No. 20 · Monday, October 26, 2026 A real dividend portfolio, in the open Get the Monday email
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This week's pick · No. 20
Repeat buy

McCormick (MKC), again

McCormick & Company, Incorporated logoConsumer Staples · first bought August 17, 2026

Week twenty, Monday, and two milestones in one morning: the twentieth $100 went in, and for the first time since June the portfolio is worth more than we have put into it. We bought more McCormick (MKC), the spice and flavor company we first bought in week ten, at $48.35 a share. It is our fourth repeat buy, and it comes with a scorecard that needs more explanation than any we have published.

Read the week 20 write-up

100 · Exceptionalby box
Pays
20/20
Raises
20/20
Safe
20/20
Undervalued
20/20
Yield that matters
20/20

Invested$101.91

$100.00 deposit + $1.91 pooled dividends

Shares bought2.1077 at $48.35

Income this buy adds$4.05 a year

Position now3.9305 shares

Position pays$7.55 a year

What the portfolio pays
$73.63

a year in dividends, about $6.14 a month, from $2,000 deposited over 20 Mondays.

Forward estimate at each company's most recently declared rate. $11.58 has actually been paid so far, all of it reinvested.

Income after each week's buy

$0$50Week 1, Tractor Supply, total $3.11Week 2, Medtronic, total $6.74Week 3, Realty Income, total $11.95Week 4, NextEra Energy, total $14.81Week 5, PepsiCo, total $19.07Week 6, Automatic Data Processing, total $21.77Week 7, Lowe's Companies, total $24.14Week 8, T. Rowe Price Group, total $28.78Week 9, Nike, total $32.74Week 10, McCormick, total $36.24Week 11, NextEra Energy, total $39.22Week 12, Comcast, total $44.19Week 13, PPG Industries, total $46.88Week 14, EOG Resources, total $49.59Week 15, Bank OZK, total $53.77Week 16, Lowe's Companies, total $56.47Week 17, Zoetis, total $59.60Week 18, Realty Income, total $65.55Week 19, HP, total $69.58Week 20, McCormick, total $73.63Wk 1Wk 7Wk 13Wk 20

Week 20 · Oct 26 · McCormick (MKC) added $4.05/yr. Total after this buy: $73.63 a year.

Projection, not a promise

If we keep going for 10 years

the portfolio would pay about $3,077 a year ($256 a month), from $54,000 deposited.

$3,077/yr, year 10Today30 years

Assumes $100 every Monday, new buys and reinvested dividends yielding 3.64% (today's income divided by market value), and each holding raising its dividend at the rate we recorded for it, blended by income to 4.5% a year. Prices, yields and raises will differ. An illustration, not a forecast, and not financial advice.

Latest from the portfolio

No. 20McCormick (MKC), againOct 26 · adds $4.05/yr
No. 19HP (HPQ)Oct 19 · adds $4.03/yr
No. 18Realty Income (O), againOct 12 · adds $5.96/yr

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