |||
| PepsiCo | 9.28586 | |||
| Procter&Gamble | 1.17167 |
Conservative portfolio except lloyds bank. I think Lloyds Bank will be a good investment in the long run and I can afford one risky investment in my portfolio considering how safe the other companies are. Also note that reason it’s approximately 900 shares is because I bought the Lloyd shares on the london exchange where the price differ quite alot. My first minor goal besides the obvious million dollar goal is to receive $100 in dividends every quarter. I will probably achieve that goal fast. My DRIP portfolio is worth $3200 at the moment.
Status:
Net Worth: $51000
Holdings,
Cash:
$12800 - I will invest it soon.
Stocks/Funds:
$4200 in emerging markets funds.
$3200 in DRIP stocks.
Real estate:
One apartment, market price = $105000
Loans:
$71583 real estate loan.
$800 cash loan.
Why do people keep posting beautiful graphs of performance when you reinvest dividend stocks versus no reinvestments and then point out the huge difference in return. People almost never mention the fact that when you get dividend and don’t it reinvest in the same stock you still actually have the money you received. Yes, it doesn’t disappear did you know that?
For example, if you have a stock A that pays 5% dividend and you chose to get the dividend in cash and invest the money in another stock. Than you have to calculate the return on the other stock you invested in to get the total return. Keep that in mind the next you read about dividend reinvesting. Getting dividend in cash and waiting for a market correction is not a bad idea either if you think there is a high chance that the market is heading south.
