Summary of July 2021

 

Summary of July 2021

Some minor dividends dropped in so nothing really to brag about. Third year in a row with the same payment from VW as an example.

I have not yet bought any new stocks this month. The cash has been transferred over so I am sitting on it but lately I have become very interested in buying an apartment. There is currently a scandal taking place in the UK due to the unfortunate fire in an apartment building in London that costed many lives. This should never have happened but in true political spirit the politicians overreacted and created regulations that have now locked around 1.2 million people from being able to sell their apartments. It all comes down to document EWS1 and if that is not made by a fully trained person OR there are some corrections that need to be made on the property building then all the banks refuse to give a mortgage... meaning from the point of view of the banks the value of the apartments are zero. There are several downsides... must pay in cash, costs for correction of buildings and time is an unknown. It is however still legal to live there and it is still legal to rent it out... due to Covid-19 the Asian students are still staying away from studying in the UK but they are very cash strong. I see significant opportunities with this but there are of course also massive risks. I also do not like that I must then sell off stocks to make the cash buy. I will also live much, much smaller than what I do now so that is also not great but at least it will be central and I could hopefully enjoy life outside my house a bit more.

Work is going ok but I am tired and I seriously need a break / vacation.

For the previous summary please visit Summary of June 2021 and here you can see my stock portfolio as it is.

The total invested value is now at: 228,488 €. Monthly investments were made in the Mixed ETF and nothing else.

The value of the portfolio is today: 333,034 € and I have 4,952 € in cash on my broker accounts. I have realised gains of 2,498 € and unrealised of 104,546 € (31%) which is not good enough but it is improving. My ETFs are now up at a value of 60% of my portfolio.

DAX is now up at 15,761 points which means that it has increased by 0.7% since the previous summary and my own portfolio has increased by 1.0% in the same time period.

Conclusion: DAX had another month with a positive outcome and so did I. Several shares have gone down but not enough to have a significant impact on the overall development. Started to think about buying an apartment but it might be too high risk and put my future plans in jeopardy.

Dividends during July 2021

 

From the infamous German car manufacturer VW I received 58.32 € in dividends after which the taxman took some and left me with 42.94 € as cash on my broker account.

ABF the conglomerate owning Primark also decided to make a payment and from them I received 14.37 € as cash on my broker account.

Summary of June 2021

 

Summary of June 2021

Several smaller dribbles of dividends arrived this month which is always nice!

Due to the payment of the repairs from the previous months breakdown of my car as well as an upcoming staycation here in the UK I have not managed to transfer as much funds as I would have liked to my broker account. This means that I will hold on making any investments this month and will have to make it next month instead.

The losses associated with Stock X is annoying. A sure thing is never sure. I still have a small holding but not enough to make a true difference in either direction.

Work is starting to look a bit brighter again and the projects starts to take off after a long period of treading water. Working on putting together a list for the next developments that will be made in the company and I look forward to how the board will look upon them in the next six months period.

For the previous summary please visit Summary of May 2021 and here you can see my stock portfolio as it is.

The total invested value is now at: 224,520 €. Monthly investments were made in the Mixed ETF and Rio Tinto. Majority of Stock X was sold.

The value of the portfolio is today: 325,187 € and I have 2,515 € in cash on my broker accounts. I have realised gains of 2,498 € and unrealised of 100,667 € (31%) which is not good enough but it is improving. My ETFs are now up at a value of 59% of my portfolio.

DAX is now up at 15,650 points which means that it has increased by 0.8% since the previous summary and my own portfolio has increased by 1.3% in the same time period.

Conclusion: DAX had another month with a positive outcome while I must say that many of my shares went down. My saviour this month was clearly the pension fund that has done surprisingly well! There are some significant costs coming on the summerhouse this year which means that I need to have at least 30k € more in my coffins and if I want to be able to get my own house in Sweden I will need additional money for that... So my target can no longer be 350k € but instead I will need at least 430k €. How quickly situations change...

Dividends during June 2021

 

From McDonalds I received 25.58 € in cash on my broker account.

From Shell I received this time 38.55€ as cash on my UK broker account.

From Nike I received 7.85€ out as cash.

From BP I received 34.47€ directly as cash on my broker account.

My American cloth company TJX paid me 11.56€ as cash.

The final one was from Intel and I received 32.48€ as cash after the taxman had taken his deserved part.

Sold and bought stock in June 2021

 

The development of Stock X did not live up to the expectations and therefore I significantly reduced my holding of it. I sold 1060 shares and received 2571.61 € out as cash on my broker account. This gave me a loss of 24% or -941.26 € during the 6 months holding period. It will be brought into the realised G/L in the next monthly summary report.

I decided to increase my Rio Tinto holding and I therefore bought 33 more shares which totalled up to 2341.78 €. This change will also be included in the monthly summary report.