March Madness Dividends/Q1 Update: Rose's Income Garden Portfolio Yield 4.65%

Rose's Income Garden "RIG"

RIG is a defensive income-quality value-built portfolio with 80 stocks from 11 sectors. RIG contains investment-grade common stock along with high yield ("HY") business development companies ("BDCs") and real estate investments. The income goal is to keep 50% of it from defensive sectors/ stocks and hold a dividend income yield of 4% or more, which usually is easily over 4.5%.

The yield sits at 4.65% with 13.7% cash which means March finished with a nice even steady state portfolio for both value and income. The goal is for safe defensive income, with value investing being important along with diversity to hold it steady and have less beta than the overall market movements.

Its diversity by sector is shown in the chart below:

The chart does point to the financials and real estate providing high income, but healthcare, consumer staples and utilities follow as defensive stocks, as does cash provide defense for RIG.

March RIG Dividend Income

Dividend payments came from 41 out of the 80 companies in RIG or ~51% with 4 being monthly payers. The 7 raises and the special payment were appreciated and they are listed in bold print. The amounts and further information are noted in the comment section. The list is done in order of payment received date/Date Rec'd in the chart.

The following are the other abbreviations used:

• $Div /share = US $ Dividend paid in March

• $Yearly Dividend = US $ yearly forward dividend estimate

• Div % Yield = Estimated dividend yield using current listed price and dividend

• Curr $Price = US $Price at the close of the market April 11th, 2023.

More information on each company that raised follows this section.

The Cut

The cut from Star Bulk Carriers was expected and mostly only a bit annoying as it must be noted it still has a hefty 11.6% yield.

FASTgraph for SBLK is show below with the black line being price, blue line is normal P/E and white line is the dividend that was cut in 2022 and should rise again if the estimates or dotted lines hold true. Yearly prices are shown at the top of the graph for 3 years + part of 2023. Earnings are at the bottom of the graph along with dividends paid and future suggested are listed with an E after the number. It can be seen to have lower earnings but mostly it still is performing with estimates/ dotted lines showing continued future nice dividend payments that still are covered by the earnings.

Raises-7

1- Visa = 20%

The raise to 45c from 37.5c = 20% was needed as the yield is 0.8% at its current price is an outlier for a dividend income portfolio. A little growth income is always welcome for older positions. Visa is considered a financial services data tech company and has a 5 year DGR of 15%.

2- WEC Energy Group / Wisconsin Energy = 7.2%

The raise of 5.25c continues a nice 5 year dividend growth rate of 6.95% for this utility and its steady reliable income.

3- Amgen = 9.8%

The 19c raise is actually below norm, but wonderful as it continues a 5 year DGR of 11% for a big pharma company.

4- Chevron = 6.3%

The raise of 9c is nicely above the 5 year DGR of 5.65% from this energy company.

5- Molson Coors = 7.9%

The 3c raise is making up for a big cut in 2020 from this consumer staple company, but it still has a 5 year DGR of 18.3%.

6- Home Depot = 10%

The raise of 19c was very welcome, yet is still below the 5 year DGR of 16.64%; but then the price is lower and the yield is sitting at 2.86% from a company in consumer discretionary sector.

7- Shell Plc = 15%

This raise was "magic" and just what I was looking for from this energy company and it even came earlier than expected. It now has 2 positive dividend growth years on top of -4.27% 5 year dividend growth rate record.

March Transactions -3

2 Buys

1- BXMT

Blackstone Mortgage Trust

Mortgage REIT with a big high now 14+% yield. A position was started and a trading alert given in The Macro Trading Factory service to do just that. The price seems to still remain quite rocky, but I am pleased with the yield and see it as being extremely undervalued and actually so do many other analysts.

Below is what 6 Yahoo Finance analysts suggest for its price target:

Morningstar Analyst has a Fair Value for it at $28.77 and Buy cheaply price of $16.71. I agree and did start a nice position in RIG.

2- DBRG-H

Digital Bridge preferred shares H

Digital Bridge is an infrastructure investment real estate sector financial company. These preferred shares have actually already hit the call date. I paid quite a bit lower than the current price today, which has risen nicely. I will be pleased actually if it does get called at its $25 call price. This was also an idea and trading alert I made at Macro Trading Factory, but I must give credit to The Fortune Teller and his service The Wheel of Fortune for suggesting it first there.

Sold ZIM

ZIM Integrated Shipping Services

This is a marine shipping company that has announced it will pay its last dividend this year. The price rose up by the announced dividend amount and it became time to sell it and then not worry about any foreign dividend taxes that would be removed. The decision to move out was not easy, but as it was truly originally recognized as speculative in nature the good news was it was held to a smallish portfolio size in value. It was truly fun for a while with its huge dividend payments until now. I did believe the positive earnings would last longer, but it was not to be. It should do quite well in the future, but most likely not for some time, and I don't want to watch it. This purchase and sale became a huge lesson in how volatile shipping companies can be for pricing and dividends. It was an interesting ride, but turned out less than positive for RIG as it did take a hit in value when sold. Lesson learned, glad to be a smallish one.

Add on buys

There were 3 announced add on buys as trading alerts my myself in MTF service:

ARDC, RITM-D and RC.

These are all high yield financials or preferred shares.

Summary/Conclusion

Income is the primary focus goal of RIG, but retaining value is very important. It does so with having quality low debt/high credit rated companies all the while maintaining and growing safe income and the RIG portfolio continues to own 80 stocks.

The Rose portfolio/ RIG continues to outperform SPY by double digits from its Nov 2021 inception being up 19.9%. 2023 Q1 has been more of a struggle YTD with value ending almost even, but was down 0.54%, but acceptable for now! This is a marathon and not a race and I have confidence RIG will continue to perform well. The dividend income yield is 4.65% with nice cash on hand of 13.7%. The search continues for more dividend growers with a "WTB" /want to buy list of Non-RIG stocks available for subscribers to follow. Buy under prices and a deep value buy price is provided for those and all 80 current RIG stocks.

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