Well, that didn’t last long: Kimberly-Clark to acquire Kenvue
I hate it when that happens, one of my companies buys another one of my companies. OK, at least I reduce the amount of positions I hold.
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Bought more shitty cable companies today: Cable one.
Does anyone dare to buy or hold Comcast here?
I’m holding Comcast and charter. I’m more worried about debt load on CHTR.
Interesting article for FI investors: https://archive.is/20251030214612/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-30/fiserv-s-only-bear-is-a-26-year-old-analyst-who-beat-wall-street
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Yeah, Comcast (bag)holder here, too. 
I’m tempted to buy more, but my recent buy about a month ago was already violating my position sizing (by 0.07% 
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Bought another slice of Ingredion today.
Upon their earnings call a couple of days ago Mr Market had a fit. If they returned to their normal multiple of 13xP/E I’ll be celebrating. In the mean time, I’ll wipe away my tears with the dividends received.
Was considering selling a put on Sun Life, too (it dropped over 5% at market open upon Q3 earnings results), but the options weren’t really liquid (big spreads for the strikes I was interested in).
Price has recoved to just a 2.5% drop now. Selling an option now isn’t that interesting anymore as the fear factor has already evaporated.
Sun Life also just raised their dividend by 4.55%.
It’s OK, the continuing falls will bring position sizing back in line
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Actually, FI seems like good value now.
I actually do my position sizing based on dividends received, but your point is well taken.
Interesting. I was considering this too when starting, but the tests showed bad results. Big positions in falling knives. How do you resize?
The market dividend concept works better for me. And market dividends are free of tax. I use a fix position size of 4% initial and sell down to 5% once the position reaches 6%. There are some exceptions for bear markets. Works very nice for me, this year over 10% carry premium and I think Cummins pays the next one. That will catapult me to over 11% cash flow this year and, what is best, a performance over 14%. Tax already deducted of course.
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Now FI looks a lot like wirecard to me. Buying up some shops, probably backdoor in eastern countries to reach 46 billion of goodwill looks like somebody did shovel away a lot of cash.
And that is exactly how the chart looks:
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I currently typically mostly have “non full” positions (probably 8 or 9 out of 10).
When positions become full (i.e. “organically” grow above their target (dividend) percentage) I let them run as long as the fundamentals continue to make sense.[$] I don’t think I’ve sold posititions because their dividend yield exceeded my target “max 2%” of dividends in total.
I might sell partial positions because they seem overvalued (recently AVGO, LMT, IRM, SO, etc).
I have sold entire positions because they cut or eliminated their dividend (MMM, WBA, etc).
Positions not yet full I continue to fill as I see fit, depending on value, yield, etc. E.g. INGR today.
Edit:
Notably, Cummins has been on my sell candidate list because of its overvaluation, but I have resisted selling so far, even after it jumped about 7 or 8% today …
$ In my case currently
- ABBV: borderlilne
- BMY: borderline
- BTI: borderline
- CMCSA: borderline
- IMB: above
- LGEN: above
- MAIN: above
- MFC: borderline
- OZK: borderline
- PRU: above
- SPG: way above
- STT: borderline
- UNM: way above
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Same here, but my momentum filter says stop, don’t sell. I take the CMI market dividends but hold the rest of the position as long as it is in the better half of momentum in my dividend strategy. It is at position 3. Same for AVGO which is at position 1. Interesting enough position 2 is occupied by IBM which is still on buy. But I buy only if the position is lower than 4% of total value. Buy low sell high.
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It happened again. At the weekend, I was reviewing stocks and thought “hmm. SOC at $5.48 looks ok to buy.”
I just log on to IBKR to buy and… SOC already up +30%. 
But rule #1 “don’t lose money” and buying SOC has a big chance of losing money.