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Home Depot (HD)

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Home Depot may not seem as exciting as crypto, but it’s the top holding at OUSA, accounting for 6.1% of the fund’s weight.

The home improvement retail giant has around 2,300 stores, with each one averaging approximately 105,000 square feet of indoor retail space, dwarfing many competitors.

And while other brick-and-mortar retailers have floundered during the pandemic, Home Depot grew its sales nearly 20% in fiscal 2020 to $132.1 billion. It even boosted its quarterly dividend by 10% earlier this year and now yields 1.6%.

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After rallying more than 55% year to date, Home Depot trades at over $400 per share. But you can always get a smaller piece of the company using a popular app that allows you to buy fractions of shares with as much money as you are willing to spend.

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Microsoft (MSFT)

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Tech stocks aren’t known for their dividends, but software gorilla Microsoft is an exception.

The company announced an 11% increase to its quarterly dividend to 62 cents per share in September. Over the past five years, its payout has grown by 59%.

So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Microsoft is the second-largest holding in O’Leary’s OUSA.

Business has been booming of late, partially driven by the pandemic-fueled demand for its cloud-computing and video-gaming offerings.

In the September quarter, Microsoft's revenue grew 22% year-over-year to $45.3 billion while adjusted earnings per share surged 25% to $2.27.

Year-to-date, Microsoft shares have returned an impressive 53%, easily topping other trillion-dollar tech giants like Apple (31%) and Amazon (11%).

Still, if you’re hesitant to go deep on tech stocks near all-time highs, you can always build a diversified portfolio automatically just by using your “spare change.”

Procter & Gamble (PG)

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Procter & Gamble belongs to a group of companies commonly known as the Dividend Kings: publicly traded businesses with at least 50 consecutive years of dividend increases.

In fact, P&G makes the list with ease. In April, the board of directors announced a 10% increase to the quarterly payout, marking the company’s 65th consecutive annual dividend hike.

It’s not hard to see why the company is able to maintain such a streak.

P&G is a consumer staples giant with a portfolio of trusted brands like Bounty paper towels, Crest toothpaste, Gillette razor blades and Tide detergent. These are products households buy on a regular basis, no matter how the economy or their personal finances are faring.

Thanks to the recession-resistant nature of P&G’s business, it can deliver reliable dividends through thick and thin.

Shares are up 10% year-to-date. That may not seem like much compared to Home Depot and Microsoft, but long-term investors can look back on many decades of strong performance.

The company offers an annual dividend yield of 2.3% and is currently the third-largest holding in OUSA with a weighting of 4.8%.

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Jing Pan Investment Reporter

Jing is an investment reporter for MoneyWise. He is an avid advocate of investing for passive income. Despite the ups and downs he’s been through with the markets, Jing believes that you can generate a steadily increasing income stream by investing in high quality companies.

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