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Hey guys, welcome back to the channel. My name is Rob and I am coming to you from Japan today. As always, I'm not a financial adviser, so please do your own research and make your own decisions.
Uh, we retired from our jobs early about eight years ago and have been traveling the world. We get asked all the time, what is in our investment portfolio? So, I'm going to break down that for you today. Every single stock and ETF that we own.
Now, we did retire early about eight years ago, as I said, with about $300,000, which is not a lot uh in most people's minds. We have been focusing our travels on Southeast Asia. So, it has been just fine for us. Since then, however, we have been doing YouTube while we've been on the road, and that has brought us in a significant amount of money. So, we've been investing that as well, and that has now grown our investments to right around $500,000.
So we do have two portfolios that we have. Uh one is one that we just set with all our main ETFs like VO uh and QQQ and we are not touching that portfolio at all that has got our $300,000 in it. And then we have this other portfolio which I'm going to dive into today with all the individual stocks that we buy, we sell, uh if we're putting new money in is going into this portfolio. And I call this the retire quicker portfolio because this is not set to get dividends. This is set to grow quickly and take advantage of trends happening in the world today. So if you're looking for stocks to purchase, this is what we are actually purchasing each week. So I'm going to do this video tell you everything we have and then going forward from here. Uh if you want to know what we're going to be buying each week, each month, I'm going to be updating that on the channel as well.
So, uh, I would do want to say don't rush out and just buy every single one of these stocks that I mentioned. These are stocks that we have. Some of these we have purchased a year, a year and a half ago. They may not be a good purchase points right now. Some of these we have purchased just this last week. So, I will try to let you know when that is the case.
So, jumping right in, I'm going to bring up our uh entire portfolio. And you can see right here, uh, it won't all fit on one screen. There are 67 stocks and ETFs in this that we are going to go over. And, uh, it it's currently worth $185,76. and it has gone up $42,77 for a 29.9% increase which I think is really good because most of this has been purchased within the last 6 months. Uh now this has been few months ago April was a pretty good time to purchase things. So we did benefit from that somewhat but a lot of these most of these have done really well. I'll highlight the ones that have not done so well also so you'll just uh be aware of that. But I'm going to jump into Trading View here and just run down the list of stocks that we have.
The first one is going to be SMH and that is the Van Semiconductor ETF. Now, it does have 9.7% of our portfolio in it, and that's the biggest one because we do believe in semiconductors. That's going to be things like Nvidia, AMD, and all the other semiconductor makers out there. I did make a video about this purchase on the channel about two and a half months ago. It was sitting at about $249 at the time of purchase. It has gone up 20% in the last two and a half months. Uh, and so for that being our biggest position, we are pretty happy with that. As you can see, year-to- date is up 22%. Uh, and on the one year, it is up 33%.
Uh, the next two, we do have a few uh shares of VO and QQQ in this portfolio as well. So VO is just the S&P 500. I'm not going to go over that one. And QQQ is basically an ETF that has all the biggest tech names in it. So we don't need to talk about that one that much as well.
Next one of interest is going to be XLU. This is the Spider Select uh Fund Utilities. I love this one because it's pretty stable. It does actually pay a dividend and it has gone up quite a bit. We've been buying this one all year. Uh on the year, it is up 13.17% year to date, which is incredible for it being a utility sector. Uh we've had this long-h held belief that utilities were going to go up because energy needs are going to increase with AI coming on and all the data centers being built. So this is one I did a video on this one several months ago on this channel as well. Uh telling you that I was buying this one. It has done really well for us. Uh like I said, we've made about 13% on that one plus the dividends that have come in.
Uh, next one in our portfolio is going to be Coinbase. Coinbase is one that we have bought a little more recently. We held it in the past, sold it, and now we have purchased it back again. Uh it does currently make up 3.65% of this portfolio. Uh 21 shares totaling $6,775. Now, I do think Coinbase is in a good position to purchase uh anything around this $300 level because there's a lot of things that are going uh in Coinbase's direction. They've acquired Darabit. They there's Tailwinds with Ethereum. There's stable coins coming. They of course make money on every trade uh in their space. And then also uh they do have a relationship with Circle which is the hottest IPO out there right now where Circle's really gone up a lot because of the stable coins but Coinbase uh gets a percentage of that right now for the next few years. So Coinbase is one that that we do believe in and it's a good it's a good way to uh profit from the revolution going on in finance.
Next I'm going to talk about is Iron and Iron is known as a a Bitcoin miner but basically it is also a power company. Now year to date uh it has been doing pretty well 72% up on year to date 38% in the last 6 months. We have not been in it that long. We got into it uh just several months ago. So we are not up 38% on this one. We are up more like 15 to 20% on iron, but it is one that we have uh have put a pretty big bet on because we do believe in the power play that is going to be coming on from iron.
Next up is MSTR. That is strategy. I won't get into that one too much. Most people know what that one is. They are a treasury company uh for Bitcoin and that is just what they do. So if you believe in that, you can buy that one. Same thing with BMNR. It's the same thing but with Ethereum.
Now, this one is we have been in this very recently. Actually, all of our shares in this company I bought last week and it's kind of crazy because within the last week, you can see it is now one of our top 10 positions. Uh I bought right around $4,000 worth and as of right now, it's pretty much gone up about $1,000 in a week. So, that was pretty good. uh and we were happy with that. And we these are all stocks that we are holding hoping to hold long term for the next uh five years. But with anything, these can change. If we change our mind, we sell them. We get new information, we will sell it. So this one we're hoping can be a long-term hold.
Uh, and then the next one is going to be Cipher Cifr. It is basically the same as IN being traded uh for the energy play.
Next up, we have XSD, which is another ETF. It is a semiconductor ETF similar to SMH. The only difference is is that with this one, XSD, it is a equal weight semiconductor ETF. And so what that means is the SMH ETF, it's going to be heavily weighted towards Nvidia and AMD because they are the biggest semiconductor companies. But this one basically weights each company the same. So like 3% for Nvidia, 3% for AMD, 3% for all the other smaller companies. So if the smaller companies do better, this one will do better. You can see it has not done as well as SMH. Uh and that that's to be expected, but it does give you some diversity in the semiconductor space if you pair it with SMH, which is what we've done still pretty good on the year. 30 uh 31% on the year and yearto date almost 12%.
Next up we have VF which is the Vanguard Financials ETF and this is one that just is heavily into banks, credit cards. It's got some Birkshshire Hathaway in it and this is one that we we've we just hold because we think it diversifies our portfolio some and we do need that. And so on one year it's up 24%, year-to- date up 8.6%. And so as you can see our our top 10 holdings here heavily have quite a few ETFs and then some treasury companies.
And now we're going to get into actually a lot of individual stocks that we've been buying. A lot of these I've bought pretty recently. A lot of them I bought about a month and a half ago when uh I made a video on the channel talking about a bunch of tech stocks I was going to buy. This first one falls into that and it is GE Verona. I bought this back in June. Uh you can go check that video out. And basically in the one month since I've bought it, it is up 22%. So that was a good one. Uh, and that's just something that we we've been very happy with. We did pay $479 per share. It makes up 2% of this portfolio. And as of right now, the stock is up to $657 per share. So, uh, if you don't know what they do, they make equipment that is going to be used in industrials. And uh just reading some of their quotes from their earnings call recently, this is one you could still get behind. They say, "We continue to see strong demand across our businesses with equipment orders up 16% and service orders up 18% year-over-year, driving a record services backlog of $73 billion." That that sounds like a company that I want to be invested in. And so we are invested in them.
Uh, next up after that, same kind of story but it's Caterpillar. They are going to benefit from this rebuilding and data center buildout that is happening in the next two to three years. Caterpillar we bought recently and let's see what we paid. We paid $379. Uh bought this just within the last month and now that stock is at $412. Year-to date, it's up 12%. So, we have captured most of that actually. Uh, so that's pretty good. And Caterpillar, again, another one with really strong demand. Some of the quotes from their latest earnings call. We continue to see strong demand and cross our end markets with dealer inventories at appropriate levels and a robust order backlog, particularly in construction and energy and transportation. That's the theme. That's the theme of this portfolio. uh all these companies are saying they see a huge backlog of orders in construction, energy and transportation. The reason again uh AI data centers being built, industrial uh units being built, all these companies are going to benefit. So, if you want to play AI and and the energy thing, you don't have to just buy Nvidia, which, you know, we do have some Nvidia, quite a bit of Nvidia, but these are the companies that are going to be building the buildings that the Nvidia chips go in. So, that's also a good thing uh to be invested in.
Next up, we've got Chevron. And Chevron is just an energy play for us, a little bit different one. They're a major energy company. Of course, we all know what Chevron does. Chevron is 2% of our portfolio. Uh we have bought this at $146 and it's gone up a little bit, not that much. Uh you know, it's actually a pretty good gain though for how long we've held it.
Uh, next stock is NBIS, Nebius Group, and this is 1.9% of our portfolio, 47 shares. We have paid $63 for this for these shares. We did buy quite a few a couple months ago and then we basically doubled down just this week and bought more. So, this uh average cost was lower and then I just bought more this week and I think there's still quite a bit of room for this one to go. Uh so, not something that I'm afraid of purchasing right now. Uh, it has shot up to $75. Actually, just yesterday it went up 7.25%. So, it has been a pretty big winner for us so far.
Next one I'm going to deal with here is Tesla. And Tesla, you know, they're a very difficult company to understand. I think a lot of people misunderstand them as a car company. They are not really a car company. I ignore anything said about their cars, their car business. They are a battery company and a humanoid robot company and an AI company. That is where they're going to make their money in the next 5 years. Uh robo taxis, that's also good for them. But actually just selling cars to consumers, that's not really of concern to me at all. And so when people read headlines like uh Tesla car sales are down and the stock drops, that's a buying point for me because they are not really a car company 5 years from now. Uh they will still be making cars, but it'll be for the robo taxi business for their humanoids and their batteries. That's where they're going to be making a lot of their money in my mind.
Uh, next one we've got is uh MCOR group and MCOR has been super solid uh in a month 15% gain. Last 6 months 44% gain. Year-to date 38%. These are incredible numbers. Uh just there's no there's no doubting these numbers. And why Mor Group? Why are they going up like this company that you've likely never heard of? They build data centers. Uh that's the theme here. They build data centers. They are being they have such a huge backlog of data centers they need to build. They can charge whatever they want to.
Utes is the next stock that we have and this is a utility ETF. Uh, and it is one that is managed. Uh, and it has done really really well. They they really do keep on top of this one. It has done a little bit better than our other utility ETF. You can see year-to- date this is utility ETF and it is up 27.39%. So, we have done well in you.
Uh, next stock I've got here is Google. Don't really need to say much about Google. I'm pretty sure everybody knows what Google is. It's done okay. Uh, it's not done as well as some of the other ones that we have, but we have held Google for quite a while. Uh, so it's not something we're going to get rid of anytime soon.
Next one I'll talk about is the uh First Trust Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure ETF. Now, this is an in an ETF that is all about building out the infrastructure grid of America. And if you've been listening to what I've been saying so far in this video, that is one of the major themes of the country right now. that is where money is being invested. Uh when you hear things like Apple or Nvidia is going to make a $500 billion investment into bringing uh business back to the United States. These are the companies in this ETF that that money is going to to help them build out these massive data centers and buildings that they need to run these things. So these are the companies that are going to benefit. Uh this is a whole ETF full of them. Uh, and so for an ETF to be up 20% year to date, 27% for the year, that's pretty good. Uh, we don't have a huge position in this one yet. I'm going to get back to our positions. We're all the way down here into this third row over here now. 1.64%. This is one though, it's $3,000 of the portfolio. Uh, it's a pretty uh it's a pretty good investment just to put a little bit in every month. every couple months I'll buy another share. Just keep building this one up over time.
Same as the one that's next to it or below it on our list, which is Zap. And that is the Global X Electrification ETF. There are some utilities in there also some other plays, but it's another one. I just try to add a couple shares every month to it and uh and just build it up that way slowly. Dollar cost averaging into Zap and Grid.
We've got Parker Hannneathan here. They're also a company much like some of these other industrials that are benefiting uh from this buildout. So, it it makes up we've got about $3,000 in there for shares, $714. Uh, and let's see what it's at today. That was our average cost. It is up to $752. It's been a pretty good grower. 10% over the six last six months, 17% year to date.
Then we have Shield, which is the Global X Funds Global Defense Tech ETF. Now, Shield is interesting because I I think a lot of people right now who are worried about investing are worried about a recession. You hear a lot about recession. I don't really believe we're going into a recession, but a lot of people do. A lot of people are feeling uh that pinch at the store. Of course, we're in Japan, so we don't feel it. Everything feels cheap to us. We've been in Southeast Asia. Uh our money really does go a long way over here with the US dollar exchange rate where it currently is. But people at home in America, we do understand the restaurant prices are higher, grocery prices are higher, and so people are cutting back on a lot of expenditures. People might be cutting back on going to a Starbucks or going out to Outback Steakhouse, things like that. Those are the first things that people cut. Going to the movies, going out to eat, getting an expensive coffee. What are the things that are never going to be cut? That's the focus of this, but that have good potential growth. What's not going to be cut? Uh what's not going to be cut is the defense budget of the United States, and that is where this money goes. and global X funds, global X defense. It's also got defense uh income from other countries around the world. So, this is just a steady grower and it's like if you if you're worried about a recession, this is the kind of stock you want to look at because uh even in a recession, the countries, nation, states are going to keep investing in defense. And so, year to date, yeah, 65.09% 09% one year 73% all-time 151% uh gain. So this is another one we buy a share or two every month and we just try to keep putting a little bit of money into that.
Now we come to Shopify which is an online uh sales uh platform and it's done really well over this year. We don't have uh a ton of it actually. We we've got 19 shares, 1.53%, but it's a good amount. Uh, we bought all of this basically uh in June uh for $107 and now that is up to $149. So in about two months time uh it's gone up in the last month it's gone up 30%. So uh that was an incredible time to buy. Uh again, if you look at that video I made, I detailed all the stocks I was buying a about about a month and a half ago when we were in Vietnam. I bought all these and those have made an incredible gain so far.
Next one is a hot stock, Palunteer. Everybody's talking about Palunteer because it is uh actually in that defense fund that I just talked about, Shield, too. But people love Palunteer because of this performance. It's just incredible. last month 31% last six months 59% year-to date 145%. Now, we did own Palunteer. We bought it at actually at $20 uh last year, and when it got up to about $100, we sold it because we said, "Well, it's gone up so high, we we just, you know, we want to take some profits here." And then when it got up to about $135, I was doing a lot of research on I thought this still has room to go. So, we actually bought back into it. I think we bought it at $135 and uh it was Yeah, let's look here. 15 shares at $13511 and since then it has gone from $135 to $186. And yeah, it's just a winner. Uh there's there's no doubt about it. Palanteer's gone up. Probably will keep going up. So, we're not getting rid of that. I'm not necessarily buying more of it, but we're but we're definitely going to keep it.
Got Micron Technology. Micron Technology makes memory. And you might be wondering, you know, why why is memory a good investment, not really for computers, for robots. So, anything that that Tesla makes or these companies make with the humanoid robots that are coming, robots going into factories, they all need memory to run. Anything that's going to have AI in it needs memory, tons of memory. Micron makes the memory. And so they're going to see uh if you believe that the AI surge is going to continue, then Micron is going to benefit. Uh you can see year-to date up 50%. We did not buy it at the beginning of the year, though. We've only been in it for a little bit here. Uh, and so we're sitting less than 10% uh benefit from this one. So, I wish we'd gotten into it earlier. We didn't take the plunge in time, but I think it's still a good stock to be in.
Uh, now we're going to get to Melly, which is Marcato Libre. They are, think of them as like an Amazon type company that services uh, South America. And they had a good day yesterday, up $58, 2.56%. But this is going to be one of the first stocks. I think it is the first one that I'm going to that we've bought that we were actually down on since we bought it. So, we paid $2,422 uh about a month and a half ago for it and it's at $2350. So, we're down, you know, about $100, something like that. So, uh, it's I still believe in it, though. I still think it'll come back. you can't really judge the price that quickly, but it's it's crazy with all these stocks that we've bought that that's really the first one that we've that we're that we're down on.
Uh, Oracle is up next and they are again heavily involved in cloud computing and they are providing those services for companies all over the world. So, they've done really well. Not so well the last 5 days, but for the last month and the last 6 months, they have done really well. Oracle makes up 1.23%.
Uh, then we're going to get into AMD and Exon Mobile. Most of these companies in this range are about 1% of our portfolio. But I do want to point out that Oracle, AMD, and Nvidia are heavily weighted over here in this SMH, VO, and QQQ. So while we only have 1.08% of our portfolio in actual Nvidia stock, it makes up 10% of this SMH uh ETF. So that's we've got $18,000 in SMH. That's another $1,800 worth of Nvidia. So that's another 1%. Then we it also makes up a large portion of VO and QQQ. So actually our total Nvidia waiting is more like 3 to four uh% than 1% which really vaults it way up here to one of our top holdings if you broke them out individually. that you have to keep track of that a little bit if you are investing both in ETFs and stocks so that you don't get overweight one particular thing. So I'm happy with our waiting on Nvidia, AMD and Oracle because they're ones that we just we don't want to get too overweight but we also want to have exposure to them.
Woof is another minor just like iron and cipher. So we won't go into that one too much.
Grny, this is an interesting one. Uh, I like this one. This is called the Granny Shots ETF and it's a large cap ETF. Uh, done by Funstrat. Uh, Tom Lee runs Funst Strat and he is pretty active on X if you follow him on there. Very interesting, very smart guy. And this ETF has done phenomenal since since its inception and it's just a well-run ETF and so we decided we're going to get in it uh because we I do like it and uh it has done so well. Let me show you the performance uh for an ETF. 1 month 5% 6 months 14% year-to- date 19.04%. So, for an an ETF of large cap stocks that's beating the S&P 500, that's that's pretty good.
Uh, now we're going to come to the first stock we've actually sold this year. We again don't try to uh buy stocks to to trade them quickly. We buy them to try to hold for 5 years, 10 years, however long. But when things change, we get new information or it goes up a lot and we want to rebalance, we will sell something. So, we did buy App 11 again. We bought it uh when we were in Vietnam about a month and a half ago and it's just had a crazy run here. So, Apploven, we bought it over here, you can see $322 per share. And now, if we look at AppLin, it is up to $467. And yeah, that that was pretty quick. So, the other thing is I'm not totally convinced in AppLoving anymore. So, I wanted to take some profits. I'm still doing some research and if I'm going to sell the rest of it, but basically I'm a little concerned that AI is going to uh make a lot of apps obsolete in the next couple years and that that could really hurt AppL's business. So, I wanted to lock in some profits. We did that. I may sell the rest of it in the next couple of months. Uh, but if I do, I'll let you know in another video.
Uh, next we've got Service Now, which is at $853. And, uh, I I think Service Now is probably one of the ones that we've taken the biggest loss on. We paid $975. Of course, we only bought two shares, so it's not really much of a loss uh compared to all these things. That's what you need is like all of our top holdings have been huge wins. We have a couple of losses back in the uh back half of this portfolio, but that really doesn't matter if you're overall doing very very well. So, Service Now, not going to get rid of it yet. Uh I still believe they could do something good. So, we're going to hold on to it, but that makes up less than 1%.
Then, we've got Bloom Energy Corporation. the this is again a co company that that supplies power to data centers and we bought this about a month ago and it's done phenomenally well in a month. So if we look at Bloom Energy uh they're up to $41. I think we paid $26. Uh in one month it's up 60.32%. And so uh you know these are the things that if you pay attention to what is happening what is what is being built and then try to figure out who's going to benefit from what's going to be done in the next uh little while you'll see these go up and if you can figure that out before other people do and invest in it you'll see these kinds of returns. So, Bloom Energy, one month, 60%, 6 months, 71% year-to date. Uh, incredible run for Bloom Energy. I do wish we' bought more. We just bought $1,000 of it, which is when we get an idea for this portfolio, I generally just put $1,000 into it and get whatever stock I can for $1,000. And then uh as as the idea kind of coaleses and I see that it's going the direction that I thought it was going to go, I'll generally buy more. Problem with Bloom Energy was I got the idea and then like within 5 days to a week it had gone up. So I didn't get a chance to get more of it. Next time uh I will try to buy a little bit more uh right off the bat.
But next two are going to be Microsoft and Amazon. I won't get into those too much just because uh everybody knows what they do, knows if they want to invest in them. And then we have XLI, which is the industrial spider select fund. That's just an ETF filled with industrial companies. It's a good diversification uh tool. I'd like to get some more of that eventually, but that a lot of the companies that we own are actually in this one. So, um, that's one that we haven't put a ton into, but we may buy more in the future.
Next company we have is MP Materials Corporation. And this is one that's been in the news a lot lately because they are uh going to be doing minerals uh a rare earth uh minerals in the United States. If you haven't heard the news about rare earth minerals, most of them are refined in China. We need rare earth minerals to make just about everything that we make. So there has been a big push to uh make this company uh just ramp them up. And there's been investment from Apple actually investment from the US government in the company. And once those things happened that just shot the price of this up like crazy. Uh so you can see in six months this company's up 207%. Uh, it's crazy. Year-to- date, 372%. In one year, this company is up 566%. Keyax, the defense department has agreed to invest 400 million in MP Materials Corporation with an additional 350 million commitment and a 150 million loan for a new magnet facility and expanded mining. So, uh, I did not get into MP as quickly as I should have, but I did get in. And that's really what you have to have to do. Uh, you won't catch everything at the exact opportune time, but when you see something, jump in. And that's uh something that that it's it's interesting right now because we're at a time in history where the world is changing, AI is changing. Uh there is a race to to get the best AI and it's causing a lot of things to change as to what's going to lead the market. Things like this are leading the markets higher. uh you know it's been Nvidia for the last few years and I think that will continue but these things are also playing a bigger part than they have in the past.
So we've got ASML pretty small portion of our portfolio ASML. Uh now we're we're going to move over here to this slide. We are down to only8%. These are about $1,400 positions. ASML, ARM, BTQQF and Freeport, McMahon, Copper and Gold. So BTQQF uh is quantum computing, ARM is computing uh and ASML is also within the SMH semiconductor ETF. So we don't have a ton of that one. I do want to highlight though FCX uh Freeport uh copper and gold because there is copper is also needed for a lot of things happening right now and Freeport is one of the biggest miners. Now this is one we bought this at $45 and uh it is one that we have not uh made any money on yet but we haven't had it very long just about a month. So, $42. It's down a little bit. Yeah. So, last month it's down 8%, but for the year it's up 10%. I expect it'll bounce back at some point here.
Uh, then we've got gold, Spider Gold Trust. Gold is just a diversification for us. Uh, we just do have a little bit in gold. We'll probably buy more at some point, but we're not too concerned about buying gold heavily.
Going to go through some of these next ones a little bit quicker. Netflix, everybody knows what Netflix is. Uh Fly Firefly Aerospace. Now they are uh one of the companies that's helping put reactors uh up into space. And they are basically like, think of them, if you want to think of them like SpaceX, you could do that. SpaceX you can't really invest in. I'm going to tell you in a minute how you can invest in SpaceX, but they're not really investable as as a as they are a private company, but Firefly Aerospace is one that that we have invested in here. Um, now they have not done well uh over the last all time. It's it's it's an IPO that's really only been out for uh a few days. So, what happened was like last week it came out as an IPO. It shot up. Uh, we let it die down. I think I bought Firefly at about 50 right right about where it is right now. $51 or so. So, uh, we're basically even. It's only been out for a week, though. So, if you want to get in something uh new, that's something kind of like SpaceX. It's It's a little more volatile of a name. So, you know, we didn't invest a ton into this. We, uh, we just put a little bit. So, uh, let's see where it is on this, uh, chart. Uh, yeah, fly right here. We have $1,100 into it. We actually paid $50.39 since, you know, it's up a dollar, but that's pretty meaningless at this point.
Uh, Rocket Companies does deal with mortgages, things like that. Uh, Naka is another treasury company. for solar is power uh and hut is a mining company. So uh those all still do have that theme same theme.
Vertive Holdings, they are a company that does help with the buildout of data centers as well. Uh, then we've got Broadcom. We've got Nukes, which is an ETF where you can get a ton of different nuclear power companies. Uh, one of the things that's difficult about nuclear power is there's so many companies and it's very difficult to know which ones are going to be the winners long term. So, uh, instead of trying to pick one, we've just said we're going to invest in this ETF which owns most of them and if the whole industry is a winner, then this ETF will be a winner instead of trying to buy up every company or or pick them. But yeah, in the last month it's up 10%, 6 months it's up 20%. Year to date it is up 48% which is pretty good for an ETF.
Cumins, most people know them for making engines, but they also provide industrial equipment and that's just a company that we've owned on and off over the years and uh have done really well with. I think I just bought these last week actually. Uh, so that's a very recent purchase for us. Uh, Cumins and let's see where they fall on here. Yeah, th those were those were just purchased last week. $390 and they're at $399, but that's again pretty meaningless because we've only had them for a week.
Uh, then we've got Meta. We only have one share of Meta and it just makes up a small part. these these companies here at the bottom of the portfolio uh they they make up a very insignificant part of the portfolio. Qualcomm incorporated. PPA is another aerospace and defense ETF. Uh, you know it's it's kind of basically the same thing as Shield. VIG is a dividend growth uh ETF put out by Vanguard. BRR is a uh treasury company. XOVR is an ETF uh that does deal in a lot of companies or or a couple of companies that you can't get by yourself. So XVR is one of the only ways that you can actually invest in SpaceX. They do hold that in that ETF. And so that's an interesting uh interesting play if you want to get a little bit of space X exposure. C is a Treasury company. Uh SECO is a copper company. Again, just like Freeport. Uh Zetta. These now make up a basically completely insignificant part of the portfolio. Let's see how much these actually have. Yeah. Uh 20 shares totaling $370.2. two. These are less than 02%.
Uh, open SCHD. We just we did used to have quite a bit of SCD. I think I sold it all, but I there was eight shares hanging in one account that I missed. So, we still do have eight shares of SCHD. And then MetaPlanet, we have 10 shares of just for the fun of it worth $71. So that is our entire portfolio.
I would say you know anything that's over uh 1% is something that is a is a more of a core holding for us. A lot of these back here in the end in the back end are just ones that we we just have because we're we're taking a little bit of a flyer on them. But this is a a volatile portfolio. It's not one that's always guaranteed to just go up steady Eddie, but it is one that is probably going to go up more than just uh some some very basic ETFs like CHD will do. Those are for safety. Those are for dividends. But with the YouTube income that we currently have and our life situation, we just decided uh this year that that's not really what we want to be doing because we have a lot of time until we're going to be needing this money. So, we might as well let it grow. And we saw a lot of opportunities to let it grow. And we do have that kind of safety in our other portfolio in the in the VO QQQ uh portfolio. Uh that's more of our S&P. Just let it grow, set it, forget it, don't touch it. This portfolio was the one where we are trying to find out companies that are going to be doing well, get in on them, and make some profit quite honestly. And it has gone pretty well so far.
So, uh, I hope this has been helpful to you. Again, I don't want you to run out and just buy all these companies, but a lot of people are always asking, "What are the companies?" I'd like to know, let me know in the comments if there were any companies in here that you hadn't heard of or any that you thought were interesting. Now that you've heard what they are and what they do, things that you may put on your watch list, uh, let me know in the comments. Let me know if you got some other companies that uh that that I should be looking into because I'm always looking to learn and learn from people and get new companies to put on our watch list.
So, uh, that's our entire portfolio. Uh, we will be doing videos in the future that show you what we are buying and selling each week. I tried to highlight a few of those that I've bought this week in this video, but going forward, we will be doing that. Hopefully, we'll get some live streams going too in the future on this channel. Uh, but guys, I'd love to hear from you in the comments. Let me know what you think. Uh, if you like the video, please give it a like if it was helpful to you. If you're retiring and trying to figure out what to do, you want to make a little bit more money, you're not quite uh there where you just want to live off your dividends like we are, uh again, if you're trying to live off your dividends, this portfolio is not the one for you because it's not going to be as safe. It's not going to provide really much income at all, but it is probably going to grow faster than the dividend portion of our portfolio. So that's why I wanted to highlight it for people uh that are in the same situation that we are.
All right, that's going to do it. Uh, I will see you next time. Thanks for watching.