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Dividend King of the Week [BDX]

This week, three of the portfolio holdings ranked in the Top 10: FMCB, PPG, and SJW.

TickerAccount Value
FMCB3,195.00
PPG3,515.96
SJW3,338.37

The lowest amount belongs to FMCB. Earlier this week I placed a GTC limit order to acquire another share of FMCB at $975 (see 2024-12-01 post) and that order has not executed. The truth is, acquiring one more share of FMCB at its current price of $1,065 would create a position imbalance within the portfolio, leaving only ABBV, PII, EPD, FRT, and NNN eligible for additional investment. Unfortunately, none of these positions made the Top Ten. That can only mean one thing:

It is time to add a new position to the Portfolio for the Ages!

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Placing an Order in Anticipation [FMCB]

Over the last few weeks, Royal Dividends has been alternatively adding to the SJW and PPG positions, and to a lesser degree, GRC, TGT, and MDT. However, FMCB has been in the Top Ten each week, but its price has managed to climb just enough to avoid being the portfolio stock with the lowest amount in the Top Ten. It is just a matter of time before another share of FMCB is officially recommended, so I want to be proactive.

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Dividend King of the Week [SJW][9]

This week, four of the portfolio holdings ranked in the Top Ten: FMCB, PPG, QCOM, and SJW.

TickerAccount Value
FMCB3,270.00
PPG3,482.36
QCOM3,646.19
SJW3,231.76

The lowest amount belongs to SJW which last traded at $55.72. Therefore, I will acquire 5 shares of SJW on Monday. Please see the post on 2024-11-16 for a high-level look at SJW’s performance over the last 16 years. Below, is the purchase history and average cost calculation.

Dividend King of the Week [PPG][9]

This week, four of the portfolio holdings ranked in the Top Ten: FMCB, PPG, QCOM, and SJW.

TickerAccount Value
FMCB3,108.00
PPG3,066.25
QCOM3,606.17
SJW3,234.08

The lowest amount belongs to PPG which last traded at $122.65. Therefore, I will acquire 3 shares of PPG on Monday. Please see the post on 2024-11-09 for a high-level look at PPG’s performance over the last 16 years. Below, is the purchase history and average cost calculation.

Dividend King of the Week [SJW][8]

This week, three of the portfolio holdings ranked in the Top Ten: FMCB, PPG, and SJW.

TickerAccount Value
FMCB2,970.15
PPG3,063.25
SJW2,904.40

The lowest amount belongs to SJW which last traded at $54.80. Therefore, I will acquire 5 shares of SJW on Monday. Below, is the purchase history and average cost calculation.

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Dividend King of the Week [PPG][8]

This week, four of the portfolio holdings ranked in the Top Ten: FMCB, PPG, SJW, and TGT.

TickerAccount Value
FMCB2,907.90
PPG2,886.96
SJW2,956.34
TGT2,995.60

The lowest amount belongs to PPG which last traded at $125.52. Therefore, I will acquire 2 shares of PPG on Monday. Below, is the purchase history and average cost calculation.

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Coronation! [ADP]

If you collect a paycheck, electronic or other, there’s a one in six chance it comes from a company created in 1949 by brothers Joe and Henry Taub. They called it Automatic Payrolls, Inc. but there was nothing automatic about it. It was a manual payroll processing business that started small. Now, 75 years later, it employs 64,000 people of its own and brings in over $19 billion in annual revenue. They could very well be working with your own company’s Chief People Person, and they won’t stop until the problems experienced by a young Milton Waddams are eradicated.

On November 6, 2024, this bastion of the workplace announced its 50th consecutive annual increase to their quarterly dividend. We have another Dividend King, and it joins the Royal Dividends Empire.

All hail Automatic Data Processing, Inc!

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Dividend King of the Week [TGT][6]

This week, five of the portfolio holdings ranked in the Top Ten: FMCB, GRC, PPG, SJW, and TGT.

TickerAccount Value
FMCB2,898.00
GRC2,792.25
PPG2,861.43
SJW2,909.17
TGT2,715.12

The lowest amount belongs to TGT which last traded at $150.84. I will acquire 2 shares of TGT on Monday morning. See the 2024-08-31 post for a slightly deeper dive into TGT’s historical performance. Below, is the purchase history and average cost calculation.

How Transparent is Your Investment Advisory?

If you’re reading this, you likely have received email offers from various investment advisories or financial publishers.  And once you bite, a torrent of emails from previously unheard-of services and publications follows.  These marketing efforts are excessively frequent, intentionally secretive, and filled with exaggerations, even when the service itself is legitimate and worthy of subscription. 

How do we separate the wheat from the chaff so we can make some dough?

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Dividend King of the Week [SJW][7]

This week, six of the portfolio holdings ranked in the Top Ten: FMCB, GRC, PPG, SJW, TGT, and VZ.

TickerAccount Value
FMCB2,898.75
GRC2,802.00
PPG2,908.35
SJW2,708.16
TGT2,720.88
VZ7,324.26

The lowest amount belongs to SJW which last traded at $56.42. I will acquire 5 shares of SJW when the market opens at 9:30am on Monday, literally right after SJW releases their earnings for 2024Q3. See the 2024-07-27 post for a slightly deeper dive into SJW’s historical performance. Below, is the purchase history and average cost calculation.

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