Hello!  I’ve got something a little different for you today.  I’m going to take the stocks in my Portfolio (all 52 of them) and rank them in a few different categories.

What falls out should provide some interesting takes on my Portfolio.

Here are the questions that will be answered in this post…

• Which stocks have secured my largest/smallest capital investment?
• Which stock positions have had the most/least reinvested dividends?
• Which stock positions have my largest/smallest cost basis?
• Which stock positions are my largest/smallest by Portfolio value?
• Which stocks provide the most/least annual forward dividend income for my Portfolio?

 

Some of this information can be gleaned from my Portfolio page, but the stocks are not ranked there, making it more difficult to quickly compare the stocks.

I’ll add my thoughts on various rankings as we go along.

In any case, I hope you find this enjoyable.  Let’s get started…

 

Note that all these rankings are as of May 31st, 2021.

 

Rank by Capital Investment

Qualcomm (QCOM) has garnered my largest capital investment… and by a decent margin, too.  A few other Technology names populate the top 10 rankings in Broadcom (AVGO), Automatic Data Processing (ADP) and Skyworks Solutions (SWKS).

AVGO, ADP and Merck & Co. (MRK) are positions I only opened since March of last year.  So, you can tell I’ve worked to build these positions in short order.

As for the smallest investment, that belongs to W.P. Carey (WPC).  Another couple of REITs in Iron Mountain (IRM) and Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI) are also at the bottom of these rankings.  However, it’s not always because I invested so little over the years, but rather the fact that I’ve trimmed many of my REIT holdings over time, and that lowered my net capital investment for these stocks.

 

Rank by Reinvested Dividends

The first thing to notice here is that my top 5 for reinvested dividends are my 5 legacy stocks – the ones that I’ve owned since the mid-to-late 1990s.  In the case of Procter & Gamble (PG), RPM International (RPM), Pepsico (PEP) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), I’ve collected and reinvested over $3,350 each.  This is more than my capital investment in any of them (meaning over 100% payback for each of them).  As for the $3,800 from RPM that I’ve reinvested, that’s 240% payback of my capital investment in the stock… amazing.

There are 17 stocks that have crossed the $1K mark for reinvested dividends.  This will be 18 once I receive the next dividend for Altria Group (MO) in July.

At the bottom of this ranking are 4 stocks that have yet to have a dividend reinvestment.  Amgen (AMGN), NextEra Energy (NEE) and Pinnacle West Capital (PNW) were all recent Portfolio additions, and my first dividend from each of these companies is coming in June.  As for The Walt Disney Co. (DIS), they suspended their dividend a couple of months after I initiated my position in the stock (in March, 2020), so they’ll be all by their lonesome at the bottom of the list very soon.

 

Rank by Cost Basis

Cost Basis is the sum of the Net Capital Investment and the Reinvested Dividends (i.e. the first two categories I ranked above).

Given that I invested the most capital in QCOM, and the fact that the company pays a nice dividend (providing more to reinvest), it should be no surprise that I find QCOM at the top of this list.  In fact, it’s currently the only stock to have crossed the $10K level.

My average cost basis per stock is $5,843.96, putting Comcast (CMCSA) slightly above average, and Visa (V) slightly below.

All stocks have a cost basis over $1K.  Portfolio newcomers NEE and PNW share the bottom spot right now due to an identical capital investment and no reinvested dividends yet.  However, given that I own the same number of shares of each, and that the yield for PNW is much greater than that of NEE, expect to see NEE claim that last spot for its own in June.

 

Rank by Value

In my monthly Portfolio Thoughts posts I often cover my top 10 stocks ranked by Value.  However, here you’re going to get the entire ranked list.  Woohoo!

Once again, QCOM tops this ranking.  It’s 1 of 4 stocks that are over $20K in value in my Portfolio.

There are 25 stocks with at least $10K in value – that’s nearly half the number of Portfolio stocks.

The average stock position is $10,997.19, so the Portfolio is a bit top heavy.  I’d like to increase the position size of several stocks near the bottom of my ranking… namely DIS (assuming the dividend returns), Lockheed Martin (LMT), AMGN and Microsoft (MSFT).  I would prefer that most of the stocks at the bottom of my ranking be my REITs or Utility stocks since they tend to have slower dividend growth.

 

Rank by Forward Dividends (or Dividend Weighting)

Here we get to see which stocks will pay the biggest dividend total over the coming year (assuming no additional purchases and no reinvested dividends).

Right now, my top stock with regard to forward dividend income is AbbVie (ABBV).  The stock’s high yield coupled with a decent share total leads to this ranking.

If you assume quarterly dividend payments for each stock, you’ll see that I currently have 10 stocks over the $400 annual dividend mark, meaning $100+ dividend payments each quarter.  So that’s 10 stocks which provide me with triple-digit dividend payments.  I hope to have RPM join the group by year’s end.

I have 5 stocks that don’t yet provide $100 in forward dividend income (AMGN, PNW, MSFT, NEE, DIS).  These are positions that are either very small, or semi-small with a very low yield.  In either case, I’d like to build that annual income for each to over $100.

 

Ranking Summary

Well, we’ve reached the best part in my mind – the ranking summary.  Here the stocks are listed by Ticker, in alphabetical order, with each of their category ranks side-by-side.

You can see how each stock fared across the board, comparing all rankings for a particular stock, yet quickly comparing to other stocks, as well.

 

One thing I liked seeing here was a handful of stocks that are low in my Cost Basis rankings, but high in my Value rankings.  This is usually an indication of some strong capital appreciation, especially for those stocks with shorter holding periods.

This group is led by RPM, but also includes Visa (V), Aflac (AFL) and Fastenal (FAST), among others.

 

These rankings are something I’ll probably plan to do on a periodic basis, in order to monitor the changes over time.  I hope you liked the post.

Did anything in the rankings stand out to you, or capture your interest?

Are there other category rankings you’d like to see?  If so, let me know in the Comments and I’ll consider including them the next time I do this.

I plan to do a separate post covering Yield and Yield On Cost (YOC) rankings, so that’s why those weren’t included here.

Until next time…