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Old 10-31-2008, 08:05 PM   #1
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What 10 individual stocks would you pick to create a well diversified portfolio?

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Old 10-31-2008, 08:11 PM   #2
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10 stocks would be an incredibly non-diversified portfolio.

Go to the FAQs for suggestions on reading and answers to many basic investing questions.

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Old 10-31-2008, 08:15 PM   #3
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10 stocks would be an incredibly non-diversified portfolio.

Go to the FAQs for suggestions on reading and answers to many basic investing questions.

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thanks, however, I'm past the 101 stage..This is the fun money part of my portfolio...looking for 10 solid dividend payers..anyone?
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Old 10-31-2008, 08:38 PM   #4
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Since you are past 101 stage, I'll let you build a diversified portfolio. But a few names with a history of reliable (and increasing) dividends: General Electric, Johnson and Johnson, Procter and Gamble, Exxon Mobil, Pfizer, Walmart, Home Depot, US Bank...
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Old 10-31-2008, 08:59 PM   #5
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Why bother with those 10 stocks of FIREDreamer since they read like the top 10 of the S&P500? Why not just go out and buy 10 different ETFs you like? You can start with SPY.
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Old 10-31-2008, 11:03 PM   #6
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I'll try--

MO, USB, PG, GE, KO, O, NUE, JNJ, MMM, MSFT

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Old 11-01-2008, 12:03 AM   #7
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EMR, GE, ITW, JNJ, KIM, KO, MMM, PG, SYY, WRE

which is very close to my actual portfolio
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thanks, however, I'm past the 101 stage.
It reminds me of the old joke about starting with a 401(k) and having a 101(k).

How 'bout the ten largest holdings in the ETFs DVY (Dow dividend), PID (Powershares International Dividend), and IJS (S&P600 Small-cap Value)...
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Old 11-01-2008, 08:21 AM   #9
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I was going to start this thread.

I owned (and still own) the ETF, DVY, which was hammered, in part, because it became top-heavy with financial stocks and took a terrible hit. I wondered if I could do some kind of reasonable job putting together a basket of decent yielding stocks. Now I'm going to find out.

The stocks I've started with are:

SYY; UTX; NUE (that's Sysco, United Technologies and Nucor). I plan on adding ITW and EMR (Illinois Tool Works and Emerson Electric). The stocks mentioned above all pay something slightly north of 3%. That may not sound like much, but historically that's about twice what they usually pay out.

Two other stocks I own exclusively for their yields and are much riskier than the ones already mentioned:

WRI: Weingarten Realty which is currently paying 10% and NLY:Annaly Capital which is paying 13.8% I've owned these two for awhile and it's just a greed thing. I wouldn't recommend either of them.

Many of the other stocks that I am interested in have already been mentioned in the previous posts.
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Old 11-01-2008, 08:37 AM   #10
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Just buy VEIPX and be done with it.
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Old 11-01-2008, 08:54 AM   #11
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Just buy VEIPX and be done with it.
VEIPX is currently yielding 3.79% taxable according to VG. This is surprisingly low considering that you can get 3.74% federal tax-free with VG's Limited-Term Tax-Exempt Fund. Of course, there are lots of factors to consider, so this alone doesn't make VEIPX a bad investment. If the stock market booms, you could get a nice bounce in VEIPX considering how badly it has been hammered the last few weeks.
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Old 11-01-2008, 09:04 AM   #12
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Most of my suggestions have already been named.
I would add DEO. Especially for diversification as it is a good solid foreign company.
If the InBev-Bud deal falls through, I would add BUD after the crash in BUD stock price.
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If I was to pick 10 stocks diversified as a portfolio, I would want a combination of very secure large company dividend stocks with solid prospects for dividend growth along with a few more speculative plays with a target of 4 percent toal yield.

The following are all DJIA stocks with a Value Line rated of "1" for safety and the following dividend yields and VL expected dividend growth rates, This would comprise 80 percent of my dividend portfolio:
KO - Coca Cola Enterprises 3.45 - 7%
MCD - Mc Donalds 3.53 - 16%
HD - Home Depot 3.82 - 9%
JNJ - Johnson and Johnson 3.00 - 8.5%
T - AT&T 5.98 - 11.5%
MSFT - Microsoft 2.33 - 18%

This portion of the portfolio would earn 3.685 dividend yield and would provide a portfolio yield of 3 percent even if the remainder of the portfolio would go to zero.

To those I would add 4 stocks that would comprise the other 20% of my portfolio:
FUN - Cedar Fair Amusement 10.38
WRE - Washington REIT 5.77
ABX - Barricks Gold 1.76
ITW - Illinois Toolworks 3.86

This portion of the portfolio would earn 5.44% dividends. The total portfolio yield is 4.0365% which should also grow faster than inflation.
The one possible change I could see made is to swap out Astoria Financial AF 5.47% yield for Cedar Fair amusement park, this drops total portfolio yield to 3.8 percent --below my preset target.
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FWIW the Nov 5th Standard and Poor's The Outlook has a suggested list of dividend stocks across 10 sectors. I read it online free from my broker, but it is also usually available in your local library. It has CTL as one of the picks with an 11% yield.
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Old 11-01-2008, 02:07 PM   #15
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Ok, Heres my take

Large Cap - MO, PMI, KFT, SSL, PFE, GE

REIT - AMY, SPPR

MLP - EVEP

CANROY - BTE

I own them all.

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Old 11-01-2008, 05:29 PM   #16
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thanks to all who have contributed
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One more for you. Exxon has been mentioned a lot, but you might take a look at Chevron. Pays a higher dividend than Exxon. Currently yielding 3.5% but just a few days ago it was above 4%. And it may be in that range again soon.

http://www.valueline.com/dow30/f1936.pdf
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My thought is if I was using individual stocks I would have 3 tiers of dividends

1) stable- around 5-8 stocks similar to the question you originally posed. This would be half the dollar amount of the total investment.
2) REITs, utilities and a foreign stock or two- any other high yield entity, double the number of stocks above with 25% of the investment
3) small caps and mid caps which pay a dividend. The goal here is more capital appreciation that yield, but all holdings need to pay a dividend. ALD would be a good example (granted I have not looked at the stock in a long time, but it is a mid cap stock which used to pay a high dividend. Again 2X the number of stocks with 25% of the total investment.
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Some that I own: GE, SO, PFE, MO, and two ETFs (VYM, DVY). VYM has less exposure to financials than DVY.
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