Hello everyone,

I wanted to share my portfolio and my strategy with you today.

I've been active on the stock market since 2022.

Like many people, the start was not perfect. In the beginning, I traded back and forth too much, bought and sold shares only because of short-term movements and often went with my gut feeling rather than a clear strategy.

In the meantime, however, I am really happy with my portfolio and, above all, with my direction.

I invest for the long term, broadly diversified and hedge all my positions (except $ISPA (+1,16%)) on a monthly basis.

I no longer worry about short-term price movements.

A few books, which I have already presented in a separate article, have also been particularly helpful.

My portfolio is divided into two areas:

ETFs at Trade Republic:

• Vanguard FTSE All-World ($VWRL (+1,72%)) is my basic investment and forms the backbone of my portfolio
• Fidelity Global Quality Income ($FGEQ (+0,69%) ) I find the ETF's approach very interesting
• iShares STOXX Global Select Dividend 100 ($ISPA (+1,16%) ) I still have from my early days. It will probably be completely switched into the VWRL sooner or later
• iShares Physical Gold ($IGLN (-0,17%) ) is intended as a small addition

Individual stocks at Scalable Capital

I have specifically selected six established companies that I am betting on for the long term.

They are not insider tips, but for me they are solid and easy to understand:

• Microsoft ($MSFT (+8,25%) )
• Apple ($AAPL (-0,45%) )
• Visa ($V (+3,29%) )
• Coca-Cola ($KO (+0,09%) )
• Allianz ($ALV (+0,48%) )
• Realty Income ($O (-0,04%) )

If I find any exciting additions in the future, I would like to expand the stock selection to a maximum of ten stocks.

I invest in all my ETFs (except $ISPA (+1,16%)) and shares on a monthly basis.

I also make targeted individual purchases from time to time.

This gives me a clear structure, keeps me disciplined and allows my portfolio to grow.

I'm glad that I've learned from my beginner's mistakes and have now found a strategy that suits me.

How did you get started in the stock market and what helped you find your way?

Following the reallocation of $FGEQ (+0,69%) into the $VWRL (+1,72%) I have invested 6 figures in the core for the first time. I am currently well on course to reach my target of 140k in the portfolio, but I still believe that the stock markets will have more difficult months in August and September.

The start of summer in June combined sport and leisure for me. By that I mean swimming, hiking, running and sport at home. Apart from the incoming dividends, I hardly noticed anything on the stock market. It was not the strongest distribution month due to the postponement of three distributions, but it was still a very strong one. Time for a review.

Overall performance

The portfolio tended to tread water in June, but that is no cause for concern. Bit by bit, it is fighting its way out of the lows of the customs conflict. And cash flow continues to be generated by distributions to the clearing accounts. The key performance indicators are:

• TTWROR (month of May): +0.19 %
• TTWROR (since inception): +65,45 %
• IZF (month of May): +2.47 %
• IZF (since inception): +10,21 %
• Delta: +€148.63
• Absolute change: +1,173.63 €

Share allocation & performance

Which shares performed particularly well in June? Which are at the top and which at the bottom of the rankings? Which were the biggest losers?

Size of individual share positions by volume

• Share: Share of total portfolio in % (securities account)
• $AVGO (+3,25%) 2.78 % (main share portfolio)
• $NFLX (+2,22%) 2.20 % (main share portfolio)
• $WMT (+0,08%) 1.71 % (main share portfolio)
• $SAP (+2,08%) 1.59 % (main share portfolio)
• $FAST (-0,25%) 1.55 % (main share portfolio)

Smallest individual share positions by volume:

• Share: Share of total portfolio in % (securities account)
• $SHEL (-0,89%) 0.44 % (crypto follow-on portfolio)
• $HSBA (-3,7%) 0.54 % (crypto follow-on portfolio)
• $TGT (+0,1%) 0.62 % (main share portfolio)
• $GIS (-0,54%) 0.63 % (main share portfolio)
• $CPB (-1,09%) 0.64 % (main share portfolio)

Top-performing individual shares

• Share: Performance since first purchase % (securities account)
• $AVGO (+3,25%) : +261 % (main share portfolio)
• $NFLX (+2,22%) : +198 % (main share portfolio)
• $SAP (+2,08%) +106 % (main share portfolio)
• $WMT (+0,08%) : +68 % (main share portfolio)
• $RSG (-3,96%) +47 % (main share portfolio)

Flop performer individual shares

• Share: Performance since first purchase % (securities account)
• $DHR (-0,45%) -57 % (main share portfolio)
• $CPB (-1,09%) -42 % (main share portfolio)
• $TGT (+0,1%) -37 % (main share portfolio)
• $GIS (-0,54%) -36 % (main share portfolio)
• $NKE (-1,01%) -30 % (main share portfolio)

ETFs vs. shares

The breakdown of ETFs vs. shares across all portfolios is 38.7% to 61.3%. This differs from the breakdown of my ETFs to equities savings plans (43% to 57%). Equities have performed better, which is due to the fact that I also include high-dividend ETFs in the ETFs.

Investments and additional purchases

Here is a brief overview of what I have invested in savings plans according to my fixed planning.

• Planned savings plan amount from the fixed net salary: €1,030
• Planned savings plan amount from the fixed net salary, with reinvested dividends: €1,140
• Savings ratio of the savings plans to the fixed net salary: 49.75

In addition, there were the following additional investments from returns, refunds, cashback, etc. as one-off savings plans/repurchases:

• Subsequent purchases/one-off savings plans as cashback annuity from refunds: € 32.32
• Automatically reinvested dividend by broker: € 7.25 (Function is only activated for an old custody account, as I want to control the reinvestment myself)

Additional purchases were made from other surpluses:

• Number of additional purchases: 2
• 25.00 € for $FGEQ (+0,69%)

There were no additional purchases from the components of my cashback pension (e.g. reimbursements from health insurance premiums, insurance premiums, shopping vouchers, etc.) this month.

If you would like to know how my cashback pension supplements my equity and ETF pension, please let me know.

Passive income from dividends

My income from dividends amounted to € 152.30 (€ 179.04 in the same month last year). This corresponds to an increase of -14.94 % compared to the same month last year. The following is further key data on the distributions:

• Number of dividend payments: 31
• Number of payment days: 15 days
• Average dividend per payment: € 4.91
• average dividend per payday: € 10.15

The top payers are:

• $VNA (-0,67%)
• 
  $ARCC (+2,22%)
• 
  $TDIV (+0,55%)

My passive income from dividends (and some interest) mathematically covered 15.91% of my expenses in the month under review.

Crypto performance

My crypto investments also moved a little:

• Monthly performance portfolio: +3.81 %
• Performance since inception: +79.49 %
• Proportion of holdings for which the tax holding period has expired: 100%. This means that there have been no additional purchases for over a year.
• Crypto share of the total portfolio: 2.19 %

I find the topic exciting, but it is very underrepresented in my overall portfolio due to my passive income strategy. The first profits have already been realized and more will definitely follow. For me, crypto is a lever to turn play money into even more play money, which is then put into the solid distributors to make the income snowball grow bigger and bigger. New accumulation will take place in the coming bear market.

Performance comparison: portfolio vs. benchmarks

A comparison of my portfolio with two important ETFs shows:

• TTWROR (current month): +0.19 %
• $VWRL (+1,72%) : +0.39 %
• $VUSA (+1,5%) : +1.24 %

Outlook and conclusion

I'm using the summer, which has already begun, not only for hiking, but also for city trips for my "non-financial" TikTok and Insta channel. I can often be found at one of the lakes near Leipzig, which were once created from the open-cast mining pits of the brown coal era. It's nice that the lunar landscapes have become a local recreation area. That's why I'm less active at the moment. That will certainly change again in the fall.

For now, I'm just enjoying life, and my money continues to work stubbornly and steadily for me in the background. Current events in the world and in politics don't interest me in the slightest. As I write this review, the first third of the summer will soon be over.

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How did your June at the depot go? Do you have any tops & flops to share? Leave your thoughts in the comments!

I had included this ETF $GGRP (+0,47%) in my portfolio at the time because the overall performance was supposed to be very good. In the meantime, and mainly because of the dividend cut some time ago, it is lagging behind quite a bit in my portfolio. Is this due to the market situation and there will be times again when it performs better than, for example, the $VWCE (+1,36%) or is the ETF simply no longer as attractive?

I still have the $FGEQ (+0,69%) which performs significantly better. I'm thinking about $GGRP (+0,47%) out and reallocate.

I took a few interesting screenshots comparing $QDEV (+0,83%) with other popular indexes $IWDA (+1,02%) , $CSPX (+1,52%) , $FGEQ (+0,69%) and $VWRL (+1,72%)

It is about the annualized 10-year total return (price + dividends)

World Quality Aristocrats: ≈15%

MSCI World: ≈11%

S&P500: ≈13%

FTSE All-World: ≈10%

Fidelity: ≈11%

Reallocation to $VWRL (+1,72%)

$VWRL (+1,72%) You can simply be relied upon...

Dividend announcement 06/2025:

0.8684 USD

For comparison 06/2024: USD 0.7889

All the smart beta ETFs $FGEQ (+0,69%)
$GGRP (+0,47%) etc. should take a leaf out of their book.

The donkey @DonkeyInvestor is right after all.

Hello dear getquin community and dear dividend investors,

inspired by some users (@Simpson I'm looking at you!) here and have been thinking about it myself for some time, I would also like to put together a sustainable and high-quality dividend stock ETF. I used the tool from Aktienfinder.net and paid attention to growth in earnings, growth in dividends and growth in overall price performance. I also wanted to diversify a little more broadly across several countries and sectors so that it covers a lot all round.

I have put together a total of 60 shares (satellite), which I would like to invest €10 in each. I don't really want to do any reallocations, I've also focused mainly on established companies (moats etc.). It's a mix of dividend growth and share price growth together, so the dividends here range from 0.62% to 5.38%.

I realize that there are a lot of US companies here, but I think it's hard to avoid them.

My 6 ETFs serve as a core, which I would put on hold for the time being, but of course continue to generate cash flow:

$ISPA (+1,16%)

$EXX5 (+0,07%)

$FGEQ (+0,69%)

$IMEU (+0,15%)

$TDIV (+0,55%)

$VHYL (+1,17%)

My goal here is clearly to outperform a few of the ETFs mentioned above with the shares, be it in dividend yield after x years with better price growth overall.

What do you think of the selection?

@Simpson
@AlterMann
@Ayecaramba256