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Showing posts with label Kraft Foods Group. Show all posts

I Bought Campbell Soup Shares In Compensation For My Heinz Stake


Yesterday was a bad day because Warren took one of my long-term investments, Heinz (HNZ), to take the company private. He paid a price of $72.50 and gave me a total return including FX-Gains of 24 percent. The total purchase price is 23.25 billion. Most of the value goes on Buffett’s accounts.

Warren buys Heinz at a P/E of 22.73 and a yield of 2.84%. All price ratios are not cheap especially when you look at mid-term growth rates. But more interesting is the alternative in a low interest environment. I believe that the current yield covers a big part of the long-term loan of the deal and as a private company, there are much more possibilities.

However, as I heard the news yesterday, I needed to search alternatives for the free money. I decided to pull the trigger for a buy of 100 Campbell Soup (CPB) shares. My CPB stake is worth a little bit more than the old Heinz position. I am really worried about the lower possibilities on the market. In my niche, good investment vehicles getting rare and I must focus or concentrate more money on less stocks.

The whole industry realized a quick cash injection yesterday. I don’t know why exactly. Mostly because Warren's buy is a clear signal from one of the most trusted investors. Beyond, there are now $23 billion of additional cash in the market which must be invested on the rest of the industry players. As a result, prices for all competitors must increase.

Heinz was bought for an EV/EBITDA ratio of 13x. CPB has a ratio of 9.64x. The current P/E is 16.41 and the yield amounts to 3.0 percent. I still own several major players from the industry. CPB was a lack in my portfolio. That’s the main reason.

Unilever: A Great Foods and Consumer Stock Added To My Dividend Yield Passive Income Portfolio


Last Friday I bought 35 Unilever (UL) shares for the Dividend Yield Passive Income Portfolio (DYPI). The full purchase amount was $1,392.75 and represents roughly 1.3 percent of the portfolio worth.

Unilever is a major diversified food company with headquarter in the United Kingdom. Unilever PLC operates as a fast-moving consumer goods company in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. It offers personal care products, including skin care and hair care products, deodorants, and oral care products.

UL has a strong market position is several markets worldwide and is one of the dominant global player in the emerging markets. 32.82 percent of sales are generated in the Americans nations, 31.83 percent in Europe and 32.33 percent in Asian/Pacific countries. With this in mind, Unilever is behind Nestlé one of the world best diversified foods and consumer goods distributor.

Dividends and EPS
The new stake will give me additional $50 in dividends per year. The full expected portfolio dividend income is now $1,016.08. The passive income should grow to a total amount of 3k – 4k by the end of this year. This should be possible with my current cash position.

I paid $26,377.20 for all 19 stocks combined. Now, they are worth $27,581.25. Not enough, I still have $73.7k in cash for further investments and I plan to increase the current stock holdings to a total number of 50-70 shares. So I try to put every Friday one position with an attractive yield into the portfolio. I follow a buy and hold strategy and like to use the dividends for further investments. The investment horizon is long-term, 10 years or more.

Portfolio Holdings (Click to enlarge)

Latest Portfolio Transactions (Click to enlarge)

This is my investment approach. If you like to make money by trading stocks and realizing a quick return, this is the wrong investment site. Dividend growth stocks will not make you rich in a short period but they can deliver you a solid return over the long-run. I talk about a performance of around 8% in average.

The DYPI portfolio was funded with 100k virtual on October 03, 2012. The aim is to show how long-term dividend growth stock investing works. I personally made huge amount of money only by buying dividend stocks, receiving dividends and selling them in order to invest the new money into more attractive stocks. This strategy resulted in a yearly double-digit return.

Well, Unilever is a great stock but also not really cheap. The current P/E is at 19.34 and the forward P/E is 15.80. The yield is at 3.25%, that’s ok in my view. You might think that I am betting on the foods and consumer sector and a strong gaining momentum. That’s not right. I believe that the sector has great values for long-term investors. Most of the best and safest dividend stocks come from the consumer and foods sector.

The full DYPI portfolio is up 1.34% since the funding date. The stocks alone generated a return of 4.56%. That’s a slightly underperformance but the volatility was also much lower. What do you think about Unilever? Do you own some shares of the company or do you like competitors of Unilever much more? Let me know by leaving a comment.

The income perspective:


Sym
Name
P/E Ratio
Dividend Yield

Buy
# Shrs
Income
Value
TRI
Thomson Reuters C
N/A
4.17

28.90
50
$64.00
$1,534.50
LMT
Lockheed Martin C
10.53
4.72

92.72
20
$83.00
$1,760.20
INTC
Intel Corporation
9.86
4.21

21.27
50
$44.25
$1,050.00
MCD
McDonald's Corpor
17.71
3.03

87.33
15
$43.05
$1,423.05
WU
Western Union Com
7.26
2.9

11.95
100
$42.50
$1,466.00
PM
Philip Morris Int
17.5
3.63

85.42
20
$65.58
$1,809.00
JNJ
Johnson & Johnson
19.56
3.18

69.19
20
$48.00
$1,509.60
MO
Altria Group Inc
16.85
4.9

33.48
40
$68.00
$1,387.60
SYY
Sysco Corporation
17.37
3.45

31.65
40
$43.60
$1,264.40
DRI
Darden Restaurant
13.53
4.08

46.66
30
$57.90
$1,420.80
CA
CA Inc.
12.72
3

21.86
50
$37.50
$1,251.00
PG
Procter & Gamble
17.19
2.97

68.72
25
$56.20
$1,893.75
KRFT
Kraft Foods Group
14.32
4.26

44.41
40
$80.00
$1,876.00
MAT
Mattel Inc.
18.15
3.08

36.45
40
$49.60
$1,612.80
PEP
Pepsico Inc. Com
19.33
2.93

70.88
20
$42.56
$1,452.00
KMB
Kimberly-Clark Co
20.57
3.26

86.82
15
$44.40
$1,363.50
COP
ConocoPhillips Co
8.61
4.56

61.06
20
$52.80
$1,157.40
GIS
General Mills In
15.72
3.04

42.13
30
$38.85
$1,278.00
UL
Unilever PLC Comm
19.88
3.25

39.65
35
$54.29
$1,387.75
















$1,016.08
$27,897.35
















Average Yield
3.64%
















Yield On Cost
3.82%

Kraft Foods Group Shares Are New In Our Dividend Yield Passive Income Portfolio

Kraft Foods Group (KRFT)
New Dividend Stock For The Passive Yield Income Portfolio
Last Friday I put 40 Kraft Foods Group shares into the dividend yield passive income portfolio (DYPI) at cost of $44.41 per share. The total amount was $1,778.

Kraft Foods is the major diversified food company within in the United States. Roughly 20% of sales are generated outside the United States.

The shares are weighted at 1.7% of the total yield income portfolio and they will generate an annualized dividend income of 76 bucks per year. The total income is now around $700 per year. My investment costs were $18,000 and the yield on cost is 3.68%.

The portfolio was funded with $100,000 virtual, 3 months before and has now 13 stock holdings. I tried to put every Friday one stock into the portfolio. The efforts are not very high. The stock has normally a strong brand and good dividends or something else that sells. Buy Big Dividend Stocks is one of the head points.

What I try to do is to invest money into mid-yielding stocks, stocks with a dividend yield of around 2-4%. It is hard to find stocks that pay a yield over 3% and have a high-quality and proven business model.

Because the portfolio is 1.45% down since I funded it, the current portfolio yield is 3.72%. That is a bad performance you would say. You are right for the time being. But the strategy is to buy slowly and over long period. Returns are realized over a long investment horizon and not over month and hours.

If you want to get quick rich you should avoid buying stocks, penny stocks high-yields or something else. You should play with the money in Las Vegas. Or start to work - Your payments per hour are much higher.

But this is not the philosophy of a smart investor. Wise investors invest their money into great companies with growth potential that is fairly priced. If you are an anxious investor, please put your money in value stocks with growth potential. Dividends will come from alone if your company is managed by trustful employees. Finally, the time brings the return.

Until the end of next year 2013, I like to increase the amount of stock holdings to 52 - 70 in total. This should be realistic. All I need to do is to buy one stock the week. If I should realize this, the full dividend income should be around $3,500 per year.

So why did I bought Kraft Foods shares for the dividend yield passive income portfolio?

There are several reasons for the buy. Kraft Foods manufactures and markets food and beverage products, including convenient meals, refreshment beverages and coffee, cheese and other grocery products, in the United States and Canada, under a stable of iconic brands. The Company's product categories span breakfast, lunch and dinner meal occasions, both at home and in foodservice locations. It sells its products to supermarket chains, wholesalers, supercenters, club stores, mass merchandisers, distributors, convenience stores, drug stores, gasoline stations, value stores and other retail food outlets in the United States and Canada.

The first reason is that the dividend yield is around 4.5%. That's a pretty high figure for a food company with great value and strong brands. In addition the new Kraft Foods Group is one of the biggest food players in North America. The company is nearly dept free and has enough potential to be a consolidation leader.

Kraft Foods Group generates roughly 2.6 billion cash from operating activities at 400 million capital expenditures. Calculated on this amounts I expect that the company will become around 4 billion in debt in order to finance further growth, repurchase own shares or even to increase dividends.

If we take a look at competitors like Heinz General Mills or Campbell Soup we could see that the evaluation is not cheap but also not expensive. The reason why KRFT shares are cheaper than the competitors is the low amount of dept.
The current P/E ratio from Kraft Foods is 13.53. Heinz has a P/E ratio of 17.94, General Mills P/E ratio is at 14.78 and Campbell Soup is traded at 14.65 times of earnings.

I've no idea how fast the company can grow in the near future. For the next five years, earnings per share are expected to grow by 6.3%. That's one of the top values from peer.

What do you think about Kraft Foods? So you believe in future of the company and was the spin-off into Kraft Foods Group and Mondelez a wise decision? Let me know and leave the comment in the box below.

Here is the full portfolio:

Sym
Name
P/E Ratio
Dividend Yield

Buy
# Shrs
Income
Value
TRI
Thomson Reuters C
N/A
4.47

28.90
50
$64.00
$1,443.50
LMT
Lockheed Martin C
10.48
4.54

92.72
20
$83.00
$1,809.00
INTC
Intel Corporation
8.82
4.3

21.27
50
$43.50
$1,018.50
MCD
McDonald's Corpor
16.49
3.28

87.33
15
$43.05
$1,305.00
WU
Western Union Com
6.62
3.18

11.95
100
$42.50
$1,332.00
PM
Philip Morris Int
16.53
3.97

85.42
20
$65.58
$1,649.41
JNJ
Johnson & Johnson
22.76
3.45

69.19
20
$48.00
$1,389.00
MO
Altria Group Inc
16.2
5.47

33.48
40
$68.00
$1,240.40
SYY
Sysco Corporation
16.71
3.44

31.65
40
$43.20
$1,250.00
DRI
Darden Restaurant
12.7
4.19

46.66
30
$55.80
$1,333.49
CA
CA Inc.
11.06
4.59

21.86
50
$50.00
$1,085.50
PG
Procter & Gamble
18.7
3.29

68.72
25
$55.28
$1,677.75
KRFT
Kraft Foods Group
13.56
1.13

44.41
40
$20.00
$1,778.00
















$681.91
$18,311.55
















Average Yield
3.72%
















Yield On Cost
3.68%