Pocket Change Portfolio Update

Each month I update the Pocket Change Portfolio (PCP). The table below reconciles the PCP from beginning of period to end of period for June 2009, Year-To-Date (2009) and Life-To-Date. The Portfolio Returns line provides the calculated return for the three displayed periods.

Description	June-2009	Year-To-Date	Life-To-Date
Beg. Portfolio Value	6,298.87	3,395.62	-
Online Cash Receipts	876.09	3,786.05	7,334.39
Online Expenses	-	(30.00)	(116.60)
Gross Profit	876.09	3,756.05	7,217.79
Dividends	47.16	88.32	113.48
Interest Income	0.37	5.98	12.13
Subtotal	923.62	3,850.35	7,343.40
Gain/(Loss)	(52.51)	(75.99)	(173.42)
Ending Portfolio Value	7,169.98	7,169.98	7,169.98
Portfolio Returns	-0.07%	1.94%	(1.70%)

Online Cash Receipts are the collected earnings from my online endeavors. Most of which is advertising on the my various blogs. The year-to-date $30.00 Online Expenses relates to registering 3 domains (DividendsValue.com, Dividends4Life.com and TheDiv-Net.com). I received Dividends from KO ($9.02), BP ($16.80) and ED ($15.34) in June. The Interest Income line is interest earned on cash balances in an ING account I set up for the PCP. The Gain/(Loss) line is for market changes to the PCP (realized and unrealized).

Online earnings in June continued to improve from the setback of moving my primary site to a new domain in February. I expect online earnings to slowly build for a period of time as Dividends Value establishes itself.

During the month of June, I purchased 18 shares of Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) stock. This will provide me $35.20 in annual earnings at the current dividend rate. Including the JNJ stock, my annual PCP dividend income is now $259.10 at the current dividend rates. I ended the month with $1,077.60 in cash, which will enable me to purchase my seventh PCP stock in July. It had been my goal to have sufficient earnings to purchase a stock at least once each quarter. However, given my recent experience, my new goal is to have sufficient earnings to purchase a stock eight times a year. Through June I have purchased four stocks.

My PCP holdings are always available by selecting the Holdings option. The next PCP update will be mid-August.

Comments

[consumerons...:]

Tell me how to get that damned "dashboard display" or whatever you call it to move so I can read the whole article. Get rid of it, or tell me how to get rid of it. I hate it and haven't read SA in a month because of it.

Jul 31 05:56 PM

[Thadeus Tho...:]

Can't read SA because your computer isn't configured correctly? Go call your computer "help" line. When you get the Chinese, Pakastani, Mexican, etc "tech" online see how much help you get. Oh, I forgot, you don't like "highly paid" American workers or companies that really pay what they should instead of paying dividends to free loading "investors". Dividends belong to those producing them. . . a company's employees.


On Jul 31 05:56 PM consumeronstrike wrote:

> Tell me how to get that damned "dashboard display" or whatever you
> call it to move so I can read the whole article. Get rid of it,
> or tell me how to get rid of it. I hate it and haven't read SA in
> a month because of it.

Aug 06 01:07 PM

[consumerons...:]

Isn't this guy obviously an idiot?

Sep 14 05:32 PM