Automatic Data Processing: A Dividend Champion For The Dividend Yield

And the buying process goes on. Last Friday I bought 25 shares of the business services stock Automatic Data Processing (ADP). The purchase is the first one with a yield of less than 3%. As you might see, high quality stocks are becoming rare, especially when you look for high yielding growth picks with cheap fundamentals.

What Automatic Data Processing Makes

ADP provide business outsourcing solutions. The company operates in three segments: Employer Services, Professional Employer Organization (PEO) Services, and Dealer Services. The Employer Services segment offers a range of human resource (HR) information, payroll processing, time and labor management, and tax and benefits administration solutions and services, including traditional and Web-based outsourcing solutions

How Automatic Data Processing Affects The Dividend Yield Portfolio

The total purchase amount was $1,546.25 and will give me roughly $40 in additional annual dividends for my Dividend Yield Passive Income Portfolio (DYPI). The full income, estimated on a twelve-trailing months basis, amounts to $1,176.17.

The income results from 22 stock holdings, each worth around $1,000 – $2,000. The total purchase amount was $31,514.50. Now they have a market value of $33,298.70. The remaining cash of $68,656 is still available for white elephants.

I plan to hunt for real bargains, which are very rare for the time being. I also believe that I don’t have big bargains in the DYPI-Portfolio because of the market situation. We are in a time of monetary easing. As a result, financial assets like stocks, gold or even bonds have a solid to fair valuation. Maybe they are overvalued if we include all the downside risks from this dangerous quantitative federal policy. I cannot tell you how it will end but it should definitely have a consequence for the currency.

The DYPI-Portfolio was funded virtual with $100k on October 03, 2012 and made a return of 1.63% since the date of funding. The performance is so low compared to the market because of the huge cash amount and the slow purchase process (I invest each week only 1-2% of the cash). Roughly 68% of the fund is not invested.

I never thought that this strategy of buying a stock each week for 1-2% of its portfolio worth will lose performance if the market goes strong up but my thoughts with this asset vehicle are different.




I don’t like to show you how you can make fast money and get quick rich. I only like to show you how long-term dividend growth investing works.

Over the recent decade, I made a six-figure gross gain with stock trading, mainly with dividend stocks - Dividends were responsible for nearly one-third of my overall performance. Now, I live off dividends.

What you need is a long-investment horizon and patience with your philosophy. Values will not born overnight. They will be created over years and decades. And the biggest value creators are those stocks with a trustful and loyal management and a solid growing environment.

The market conditions are very important if you want to realize a return of 5% or 15%. In some industries, it is very hard to make money as a small player. I think about highly regulated industries like the telecom carriers or even utilities. If you invest your money in those stocks you can have the best skipper but if the sea is rough and windy, you have a tough fight for your return.

The Total Return Of The Dividend Yield Passive Income Portfolio

The stock holdings of the portfolio alone generated a return of 4.63%. That’s in line with the broad market gain especially when we consider the lower volatility and higher dividends.


What Current Yields Are Generated By The Portfolio?

The average yield of the portfolio is now 2.53% because of the small capital gain. The yield on cost, dividends calculated on purchase amounts, is 3.71%.

I believe that its possible to boost the dividend income to a total value of 3,000 – 4,000 by the end of the year 2013. With $68k in cash I must buy stocks around the 3% percent mark.

A Hard Fight For Stock Bargains With Good Dividend Yields

Good investments are getting rare. Last week I thought about a purchase of Coca Cola (KO) because of the high quality of the stock but I decided to buy General Electric (GE) because of the higher yield. This was a false choice.

One day, I must put KO shares into the portfolio - I hope for a better yield. ADP was the first buy with a yield of less than 3% dividend yield. But I hope all companies will increase their payments over the next twelve months. This would it make easier for me to realize the income aim.

Why Automatic Data Processing?

Automatic Data Processing is valuated with a P/E of 22.10 and pays a yield of 2.82%. The stock is a low beta stock (0.66 beta ratio) and has a solid, low cyclic and well diversified business model. 85% of the annual sales come from Americans nations and 12% from Europe. ADP is a Dividend Champion and hiked dividend payments over 38 consecutive years.


The low debt situation is interesting. As of Q2/2013, ADP had no significant long-term debt but $1.4 billion in cash. The market capitalization was $30 billion. With this in mind, the EV/EBITDA is at 11.7. Analysts predicting a growth in earnings for the next years close to the double-digit mark. For me this was the reason to pull the trigger.

Here is the portfolio overview from the income perspective: