Laboring Through My Long-Term Portfolio

Filed under: Microsoft (MSFT), General Electric (GE), Coca-Cola (KO), Walt Disney (DIS)

Even though it's Labor Day, I thought I'd do a little work and take a look at my current long-term portfolio to see which stock I respect the most. I wish I respected them all equally, but alas, I don't.

Take Disney (DIS). I've talked ad infinitum of my displeasure with this holding. I know, I know, I should just sell already. Not a bad idea, and I hope to do it one of these days. Guess it's that long-term discipline in me. When I first bought the shares back in 1998, I didn't want to hop in and out of them; I wanted to dollar-cost-average into them over time. Unfortunately, the decade-plus performance hasn't been too rewarding. Set the following chart to the ten-year mark; see what I mean? And dividend growth has been awful. No, this has not been a very respectable equity for me.

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