 guys welcome back to the independent investor channel everybody out there wants to own single stock but nobody wants to incur loss in this video i'm going to jump you into my dividend growth portfolio comprised of 100 stocks and i don't lose any sleep over this i've had this just over two and a half years it's performed wonderfully it's made me a ton of money it's scalable to the masses this is the best quality companies that i see anywhere in the world to invest in i use the power of m1 finance to bring together a collective suite of wonderful companies out there that have been tried and true over the decades to pay and increase their dividends this is a dividend growth strategy this is comprised of only single stock it is diversified in that there are 100 companies in this portfolio but i think you'll be most interested in understanding how defensive this is in the face of adversity and volatility in these markets that have really punished a lot of investors for being overexposed in certain segments of the market i think you're going to find that this strategy is most conducive to those investors out there that want to take a set it and forget it type of mentality i get paid 400 times per year on this portfolio with 400 dividend renderings for per quarter uh per holding in this portfolio it meets a very strict criteria of dividend payers split up across the 11 sectors of the s and p 500 so with that guys let's jump in and take a look at the performance of the dividend growth portfolio so i chronicle two m1 finance portfolios through the independent investor channel this is the second of those accounts this was started late in 2019 so the portfolio just about two and a half years old and this is deploying a strategy that i believe wholeheartedly in and i think a lot of investors can really relate with this strategy this is the dividend growth strategy this aims to invest in single stock of those companies that have been proven to pay a dividend this is a chuckered blocked full of representatives of the gems of the stock market the dow jones industrials some of the large cap dividend aristocrats kings and maybe even some achievers on this list of companies that have been growing their dividend have been known to pay a dividend for years past and even decades in some circumstances this is a portfolio that performs extremely well in volatile markets this portfolio i make available to those would be patrons that email me i can send you a link to this direct portfolio the framework is provided in the description below it's got 50 holdings whereas this particular dividend growth portfolio has 100 holdings i repeat it has 100 stocks in it it's done done quite well and from a relative perspective this has increased some incredible produce some incredible market gains and it's just crept over the thousand dollar dividend mark in just uh just a couple of years so when you talk about building wealth this is a fabulous way of doing it and you know of all the people out there that are trying to beat the market of all the people out there trying to find that next best thing that next best needle in a haystack this is no brainer investing these companies here you might not have a lot of wear with all on this portfolio is built by me the hard work has been done if you want the portfolio take a look at it if you wanted to just throw away or omit all hundred stocks and pick your own hundred stocks i think you'd be hard pressed to do so without some level of overlap because i've been investing my whole life and these companies are the best of greed they really are but the structure and framework in this portfolio is is to be noted here it's performed quite well it does render almost daily dividends with 100 stocks paying four times a year on an average which means i get 400 payments per year you say ryan man that's amazing you must work really really hard at this portfolio to render those 400 payments i do nothing and that's the beauty of putting your money to work you've heard about the concept of putting your money to work to work for you this is it and this is a wonderful way and and some of those dividends are a few bucks this is not huge with just 33 and a half thousand in this account i've built this up strategically over time but as the portfolio snowballs and it grows and those dividends flow into this portfolio it really starts to become a very sizable and notable investment philosophy and approach as the portfolio grows and it really starts to mature and pay larger dividends as the quarters go on and on and it doesn't take long and you guys can probably look at this and perhaps maybe a lot of investors would look at this and say i i want it now ryan well good luck with that good luck putting the level of risk on the table to render real results in the stock market you might be able to do it one or twice once or twice but to do it consistently is close to impossible this eliminates the need to try to time the market this eliminates the need to try to get lucky in the market i can say rest assured that investors will sell themselves out for the best chance of success into the future by taking on a strategy like i'm displaying to you now with him on finance then you'll ever have trying to time the market and try to find that next moonshot stock it just doesn't happen and the quicker that would be investors can get over that and seek out a diversified strategy using dividend growth like i'm just demonstrating to you here the better off you'll be and the better you'll sleep at night quite frankly because these companies have been known to produce extremely lucrative results for share owners over the decades that they've existed these companies have extremely wide modes their products that they provide are the best in their respective businesses and i've worked very hard to construct a portfolio using the framework here in front of you that i openly share now i have added real estate into this uh so i have uh rounded this out with all 11 of the sectors in the smp 500 so think about the the the sectors as kind of the construct or the framework of the portfolio and then the individual holdings within each of these sectors will represent the holding so i kick in here just a technology to show you what i mean technology here just has eight holdings okay but these are single stocks all of these pay a dividend all of these were the companies that i wanted to put into the technology slice which is going to have an emphasis on dividends and of course be representative in technology now that's just the technology slice so when we go into the holdings itself you're going to find here with all of the discussion about the volatility in the stock markets i haven't looked at this before i film the video so you're going to see what it is i'm working with here the largest position i have here is eight hundred and sixty nine dollars and that's with uh the dow component visa i've got a three dow components here and my top three holdings with mcdonald's am jen and visa so these are best of breed then you kind of go down the list here and you can see how if you were to try to pick and choose these you may get lucky and you may pick uh you know one of these ones here like broadcom that's up 14 percent what what what do you do now you're still not diversified and you're not diversified of the course of holding this to render this 14 percent i would rather just take a small amount render that 13 percent and and and have enough capital to really spread my money out and earn the opportunity to earn um or really holistic growth over the portfolio by owning more holdings i don't care if i own one holding in a portfolio that performs at a 10 or 20 clip or if i own 100 holdings that earn a 10 or 20 clip the mathematics are such that the renderings are the same it's just in the latter portfolio i get to enjoy diversification and we can understand that no two stocks are going to perform the same i mean i've got some stocks here wonderful stocks like sisco i own 14 shares of it in this portfolio that's off significantly 15 and a half percent that happens but if you chose this in a single stock portfolio well then those renderings would be down in and of itself 15 percent whereas in this portfolio i've got buffers in the portfolio from utilities of 15 percent these two holdings kind of offset each other and it's the very definition of the diversified and defensive posture in this that i look to to share with you guys look at this up over 100 percent here you might get lucky here you might invest your entire portfolio into valero we might have a shift in sentiment with oil we may have policy changes come down the pike which drives prices back down again we may have supply and and and demand types of initiatives that really flow a lot of supply on to the market which has been indicative just three short years ago but for the for the short term i'll take gains like this conico philips here one of my best performers up 152 percent i i would have never been able to forecast that these companies would have performed or outperformed the market at such an amazing clip without just putting a strategic shot in it in energy identifying that these two companies both are best in their respective businesses and they've done quite well they've benefited from the sector shift to energy here as gas prices have increased at the pump so you know where we're fine home depot here down off 4 percent i don't mind owning it in this portfolio intel down 26 percent another name that i just do not mind owning as new fundings flow into this account i'll continue to fund these lower held these ones that are down the most the funds will come in there and will benefit from it i would have never called this in cbs never up 22 and a half percent here over the course of owning this portfolio disney look at that down 4 percent just incredibly terrible performance in disney disney will have better days we will look at this at some point in the future and the company will be back in the positive that i can that i can promise you because i'm not panicking out of this if i had put my entire portfolio into disney at the time that disney plus came out and everybody was so bullish on it i would be down 40 percent of my dollars and for new investors you can really sit back and say wow this this is interesting the way that ryan buffers the portfolio he's able to gain some appreciation in some of those areas of the market and he doesn't allow a lot of leaks in the portfolio or areas where profits can avoid benefiting me now this is during volatile markets guys the the markets have really sold off and you'll find that a lot of these good quality companies here it's just going to take time to come back and really complement this bottom line i think in conducive markets i'm going to be doing a review on these portfolios and sharing a different story here we'll look at linds they're up 14 percent great toronto dominion the canadian banks here i've got a good sparkling the canadian banks in here pepsi of course just old iron side doing great here there's murderers row here starbucks everybody was bullish on starbucks and i am too but even good companies go through phases of consolidation and starbucks is going through that right right now and the further it goes down the more of a buy it is and the more i can rely on the technology with m1 finance to continue to accumulate shares for me on these companies so i'm going to try to cruise through here just give you an indication summer red summer green and that is part of investing i'm one of those investors that come on and i will suggest to expect this type of performance if you're going to put your dollars to risk in the stock market sometimes it goes up sometimes it goes down and over the long term we're hoping for you know a rate of return that is going to allow us to grow wealth over the portfolio as a whole this is how you invest this is great one of my new holdings here with cold storage a real estate reet what the largest actually in the world for cold storage critical piece of our trade and business that is this set very necessary in our shipping and logistics chain exxon mobile here up nicely so as we cruise toward the bottom here you can kind of see how you know the offset of some of the performing sectors has done quite well and then to augment some of those areas of the portfolio look at that i got murderers row here at the bottom in financials really that have really rolled off here as of late and volatile markets but that gives you a nice indication of how the portfolio has performed even in volatile markets here off 20 percent in the markets we're holding in there anybody out there can have the tolerance to understand the how the portfolio even performs in good markets and what to expect in poor markets again the portfolio is provided for you guys in the description below the independent investor channel is affiliated with M1 finance that means i can receive a small compensation for providing information and tutorials like this where i take you in and i show you this is my specific account this is very very real and i can provide you an introduction to M1 finance and the aesthetics that exist there in and what you can expect for yourself as we look to duplicate and scale efforts on how to enter into the stock market using the dividend growth strategy diversification and passive investing to your benefit to gain wealth for you so with that guys we'll conclude the video all right guys so we've come out of the dividend growth portfolio hope you've enjoyed this this is a cool way of investing i don't see really a lot of people investing this way which is ironic because this way of investing is a way of investing that everyone can participate in everyone doesn't matter what your experience level is hell i've already done the work for you the portfolio is completed if you don't like any of my holdings you can get rid of all of them use the framework put whatever hundred stocks you want in there or 50 or 25 or whatever suits your investing need but i think the importance of understanding that there is no cost to this way of investing this portfolio cost zero in maintenance fees it requires zero management over the portfolio i've owned this for two and a half years i've done very very little to it if anything except for allow my money to work for itself and you hear all the time about the importance of setting your money up to work for you i've just provided you a tutorial on doing just that guys leave your comments at the bottom of the video subscribe to the mess if you enjoy basic investing 101 types of philosophies like i roll out on the channel my message is applicable to the masses i'm not looking to cater to one specific group or the other if you want to make money in the stock market come to the independent investor channel everything else is uncivilized guys thank you so much for tuning into this m1 dividend growth portfolio tutorial and good luck in your investment future