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[phil13]

Hello, I discovered your site a few months ago and congratulate you on its high quality. I have two questions:
- If you want to start building a dividend portfolio today, would you recommend buying only the stocks mentioned in the "strong buy" and "buy" sections, or all those in your portfolio?
- You don't mention the % of your portfolio invested in each stock. I believe you currently hold 16 stocks. Does each one represent 5 to 6% of your portfolio, or do some of your positions represent a larger share?
Thank you for your reply and have a good weekend.

[Jerome]

Good morning

of course, strong buy and buy stocks are the ones I prefer to buy. There are others which I bought at the time and which have evolved into watch/hold or hold. In my opinion, these are less attractive stocks to buy at present.

But you'll probably be able to find good reasons why you think these stocks are still buying opportunities. The reverse can also be true: stocks that I consider buying opportunities may seem unattractive to you. What's important is that you're comfortable with what you're doing.

As regards the weighting of stocks, I always buy for the same fixed amount, after which it depends on price fluctuations. As I have 20 stocks in total (16 from the global dividend growers strategy and 4 from the swiss value dividend stocks), and as the stocks are not very volatile, we stay around 5% per stock.

[Lopazz]

By the way Jérôme, how do you integrate company news into your selection process? Sometimes, bad news can be a deterrent...

[Jerome]

To be honest, I don't pay much attention to them. Most of the time it's just "pollution" that moves the price. As my primary focus is on income, bad news, up to a point, could even be an opportunity to buy a dividend annuity at a better price. But for this to happen, of course, the company has to be solid, hence the importance of the payout ratio and the history of increasing dividends.

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