Happy Saturday everyone! Quick update on activities this week (and a few I missed from the prior week).
Dividend Increases (Feb 25th)
Sempra grows dividend by 4.1%, reaching 12th consecutive annual increase
Sempra announced its next dividend of $1.145 per share, a 4.1% increase over the company's previous payout of $1.10.
The multi-state utility generates steady cash flow and offers a well-covered dividend. The company's rate base has nearly tripled in the last four years, setting the stage for future payout growth.
Your annual income increased $5.58 as a result.
- BKH - $59.50
- AFL - $40
- KR - $21
- V - $8.63
- XYLD - $67.69
- PFE - $40
Trades
Added 100 shares of $SCHQ this week as I continue the theme of defensive investing for the time being.
Options Activity
Good opportunity in rebalancing to acquire stocks using cash-secured puts. Selling cash-secured puts gives you the obligation to purchase a stock at a strike price if the underlying price goes below strike. You collect a premium for selling the put. If the strike price is under the price at time of expiration, you keep the premium, so it's a nice way to make a few bucks on a stock you were going to buy anyways.
- My Verizon shares were assigned at $54 a few weeks back. Made ~$83 this week through trading a few cash secured puts this week floating around the strike price. I'll continue to trade some cash secured puts on this ultimately acquiring before the 04/03 ex-dividend date.
- Got killed on my Kroger covered call, ultimately having having to buy back by $47 call for ~$500 more than I received. Fortunately the stock rose another 6% on Friday. While I'm a big fan of Kroger, this type of growth in two days seems overblown, so I bought 6 $60 04/01 puts to hopefully capture some correction in the next few days.
- No other activity this week.
- Continue to take time to learn more about macro investing. Given the volatility lately, I think there's some educated bets to be placed.
- I think I can integrate into the portfolio via asset & sector allocation management. I'm not a fan of day trading, but I like the concept of smart swing trading when highs and lows are involved.
- Evaluate covered call opportunities.
- The portfolio rebalance introduced a lot more positions of 100 shares or more, so I can take better advantage of covered calls.
- Slowly shrink number of positions to ~40 while maintaining a strategic sector breakdown focused on macro trends.
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