$NOC (-0,02 %) "Northrop Grumman’s AN/ALQ-257 Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite (IVEWS) has successfully completed U.S. Air Force testing. This suite is now cleared for flight testing, marking a significant milestone in electronic warfare capabilities."
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Depot update:
I have again exchanged a few of my 45 long-term individual positions for stocks that I simply feel more comfortable with for the next few years.
Once again, a brief summary of my strategy:
1) I want to bring the two large ETF positions to 25% weighting each, as the core of the portfolio.
2) I would like to hold and save the 45 individual positions for the long term, as I consider them to be good buy & hold investments that have the potential to beat the market in the long term.
3) I would like to hold cryptos at a weighting of around 5%. If the weighting exceeds 10%, I halve it again and invest the money freed up in equities.
Considerations/plans:
- Additional purchases are planned for positions that are not yet as large for me, for example. $NOC (-0,02 %) I would like each position to be at least €600
- Also bid $V (-1,68 %)
$CNR (-1,26 %) and $WALMEX* (-0,35 %) are currently offering me good opportunities for additional purchases - I am currently considering "only" weighting the two ETFs with 20% each and also adding the $CSNDX (+1,71 %) with a 10% weighting... But I don't think I will do that, the heavyweights from the Nasdaq 100 are already well weighted in my portfolio anyway
What do you think about the portfolio, what would you change?
PS: I'm not actively looking to collect a lot of dividends and I'm aware of the high number of individual stocks, so I can live with that.
Armaments shares from 🇺🇸 in comparison, the last 20 years, you can see only after 10 years have the 🚀 ignited.
I only have a large position in Lockheed and a small one in RTX.
But I invest in all 5 via a savings plan 😊👍
Do you have one or two armor stocks in your portfolio?
$LMT (-0,72 %)
$RTX (-0,19 %)
$GD (-0,16 %)
$NOC (-0,02 %)
$LHX (-0,1 %)
Depot review March 2024 - And on, and on, and on,...
March picks up where February left off. And before that, January, December, November,...
In total, March was +2,9%! This was less than in January and February and was mainly driven by the first half of March. In total, this corresponded to price gains of ~8.000€.
Winners & losers:
On the winners' side is getting really boring. In 1st place, of course: NVIDIA
$NVDA (+3,67 %) with share price gains of ~€2,100. 2nd place goes to Alphabet
$GOOG (+0,98 %) with €1,000. But also Bitcoin $BTC (+4,06 %) also showed a strong performance with price gains of €800. The top 5 is then rounded off by two securities that I would rarely expect to see in the top 5: The MSCI World ETF $XDWD (+1,27 %) and the German Bank $DBK (+1,72 %)
On the losers' side there is a lot of tech. With Palo Alto Networks $PANW (+0,3 %) and MercadoLibre $MELI (-0,23 %)
two high growth tech stocks that were already at the bottom in February.
In addition Apple $AAPL (+2,87 %)
Nike $NKE (+9,5 %)
and Starbucks $SBUX (+0,07 %) were weaker.
The performance-neutral movements in March amounted to € 1,300. As in January and February, a larger proportion is currently being spent on private expenses. Nevertheless, I was able to invest significantly more net in March than in January and February. I bought just over €2,000 in March. However, the net figure for the pure securities portfolio is a minus, as I sold my Encavis
$ECV (+0,73 %) shares after the takeover offer from KKR. As a result, ~€2,600 flowed out of my securities account, which is now in the clearing account for 4%.
My performance for the current year is +14,7% and thus well above my benchmark, the MSCI World with 11.2%.
In total, my portfolio currently stands at ~291.000€. This corresponds to an absolute growth of ~€39,000 in the current year 2023. ~36.000€ of this comes from price gains, ~720€ from dividends / interest and ~2.000€ from additional investments.
Dividend:
- Dividends in March were +30% above the previous year at ~€350
- In the current year, the dividends after 3 months are also +30% over the first three months of 2023 at ~630€.
- In March, there was also a dividend for the first time from Meta $META (+3,24 %)
Buys & Sells:
- I bought in March for approx. 2.000€
- Of which 500€ each in Hermes $RMS (+3,41 %) and Constellation Software $CSU (+3,2 %) as a first purchase
- In addition, the first few euros saveback from the Trade Republic card were also invested
- As always, my savings plans were executed:
- Blue ChipsNorthrop Grumman $NOC (-0,02 %) MasterCard $MA (-0,63 %) Salesforce $CRM (+5,04 %) Deere $DE (+1,49 %) Lockheed Martin $LMT (-0,72 %) ASML $ASML (+4,37 %) Thermo Fisher $TMO (+1,27 %) Itochu $8001 (+4,11 %) Republic Services $RSG (+0,47 %) Hermes $RMS (+3,41 %) Constellation Software $CSU (+3,2 %)
- Growth: -
- ETFsMSCI World $XDWD Nikkei 225 $XDJP and the WisdomTree Global Quality Dividend Growth $GGRP
- CryptoBitcoin $BTC and Ethereum $ETH
- Sales there was the (involuntary) sale of Encavis in March $ECV (+0,73 %)
Even though I was only able to add €2,000 net to my portfolio in the first quarter, the snowball had a very clear effect. Nevertheless, I will of course be investing more again in the medium term.
Target 2024:
My goal for this year is to reach 300.000€ in the portfolio. Now that my portfolio is already at €291,000, I have almost reached my target as of March.
However, I am still of the opinion that the markets will soon enter a sideways trend. In my opinion, this was already slightly indicated in the second half of March.
Northrop Grumman today About us
Northrop Grumman is a leading global aerospace and defense company.
and defense technology company. Our pioneering
Solutions equip our customers with the capabilities
They must connect and protect the world, and
expand the frontiers of human exploration
the universe. Driven by a common goal to solve
The most difficult problems our customers, our employees
every day.
Figures:
84.2 billion US dollar backlog 2023
39.3 billion US dollars sales 2023
$2.1B 2023 free cash flow(1)
2.6 billion US dollars dividends 2023 and share buybacks
What we do
We build some of the most beautiful in the world
advanced aircraft. From the innovative
stealth bomber B-2 Spirit to the
groundbreaking X-47B, in addition to
powerful airborne sensors and systems.
Northrop Grumman for decades
protected the U.S. Armed Forces and our allies by
designing, developing and delivering
weapons of increasing complexity and
capabilities for expanded missions and
domains.
Sources:
https://investor.northropgrumman.com/
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