Summary of Recent Buys - Week of July 26

My summary of buys around the blogging community for the week of July 26, 2015.

This week there was a total of 22 buys from 17 different bloggers. A relatively light week compared with last week, but some very popular names on this list, as to be expected.

CVX was the hot stock this week with 4 bloggers posting buys. In the past 3 months, this and other oil stocks, have been on a steady decline. This isn't a completely new situation so investors are probably banking on the fact that these stocks will recover.

MMM, IBM, and EMR were close behind with 3 buys. All 3 are off their recent highs which is enticing prospective buyers.

Here is the summary of stocks and how many buys this week:

CVX	4
MMM	3
IBM	3
EMR	3
BBL	2
CAT	2
TD	2
VZ	2
BP	2
CM	2
TJX	2
KMI	1
ITC	1
DIS	1
QCOM	1
WMT	1
DOW	1
SE	1
WEN	1
PNRA	1
CMI	1
UNP	1

Sector Information:

For the Sector information, I use FinViz.com when possible as it is easy to find a consistent sector list. Here are the Sector codes I use in the chart (# is the number of each stock purchased in that sector):

ID		#
1	Basic Materials	6
2	Conglomerates	0
3	Consumer Goods	0
4	Financials	2
5	Healthcare	0
6	Industrial Goods	4
7	Services	6
8	Technology	3
9	Utilities	1
	TOTAL	22

The hot sectors this week were Basic Materials and Financials. Same story last week as well as these sectors continue to present value. Overall though it was a nice spread throughout the sectors.

 And the Pie Chart showing the popular sectors:

Here is the overall data map:

Week of July 26	MMM	KMI	ITC	DIS	QCOM	BBL	CVX	WMT	DOW	SE	CAT	WEN	PNRA	TD	CMI	UNP	VZ	IBM	EMR	BP	CM	TJX
Sector	6	1	9	7	8	1	1	7	1	1	6	7	7	4	6	7	8	8	6	1	4	7
A Christian Investor
A Frugal Family's Journey	3													10
Accumulating Assets						8	3				3									7
American Dividend Dream
Average Dividend Yield
Captain Dividend
Cash Cow Couple
Create My Independence
Dennis Mccain
Div Kid
Div4Son
DivGro					38
DivHut
Dividend Beginner
Dividend Developer							10															9
Dividend Diplomats									21									3
Dividend Engineering
Dividend for Starters		19
Dividend Growth Investor
Dividend Growth Journey						3	1	1
Dividend Hawk
Dividend Hustler																					15
Dividend Lord
Dividend Mantra			30																20
Dividend Odyssey
Dividend Swan				1
Dividend Quest
I Want To Retire Soon											14
FabSavings														8			9	8	11
FI Monkey
FInancial Freedom
Get Financially Integrated!
Hello Suckers ...
Live Off My Dividends
My Dividend Growth
My Dividend Pipeline							3									3
My Money Design
My Road to Wealth and Freedom
Passive Income Mavericks
Passive Income Pursuit	7
Redeemed Finance												22	1
Retire Before Dad	10														10
retireby40.org
Roadmap2Retire
WriteYourOwnReality
ZerotoZeros										16
# of Bloggers Buying	3	1	1	1	1	2	4	1	1	1	2	1	1	2	1	1	2	3	3	2	2	2

Which of these stocks are you looking to buy next week? Any surprises in this list?


I cross referenced my data with A Frugal Family's Journey's page about Collection of Recent Buys. They provide a link to the individual posts as well as the amount invested. I  stuck with shares purchased this week but I may start to include the amount invested in future posts.