Chapter 7 of 10
Building a portfolio
Spread your bets, set the prices you'd buy at, and let reinvested dividends compound.
Diversifying across companies, sectors and currencies softens the blow if any one payer stumbles. A watchlist with a target price per stock lets you wait for a fair entry instead of chasing — Quantic flags a stock on your radar when it trades below your target.
Reinvesting dividends (a DRIP) buys more shares automatically, which pay their own dividends — the compounding engine behind long-run dividend growth.
To find candidates, use the Screener — filter by yield, growth, increase streak, leverage and sector. Then put your finalists in Compare to weigh two to four side by side before adding the winners to your radar.
Key terms
- Target price
- The price you'd be happy to buy a watched stock at. Quantic flags it on your radar when the market trades below it.
- Underweight
- A holding that's a smaller slice of your portfolio than you intend — a candidate to top up toward your target mix.
- DRIP
- Dividend reinvestment: automatically using each dividend to buy more shares, compounding your income over time.
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