2million's Personal Finance Blog

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July 19, 2006

Latest Investments in My Portfolio

I just completed a couple investment purchases. Some stocks are looking very attractive to me and I wish I had additional cash on hand ready to make purchases. Here is what I have recently added to my portfolio:

Company

Ticker

Cost Basis*

Shares

Ebay

EBAY

$504

18.926

IBM (in 401k)

IBM

$2500

33.921

Medtronic

MDT

$500

10.669

Pfizer

PFE

$100

4.358



*Note: I have included transaction fees in my cost basis

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Comments (4)


DATE: 4:45 PM
Is it really worth it to purchase $100 worth of stock..I am looking to purchase some stocks.. Maybe gillette or something like that...

DATE: 4:47 PM
opps nevermind.. Gillette is owned by P@G...and P@G is the compay that has been raisings it's dividends... Hmmm and also been getting a lot of media coverage...

DATE: 8:13 PM
Well let me frame the $100 - I have a large holding (relative to the size of my portfolio) of Pfizer stock held in the DRIP account. I have been adding to it when I feel like Pfizer is a good buy in small quanities.Since there are no transaction costs I see no reason not to invest in Pfizer in small amounts

DATE: 10:34 PM
AHHH I got ya.... I want to set up a DRIP.... How did you do that? This is my first time investing in stocks as you can see..Would you mind helping me out?

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