Due to last week’s $1,000+ investment into new portfolio holding NNN, this will be the first of three weeks in which I am abstaining from the usual $250+ investment into the portfolio; this maintains the $250+ per week average. Below I go through the motions as if an investment were being made this week.
This week, four of the portfolio holdings ranked in the Top Ten: MMM, MO, QCOM, and TGT.
| Ticker | Account Value |
| MMM | 2,275.85 |
| MO | 2,532.86 |
| QCOM | 2,537.36 |
| TGT | 1,217.90 |
The lowest amount belongs to TGT. However, an investment into any sector other than Materials would only continue the imbalance in the portfolio, created largely by the outperformance of TDS. However, there are no companies from the Materials sector in the Top Ten. If the requirement to rank only those stocks with an expectation of 10% annualized total returns were relaxed to 9.9%, the highest ranked Materials stock would be an existing holding, PPG, coming in at #26. Thus, I would have placed the $250 into PPG. No matter, we’ll just have to see how things shake out in three weeks.