April Portfolio and Networth Update

Hope your week is going well. Mine has been good so far, it has been a beautiful spring here in the Pacific Northwest. Well here it is, my portfolio and networth update for April. 

Buys/Sells:
I had only one purchase this month, I purchased 44 shares of NOV  @ $51.8799 a share. I should have written a post when I made the purchase but I barely made this purchase this month and I have actually been posting a lot more recently than I normally do. In the end there was not a whole lot to say about this purchase. I initially bought into NOV in January at $58.2199 so when I noticed that price had dropped it was an easy decision to add to my holdings.

FRIP
Scottrade offers a Flexible Reinvestment Plan, where dividends from qualifying companies can be used to purchase shares in any other qualifying companies without any commission. So I take advantage of this every month and I usually use it to build up my positions in companies where my positions are lagging.
This month my dividends were used to purchase 8 shares of Kimco Realty Corporation (KIM). As I have been saying for the last couple of month, this feature has been on autopilot for a long time now so I need to evaluated where best to invest these small chunks of money; I was 2 hours too late to change this for the month of April.

Loyal3
My Loyal3 account is going strong, automatically invest $50 of shares in 4 companies: The Walt Disney Company (DIS), Kellogg's (K), Pepsico (PEP), and Unilever (UL). As of March 31st my Loyal3 account stands:

Symbol	Shares	Total
DIS	1.4441	$157
UL	3.5072	$154
PEP	1.5598	$148
K	2.3192	$147
	Total	$606

I think I will let my Loyal3 account continue the automatic investing for a couple of months before I reevaluate.

Net Worth
Net worth will always be a secondary goal for me with generating passive income being my primary goal. But net worth is something I have started tracking. Given how much of my net worth is in stocks, my net worth will have a tendency to fluctuate frequently with the market but hopefully my net worth continue an overall upward trend over time.
Assets:

   - 401k:                   $83,043

   - Investments:        $74,791
   - Cash:                   $5,333

Liabilities

   - Student Loan 2:  $6,695

   - Car Loan:           $8,178

NETWORTH:       $148,379 up  6.5% from last month

Current Portfolio:

Symbol	Shares	Symbol	Shares
VHGEX	173.82	JNJ	17
VWIGX	177.917	KIM	77
VTRIX	110.62	KMI	104
AFL	57.08	KO	36
BBY	1	MAT	59
BNS	36	MRK	43
CIM	68	NOV	79
CVX	15	OHI	65
DLR	74	SNE	10
GE	86	SPY	10
HCP	56	T	103
HP	34	TGT	31
INTC	94	VZ	30
IYY	20	WFC	48

Well not much exciting happening to my portfolio this month, just one more purchase. Now that the big trip is over hopefully I will have some more time and money to focus on some solid dividend investing.

How about you? Any good purchases in April?

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