 As welcome back to the independent investor channel, it's great to be with you guys I roll out these portfolio updates on a periodic basis through the channel to Demonstrate how money acts when it is exposed to risk and I think this can help introduce a lot of new investors to What is to expect and I share this openly? This is my money. So you put no risk on the table When I when things are bad you could sit back and enjoy when things are bad When things are good you can kind of sit back and maybe understand what could be potentially Applicable to you and what you could expect from the stock market. There's never been this level of buffer and transparency With what's to expect in the stock market, you know Many years ago. You would have had to just you know, invest with blind faith and now really you can educate yourself up Before you even invest one dollar into the stock market And I think that's where the value proposition of videos like this are is you can also see the aesthetics of The broker that I chronicle in this video, which is M1 finance If you're interested in the portfolio that I'm going to declare to you it is located in the description below And so you can kick over there and you can check it out for yourself So it's a great way for beginning investors to get that Introductory start into the market and feel like they've got somebody on their side So with that guys we're going to jump in and we're going to check out my 100 stock M1 finance portfolio here and the progress that's been made over the last couple of years guys Please enjoy and a lot of people pursue wealth building and a lot for a lot of different reasons I pursue it for one reason and one reason only and that's to make money. Okay, I think it's exciting I think it is possible. I think a lot of people pursue Excitement in the stock market only to get burned and then it's not fun anymore. Okay? This portfolio is a dividend growth portfolio and this is exciting. This is fun. This is comprised of Just over 90 stock holdings. Okay, so this is not ETF. This is not index. This is not mutual fund These are single stocks in this comprised of around I think 93 or so we can check that when we get to the the investment piece to this But I just want to stress to everybody out there While everybody else is trying to identify that basket of 10 or 20 stocks that are going to work for them This basket of 93 of the best companies that I feel exist on the earth Can be utilized by anyone out there These companies are not secrets They are the best companies out there and they have been the ones that have been tried and true To provide and payback shareholders over over the long term and this portfolio only Represents that fact now there is no No Promise of return into the future However, when we look at the past performance of these equities There is no denying the power of investing in this way and over the short term it has grown and it is digressed with the market sell-off So we're in a little bit of a consolidation phase here as indicated by this small little leap Dive off the high dive here But it's come back a little bit over the last month or so as the market has been trying to find its footing But total inflows into the portfolio just shy of just north of 24,000 We've got just over 31,381 dollars in this dividend growth portfolio. This is a fabulous way of investing So basically what happens in this is about every morning. I wake up and I have new dividends, okay? Now let's take a look here. We've just got over 1,100 in dividends now. Mind you. I have not had this portfolio But just around what is that two or two and a half years or so? So very very impressive with 8,300 of total gains 7,200 of those have come by capital appreciation in the market That's accounting for this last sell-off in the market as well And then earned dividends to boot to throw on to this So we'll take a look at where those dividends are coming from Financial staples and technologies lead the way. I'm kind of surprised at that. I hadn't checked it before I shot But technology here is leading the way because I built this with a little bit more of an emphasis on dividends So I would have left out companies like Apple and Microsoft and I would have opted for companies like Cisco and IBM and the like here in this. So that's why This technology but these dividends are are impressive and these these add up just a few bucks a pop but when you're getting paid these dividends on 95 holdings and you're getting paid on Most of these quarterly It really adds up to around 400 dividend payments per year now if you I want you to think about that for a second If you sit back and you say gosh Ryan just talked about Establishing a portfolio that pays me when I'm doing other things. I do not jockey with this portfolio I did just take a big liquidation in energy And I added in one particular name in energy But for the most part this portfolio does not incur a lot of churn In other words, I invest in this and I forget it. It's very very simple and The renderings are They are undeniable. This is a great way of investing now We are subject to single-stock equity in this but I want to talk a little bit about the breakdown in this portfolio here Health care leads the way health care has been the outperformer. Nobody's talked about it This ensures that I have access to not only health care if it decides to go bananas, which it has As well as energy which has gone bananas as well And some of the other sectors that are kind of rolled off here were down big in materials materials is down Around 30 I expect that to turn around and the cool thing about it is m1 finance will continue to fund these low sectors Until they turn around and basically ensure that I'm catching the bottom in new fundings that flow into this My target allocation here is indicative by the top and bottom line So the actual dollars held represent 14.6 in health care And my target allocation is 12 percent, which basically impacts new fundings That would flow into this would not go to this health care sector as its overweight Rather go into this underweight sector like telecom real estate and materials respectively So this is the coolest part where I go over the actual holdings in the portfolio You're going to see some red here in some of the holdings. There's 97 positions in the portfolio As at the time of filming this video But I always take a scroll through quickly so people can get kind of a 97 stock pick video Under 10 minutes and it's actually kind of special because you get to see how the stock has performed I'm not just recommending stocks that I feel or have an instinct about me that are going to go up or down These are the stocks that I really feel like are are wonderful long-term holds And these are the ones that I want to start the dividend appreciation on in other words when these pay Even as little as they do pay It starts the snowball effect in building these these companies see I can hold until here Just down and you know 13.69 shares of the company. I'm down to $200 bill There's no problem. I'll continue to own this over the long term and it will in time turn around Thermo Fisher Scientific CVS We go through here and you're going to see a little bit more red. I think in these holdings Then you would normally see in in a bull market or an upmarket. I did these before and I've had less than 10 out of these so the market is fluctuating and it's it's Really sifting out right now and it's it's settling. It's taking into account the effects of high inflation It's no problem. I'm not going to sell my equities You know to to to gain more cash as cash is losing value right now That's absurd these equities right here pay me to own them So it makes total sense. Look at embridge right there up 12 That's a company that I just added into Into energy so that's really nice Some of these great companies like medtronic Starbucks down 20% and don't worry a bit about that APD products one of the best materials holdings you can have out there So a sparkling of some green and some red but for the most part The longer you hold these equities the more they'll end up paying you back and we can get these Up above They're their nominal purchase price As we look to recover and in the meantime, we're going to continue to fund these equities Over time. It's a royal bank of canada. The banks have rolled off a little bit in canada They were up for a while helping to drive the portfolio forward. There's north ripgrum and they're up 50% As we are in a time of geopolitical conflict now On the worldwide stage, but look at that streak of green right there boom boom boom streak of green This is wealth building 101 guys. If you kind of understand a little bit of method to my madness, there's sonofi There's uh, that's a good one. I've just added to the portfolio I've added the real estate reed section Which has really rolled off. It has not done well since I've added that's totally fine I wanted to own the sector and I did I added it into there. There's a nice streak of red right there On the screen for you all good companies. Just need to find its footing in this What has been really really rough stock market? There's there's no doubt about that, but We will continue to own for the long term and uh Look to continue to periodically update you on this portfolio As it as it grows and as it materializes And uh onto 50 grand guys will kick you back and we'll conclude the video All right guys, so we've come out of the dividend stock portfolio There's a lot of people out there seeking dividends in a lot of different ways The secret is to understand that there's no real right or wrong answer It's just how you seek out Your wealth building strategy. This is a part of my total comprehensive portfolio. It is not Any way in its entirety my specific strategy, but one of many And I teach upon this I think a lot of people need to be a lot more open-minded and ask themselves what they want out of investing This strategy can be a great way to avoid what I see as a mistake all the time in markets Where people enter into the stock market and they try to pick their best five stocks I think that can be a real fallacy In this Account, I've got a hundred And so, you know a good handful of them can not perform over time And you know the idea is that well, you know a few under performers are not doing well That you've got the majority of the portfolio always churning and then all of the portfolio is paying and dividend Rendering throughout the year. So you're making money while you're out doing whatever it is that you need to do with your time To actually make money and money's working for you And that is the key to any wealth building strategy Is to make sure that you position your dollars to work for you over time guys If you appreciate the message, I'd invite you to subscribe to the channel hit the notification bell Leave your comments at the bottom of the video Please and share the information with anybody out there that you know friends family Anybody interested in embarking upon a wealth journey Well-building journey for themselves bring them on to the channel We'd be glad to have them to share the empowering message of taking control of your own money For a better future guys. Thank you so much. We're tuning into the video and good luck in your investment future