Thursday, December 3, 2020

(Preferred) Stock(/Bond ETF)s Of The Month: AGG, HYLB, PFFD, QQQJ, QQQM, USHY

I skipped November's post because...excuses. Here's what happened: 
  • Bought more AGG, HYLB, PFFD, USHY
  • Swapped my previous holdings of QQQ into mostly QQQM (just like QQQ, but with a lower expense ratio) and some QQQJ (an entirely new ETF consisting of "minor-league prospects" of the Nasdaq - it's what one might wish the Russell 2000 to be, instead of the perpetual underperformer that it is).
Detail-oriented readers will note that these same six ETFs are in the title of this post, as they were bought in December as well.

Also, a trigger sale!  Salesforce (CRM) just reported a so-so quarter and a high-priced acquisition of Slack, which sent its stock below my previously-established threshold.  First bought in October 2013 and purchased on three additional occasions, it posted a 178% gain (15% annualized).


Boilerplate time...

As a stretch goal: for dividend income purposes, I'd like this portfolio to eventually be as much as a 50/50 split between stocks and bonds. As seen below, it is currently 56/44.

I am in no rush to flip into bonds. I would rather let my winners run forever. However, if in any given month I see no stocks that present themselves as especially good buying opportunities, I have no reservations in simply adding to my bond and/or preferred stock ETFs. It is truly a month-to-month situation (as it has always been!).

For the foreseeable future, I want to track my Big Five Two every month, whether I buy them or not.

Amazon (AMZN)
  • $1.60T market cap
  • no dividend
  • $347.0B revenue
  • 37% revenue growth
  • $68.4B cash
  • $96.8B debt
  • $55.3B operating cash flow
  • $33.7B free cash flow

Microsoft (MSFT)
  • $1.63T market cap
  • 1.0% dividend yield
  • $147.1B revenue
  • 12% revenue growth
  • $138.0B cash
  • $83.2B debt
  • $66.2B operating cash flow
  • $32.2B free cash flow


Here's my current portfolio (buy and hold). As always, I believe in all of these stocks/ETFs - until I sell them.

Amazon (AMZN) 13.22%
iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (USHY) 12.33%
Xtrackers USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYLB) 12.30%
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF (AGG) 11.07%
Microsoft (MSFT) 10.02%
Global X U.S. Preferred ETF (PFFD) 8.00%
Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF (QQQM) 4.59%
Alphabet (GOOGL) 4.18%
Facebook (FB) 2.84%
Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) 2.41%
Adobe (ADBE) 2.05%
Invesco NASDAQ Next Gen 100 ETF (QQQJ) 1.90%
Costco Wholesale (COST) 1.35%
UnitedHealth Group (UNH) 1.32%
Visa (V) 1.27%
Autodesk (ADSK) 0.73%