My Weekly Stock list (9/13)

This week offshore drilling companies are struggling even more after sanctions for my Motherland Russia.  My hope is that oil industry will clean out all this mess very soon because Gazprom, Rosneft, Lukoil and all other Russian companies are huge customers not just for offshore drilling companies but for many oil and gas companies all around the world. I don't like wars and politics but as an investor, I have to watch it closely, even it doesn't make any sense to me. When I grew up in Russia, it was a big country with many republics, then republics became independent countries. It looks to me as it would be the same as if each of USA states would become an independent country and then there would be a war between two states? It is very sad. But I am a girl and I don't understand wars at all.

But back to stock market.

This week I sold my remaining shares of WIN and bought shares of SDRL, just a little bit.

Below is my list for upcoming week. This week I added AFL (Aflac), thanks to Divhut for pointing that Aflac is trading close to their lowest. 

Also I put back ARCP and two other REIT companies SNH and SIR, which acquired part of ARCP properties last week. Here is an article about these transactions, if you didn't hear about this. 

Stock	Name, description	price as 9/13	Yield	52 wks low	52 wks high	1 yr target price	my opinion of holding
VZ	Verizon Communications	$48.40	4.20%	$45.45	$53.66	$54.50	long term
MAT	Mattel (toys - barbie, fisher price, baby gear, etc)	$34.34	4.30%	$34.25	$47.94	$37.75	long term
MCD	Macdonalds	$93.34	3.40%	$90.53	$103.78	$98.93	long term
AFL	Aflac	$59.79	2.50%	$58.50	$67.62	$68.63	long term
GSK	GlaxoSmithCline	$47.06	5.30%	$46.01	$56.03	$55.67	long term
PCL	Plum Creek Timber	$39.63	4.30%	$39.30	$50.08	$44.22	potential long term
ARCP	American Realties Capital Properties	$12.56	7.50%	$11.76	$14.96	$15.38	maybe long term, watch closely
ESV	Ensco	$46.25	5.90%	$46.21	$62.25	$50.88	maybe long term, watch closely
NE	Noble Corp	$25.95	5.60%	$25.06	$35.54	$30.94	maybe long term, watch closely
RIG	Transocean ltd	$35.86	7.60%	$35.79	$55.74	$37.63	maybe long term, watch closely
EC	Ecopetrol SA	$33.68	6.80%	$32.88	$49.45	$36.96	watch very close, decide later to sell or keep
SDRL	SeaDrill limited	$30.87	11.10%	$30.80	$48.09	$39.92	watch very close, decide later to sell or keep
SIR	Selected Income REIT	$25.63	6.80%	$24.61	$31.47	$25.63	not sure if I want to buy it, but want to watch
SNH	Senior Housing Properties Trust	$21.42	6.90%	$20.70	$25.35	$22.30	not sure if I want to buy it, but want to watch

* If I move stock to this list, it means there was a price drop or current price is somewhere in the middle.

I do not buy stocks at their highest prices. I might miss some good stocks but I prefer to sit and wait.

If I have a stock on my list, it means I like something about this stock. If I buy one of these stocks, it does not mean I plan to keep them forever. I might sell them if their price would go up a lot and I feel it's time to sell.

I love Sales on my regular shopping sprays and I use this strategy for my stock shopping... :)

Check A Frugal Family Journey Collection of Stock Analysis
 h ere. 

My complete Watch List of Dividends Stocks here. I update this watch list at least once a month.

My stock picking strategy here. 

Will this way speed up your earnings? I wrote about my idea of speeding up my earnings by trading more often and I would like to hear your opinion. Please read here. 

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My Weekly Stock List (8/24)

I spent my last week in Samara, Russia. You can see Volga river on my picture. This is an old Russian town. It was my first time there and it was an interesting experience. But I am so glad to be back home! Everything feels perfect when I am at home! 


While I was in Russia, there was 9 hours difference, so the stock market was open by the time I was back to my hotel room. 

This week I sold one of my non dividend stocks - BJRI. I bought more shares of MCD and GSK and also added EC to my portfolio. 

Here is my list for upcoming week. It did not change much since last week.

Stock	Name, description	price as 8/23	Dividend Yield
GSK	GlaxoSmithCline	$47.68	4.70%
MAT	Mattel (toys - barbie, fisher price, baby gear, etc)	$34.99	4.30%
MCD	McDonalds	$94.45	3.40%
ESV	Ensco	$50.01	5.90%
EC	Ecopetrol SA	$33.13	6.80%

* If I move stock to this list, it means there was a price drop or current price is somewhere in the middle.

I do not buy stocks at their highest prices. I might miss some good stocks but I prefer to sit and wait.

If I have a stock on my list, it means I like something about this stock. If I buy one of these stocks, it does not mean I plan to keep them forever. I might sell them if their price would go up a lot and I feel it's time to sell.

I love Sales on my regular shopping sprays and I use this strategy for my stock shopping... :)

Check A Frugal Family Journey Collection of Stock Analysis h ere. 

My complete Watch List of Dividends Stocks here. I update this watch list at least once a month.

My stock picking strategy here. 

Please share your thoughts and watch lists.

Thanks for stopping by!

My Weekly Stock List (7/26)

This week I did not sell any stocks but I bought shares of MCD@95.46. So I told my daughter that now I own a small piece of McDonald's and every time she or her brother buy food there I actually am getting some money back. :)


This picture was made in Russian McDonalds in 2000. :)




Here is my list for upcoming week:

Stock	Name, description	price as 7/26	Dividend Yield
GSK	GlaxoSmithCline	$48.60	4.70%
DRI	Darden Restaurant group	$44.66	4.40%
MAT	Mattel (toys - barbie, fisher price, baby gear, etc)	$35.30	3.90%
MCD	McDonalds	$95.72	3.20%
RCII	Rent-a-Center inc	$24.13	3.20%
WFM	Whole Food Market	$36.88	1.20%
ROST	Ross Stores	$63.46	1.20%

As you can see I added a new stock to my current watch list.

GSK - GlaxoSmithCline is trading at 52 weeks low due to not good earning report and I guess news about bribery in Syria. I have this stock on my main watch list for a while but finally price went down. 

We all know this drug manufacturing company, which manufacture most of vaccines, some specific prescription drugs as well as over counter medicine and everyday products like Aquafresh, Sensodyne, Tums... Plus they are in process of Research and Development on many new drugs and vaccines.

4.7% Dividend Yield paid for more than 20 years sounds great to me.

PE 13.81, 1 Year Target price is $58. 

Read my post about ROST - ROSS Dress for Less stores - here, 

DRI - Darden Restaurant group, RCII - Rent-a-Center  here, 

MAT - Mattel - here

By the way if you are a big Harley Davidson (HOG) fan, check out their stock. It is trading in the middle of 52 weeks low/high. But their dividends only 1.5%, although projected 1 year Target price have room to grow.


Also check A Frugal Family Journey Collection of Stock Analysis here. 

My complete Watch List of Dividends Stocks here. I update this watch list at least once a month.

My stock picking strategy here. 

Please share your thoughts and watch lists.

Thanks for stopping by!