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It's StriveS here, and in this video, I wanted to show you all my M1 Finance portfolio and give you all an update on what's been going on in this portfolio since the previous update, which was about two, three weeks ago at this point. Have I been buying stocks, selling stocks, dividends? How much money have I made on each position? We're going to go through everything in this video. So if you enjoy the video, feel free to go down below, hit that like button, consider subscribing if you do want to see further content from me. And if you want to be further connected with the StriveSmart community, there are two links down below. One of them being the StriveSmart Discord group chat, and the other one being the StriveSmart Facebook group. Make sure to get in there, again, if you want to be further connected with our community. So right off the bat here, guys, you can see the portfolio is worth $764.32. Well, actually, that's the money that I have invested. As you guys can see, I have a very tiny amount of cash right here of about $7.79. So overall, the portfolio right now is roughly worth around $770. And since the inception of the portfolio, which was on July 2nd, 2019 here, this was about three, three, four months ago at this point, we've gained $32.70, which is a return of 11.41%. And this is actually pretty crazy, guys, because the last update video that I made, which again was about two, three weeks ago, the gain on the portfolio was only 3%. So in the past two weeks, two, three weeks, this portfolio has gained nearly 8%, which goes to show that this market has been flying over the past couple of weeks, as most of you guys already know at this point, because the S&P has been hitting all time high after all time high. And honestly, some of the individual plays, the individual stocks that I hold in this portfolio have been crushing it as well in terms of earnings and just price appreciation in general, right? So let's break it down a bit further here. Their return in the past week, I don't know if you guys care about this, but $5, nearly 1%. And again, the past month, which is where a lot of the return has come, has been 6.15%, a gain of about $33.88. And oh my God, before I forget, let me show you all how much has been from dividends, because this portfolio is comprised of a lot of dividend paying stocks, but I've also added a lot of growth stocks to the portfolio, three actually, since this previous update video that I made, which was my goal with this portfolio when I first started it, right? I was looking to have a lot of dividend stocks and then slowly add some growth stocks as their valuations got to an area where I'd feel comfortable at least scaling in and holding for the long term obviously, right? So $29 market gains, dividends about $3.37. And now let's just get to the meat and potatoes of what I'm holding right here. What are my holdings? The first one being Johnson & Johnson with a target of about 15% of my portfolio and an actual of around 15.7% of my portfolio. So this one's a bit overweight, not drastically overweight, 0.7% is nothing crazy, but a bit overweight here, right? And if we click Johnson & Johnson to see some specifics about my position, average share price, $130 here, market price right now is at about $131.20. So I'm down a little bit in terms of that, but this is mostly a dividend play, guys. Honestly, I'm looking to hold this one very, very long term and have it be a stable portion of my portfolio because Johnson & Johnson is a dividend king. It pays dividends through recessions. This is really a comfortable holding for me here as we're headed towards the end of this economic cycle, right? So I plan on adding more to this. If we dip our toes back into the 120s as that PE gets a bit lower, maybe down to about like a 19-20 PE, I might add some more money there. But as of now, I'm simply just holding this one and I view it as a hold. Maybe I'll buy in some more and of course I'll let you guys know when I do that. The second holding here is Altria and this one we've been doing quite well on. The gain, all term, all time here is about 7%, $4 nearly, most of that coming from market gains and about $1 coming from dividends. And I'm sure a lot of you guys know Altria has been getting crushed as jewel and a lot of these e-cigarettes have been, you know, honestly being crushed out there in terms of the media with a lot of negative news surrounding these companies and these products, right? And since Altria owns really the biggest brand name in my personal opinion in terms of e-cigarettes, obviously this has been dragging down the stock due to the negativity surrounding that product and the whole entire space, right? So I've been buying into Altria over the past couple of months right now. My average is about $43.84, have about 2.28 shares and by the way, yes, you can have partial shares here on M1 Finance which is why I love the platform. And this is really a dividend play as well, 7.5% dividend here. I plan on reinvesting those dividends and holding this one long term, especially since the PE ratio is super low right now, at about a 12. So if we go back to the portfolio, the next holding here, guys, is Facebook which is one of those new tech stocks that I've added to my portfolio. And I honestly own Facebook and my other private accounts that I have in the stock market and really I wanted to add it to this portfolio as well. I've been wanting to add it to this portfolio and overall up about 4% on this position got in at about $186.53. This is not a dividend play, but it's a growth play, digital advertising, all of that good stuff. I think Facebook, guys, the phenomenal balance sheet is going to be here and growing for the next 5, 10 plus years at least. That's my personal opinion here. So Facebook, own that, third largest holding in this portfolio, ABV guys, we've been crushing it on ABV. This is probably the, actually it's not the best. It's the second best stock performing stock in terms of percentage here. You guys can see up 14.3% since I bought it, which is insane. Up $8 here, $7 being market gains, nearly 60 cents being dividends. And we can see I bought in $73.95 and right now the stock is priced at $81.75. And again, this stock has just been going like crazy to the upside. It's just been crushing it, guys. And this is another one of those dividend plays. Dividend yield at about 5.7 right now. When I bought in, I believe the dividend was north of 6%. So I'm viewing this as a dividend reinvestment play, a long-term hold to eventually live off of that cash flow. That is the goal there with ABV. Another one, which is 3M, I'm holding this one. Honestly, guys, I want to make this a smaller portion of my portfolio. As you guys saw, it's about a 5% target weight of the portfolio, but now it's a bit overweight. So I'm honestly not going to be buying more 3M here. I'm probably just going to hold it, ride it out, reinvest those dividends. But in terms of buying more with fresh cash, I'm just going to hold off on that as of right now because 3M, a lot of these industrial-based companies, they get affected heavily when the trade war gets sour. And at this point, there's optimism surrounding the trade war, which is why 3M has been increasing in price recently. But if it gets rocky again, guys, I do expect 3M to get crushed. So I'm waiting to see if that happens. And if it does, maybe I'll add more money there. But as of now, I'm just simply holding it and really just waiting for any big changes in the foreseeable future. Huge price at about $166 with a nice dividend, growing dividend here at about 3.4%. So I'm liking that one. The next holding, which is another new holding, is PayPal Holdings here, guys. Up 5.3% on this one, up about $3. Average share price at about $100.23. And you guys can see the market value right now is nearly $105. And this is one of those growth plays similar to Facebook, right? Ended up buying into this one. I really see potential in this one moving forward, especially as they got a license agreement. They bought some of a Chinese payment service, and they're actually doing business in China. They're getting ready to do business in China, which is another huge market that if PayPal dominates there, you know, this is going to bring a lot of more revenue, a lot more revenue and profit to the business. So PayPal. I love this one long term. The next one you guys see here is AT&T, killing it on AT&T, up 20% on this one, up $7, $6 market gains, nearly $1 in earned dividends. This is obviously a dividend play, about 5.2% being paid out in dividends with an average share price here of about $35.02. So AT&T, since we're up so much on this one at this point, right, let's see what the weighting is. We're really on target at about 8% of the portfolio. I'm viewing this one as a hold. If it gets overweight, I might trim off some profits here, then add it to an underweight position, maybe like Facebook, add some into Facebook trimming profits from AT&T. That's a possibility here that I'm looking at. The next position here is Amazon. I bought this one, I believe it was the day after they reported earnings. The stock dumped very, very heavily. You can see I'm in an average share price right now at about $1,700, up $14, or that's actually the stock's price. It was up $14 on Friday, but right now it's valued at $1,791.44. Total gain of about $2 here, a return of about 4%. Do I need to explain Amazon guys, honestly, you all know Amazon at this point. This is one of the best companies out there and I just want to have my hands in it. Some may argue this is not the best time to get into Amazon. I'm okay with buying a little bit here because I know if it drops even further in the future, which I'm sure it might, I'm going to add more. And honestly, I'm viewing this as just dollar cost averaging very, very slowly and looking to hold a growth beast over the next couple of years, five, 10 years at least. And that's the goal and I'm sure I'll come out on top here with how awesome of a company Amazon is. So wrapping up the video here guys with the last three, SPHD, this is a monthly dividend ETF I own up about 2.75% right now, up about $1.37, 18 of those being earned dividends, 18 cents there. And again, this is a monthly play. I actually think I got their dividend a couple of days ago, expense ratio about 0.3%. It's actually a higher dividend yield of about 4.1%. So yeah, I'm looking to reinvest these dividends and really just focus on doing that and living off of the cash flow when I do need that cash flow in this portfolio in decades to come here. So SPHD, the next one's Alibaba at about 5% of the portfolio, up about 3% on this one right now, average price at about $173. The market values it at $176. So I'm up a little bit on Alibaba, nothing crazy. This is really just a Chinese play. I believe Alibaba is the best company out of China to own, so I figured why not throw 5% into it. I believe in the prospects, I own it in my private accounts as well. So I want some exposure there to Alibaba. And the last one here about 5% of my portfolio is in the Vanguard FTSE developed markets ETF, up about 4.3% on this one, up about $1 on this position. And this is an ETF that accounts for developed markets outside of the United States. So I'm getting exposure to a lot of companies, a lot of developed markets that really don't include the United States because I have a lot of U.S. companies already, so I kind of want some money, some revenues, some profits from other areas of the world, right? And this dividend or this ETF pays a dividend of about 1.9%. My share price right now at about $41.79 and as you guys can see, again, I'm up on the position. So yeah, I'm just looking to add more to this one slowly and just hold it long term again to get that exposure from these developed markets. So overall, guys, that's what the portfolio is looking like. If we go to the Activities tab, you can see, you know, I've been adding some money into it, $65 this day I bought, $50 on this day I bought. You can see some of the dividends here from AT&T and SPHD. And like I've mentioned in previous videos, I'm looking to get this portfolio up to a couple thousand bucks here over the next couple of months. I'm not growing it as quick as I'm growing my private accounts, but I am focusing on growing it so you guys can get value and see what I do in terms of building a portfolio from scratch. And one last thing before we do end off the video here, guys. I don't think I'm going to add any new stocks or ETFs to this portfolio in the foreseeable future because I don't want to get too diversified, right? I'm already holding 8, 9, 10 holdings in this portfolio and there's not an insane amount of money in it, $764 bucks, right? That's not an insane amount of money. So I'm looking at this point to really build onto the positions that I already have before potentially adding any new positions in terms of stocks and ETFs in the future, right? Sure, if we get a ridiculous dip in the markets, I might add some more stocks to the portfolio. But again, as of now, now that I have all the core positions, the foundation laid down, I'm looking to build on top of that foundation and kind of just add more money into the already existing stocks and ETFs in the portfolio. So I'm going to wrap the video up here, guys. If you enjoyed it, feel free to go down below, hit that like button, consider subscribing if you do want to see further content from me and don't forget to join the StriveSmart Discord Group Chat and the StriveSmart Facebook Group. And if you guys buy anything from the StriveSmartStore.com, which again is linked down below and is live right now, I really do appreciate you all. It directly supports me and it directly supports the channel and I just want to let you know, thank you, thank you, thank you. You are awesome for all the support and just thanks guys from the bottom of my heart. You are the best. So I'll catch you all in the next video. Thanks again for watching. As always, peace out.