Week #1TSCO
Stock of the Week #1 — Tractor Supply (TSCO)
Five-box test: ✓ Pays · ✓ Raises · ✓ Safe · ✓ Undervalued · ✓ Yield that matters
Welcome to the very first buy. Here's the idea in one breath: $100 a week, into a dividend stock that passes the five-box test, in a real account, shown openly — and we watch the income compound, week after week, for years.
We're starting with a company a lot of families already know: Tractor Supply (TSCO).
Why Tractor Supply
Tractor Supply sells the practical stuff — feed, fencing, tools, parts — to people who do things themselves: recreational farmers, ranchers, tradesmen, small businesses. When money gets tight and more people fix and grow their own, those are exactly the customers who show up. It's a durable, unglamorous business that keeps paying — and keeps raising — its dividend.
The five boxes
- Pays — yes, a long, uninterrupted record.
- Raises consistently — roughly fifteen straight years of increases.
- Safe — a payout ratio with comfortable room to keep raising.
- Undervalued — trading at a reasonable level relative to its own history.
- Yield that matters — enough to be real income, not a rounding error.
(Exact figures are verified on the day of each buy and recorded in the portfolio.)
This week's buy
This is pick #1 — the start of the streak. The numbers (shares, price, and the income it adds) post to the public portfolio with the buy.
Not financial advice. This is what we did and why. What you do is up to you.