PEP
PepsiCo, Inc.
stock NASDAQ

My best performers are AFL 287% since 2020 - PM 220% - KO 204% - JNJ 170% - MO 135% - ABBV - 121%. I also own MSFT up 44% (originally bought at $110 in 2018, but doubled my position this year and brought up my cost basis quite a bit. AMZN, ADP, PEP and VZ are others I own. I like most of my holdings and will probably keep them all another 10-15 years except VZ - I'm selling calls against my shares hoping to get them called away. Then I'll reallocate that capital into something with much better dividend growth.
But choosing 3 FOREVER holds - probably AFL, JNJ and PM.

They're Schwab's portfolio margin risk metrics. EPR (expected price range) is the *theoretical* maximum amount a security could move up or down in a single day. PNR (point of no return) is the percentage move an underlying would have to make before the entire brokerage account goes to zero. Basically the more contracts you pile on, the more leveraged the position becomes and the PNR gets lower and lower since it would take a smaller move in the stock to wipe you out. So if the stock has an EPR of 25% (the lowest value Schwab gives to individual stocks), I'm going to make sure my PNR doesn't get below 75% (3x of 25%). This is where the share price comes in since a stock trading at $500 carries a lot more notional risk (when levered up with options) than a stock trading at $50, etc.
I target a range of stocks that meet my risk requirements, everything listed above, but basically they're all more or less equally (un)likely to move 30% within 2 weeks. I filter it by earnings so stocks come and go from the list as they move through earnings reports.
Here's what I traded the last weekly and the last monthly expirations. There's a few that are greater than $350/share and those were mostly 0dte.
BA, BROS, BURL, CHTR, COF, CVX, DE, DHR, DLR, DLTR, FIS, GDDY, HD, HON, HSY, IBM, JNJ, KMB, LOW, MCD, MMM, PEP, PGR, PM, SPGI, TXRH, UNP, UPS, WDAY
  ADI, AEE, AEP, AER, AFL, AGCO, ALLE, ALSN, AME, AMT, APD, ATO, ATR, AWK, BCPC, BR, CBOE, CBRE, CHRW, CNI, DE, DOV, DPZ, DTE, DUK, ECL, ED, EFX, ESS, ETN, EXR, FLS, FRT, FSS, GPC, GRMN, IEX, IFF, ISRG, ITT, ITW, J, JCI, JLL, JNJ, LDOS, MA, MAA, MCD, MHK, MIDD, MLI, NSC, OC, OPEN, ORLY, PCAR, PEG, PKG, PNC, PNW, PSA, RPM, RSG, SPG, SPGI, SSNC, SUI, SWK, TMO, TRI, UNP, VRSK, WAB, WCN, WEC, WM, WMS, XYL, YUM

After a long time, it's actually above 10%. My living costs were 2758 EUR for June 2026, and I think I can go even lower. I'm planning some investments around the house, but probably not in the following few months. So it's a good time to build reserves before that.
My dividends were 395 EUR, but mostly from the annual payer XTB.WA. I'm 36 years old, my market loss in June was -6.28% (it's fine, it was +12% in May).
To disclose my portfolios, here are my positions:
Growth: (9868.HK,ADBE,ADYEN.AS,ALGN,ALSTI.PA,AMZN,BABA,BIDU,BYDDY,BYND,CDR.WA,CELH,CROX,CRSP,CRSR,CRWD,DDOG,DUOL,ENPH,FB,FSLY,FTCV,GOOG,GOOGL,GRE.MC,HIMS,HUYA,IBKR,ILMN,INPST.AS,INT.ST,KER.WA,LMND,META,MQ,NET,NFLX,NIO,NOW,OKTA,ONDO.L,OTGLY,PLTR,PLUG,PYPL,QLYS,SEDG,SMR,SPIR,SPOT,TDOC,TSLA,TTCF,TTD,U,UBER,UPST,VFF,VYGVF,WISE.L,XPEV,ZNGA)
Dividend portfolio: (AAPL,ABBV,ADM,AFSI,ALLY,ASML.AS,B4B.DE,BA,BAC,BBWI,BKNG,BMY,BNS,BNS.TO,BTI,CAH,CL,CMI,COST,CP.TO,CRM,CTL,CVS,D,DAL,DG,DIN,DIS,EIX,EOAN.DE,EV,EVO.ST,F,FDS,FF,FL,FLO,GEO,GILD,GIS,GPC,HBH.DE,HRL,IBM,IIPR,INTC,ITW,JNJ,JPM,KHC,KMB,KMI,KO,KR,LB,LUMN,M,MA,MMM,MO,MPW,MS,MSFT,NEE,NHI,NKE,NOW,O,OHI,ONL,PEP,PG,PM,POOL,QCOM,SBUX,SKT,SO,SPG,STOR,STX,T,TGT,TSM,UNP,UPS,V,VER.VI,VFC,VZ,WBA,WBD,WEC,XEL,XTB.WA)
**What portion of your expenses would be covered by dividends? Include Age pls :)**

PEP

If you are buying quality dividend stocks, why do you need to keep up with them every day (let alone every hour)?
We are retired early and living off the dividends from our taxable account. Here are my Current Holdings:
**Retirement account:**

Growth: QQQM SCHG SCHW
Dividend Growth: SCHD UNH
Income: JEPI JEPQ UTG ARES
International Income: IDVO LVHI
**Taxable account:**
Because we are recently retired early, the portfolio is in the process of migrating from Dividend Growth to Dividend Income.
Growth: GOOGL AMZN AAPL NVDA V
Dividend Growth: HD LOW PEP PG CVX AMP BX FITB JPM PRU STT AMGN JNJ CAT CMI LMT UNP AVGO MSFT QCOM ATO CPK ES EVRG NEE WEC
Dividend Income: VZ BKE EPD HESM MPLX AB AFG O EOI EOS GPIX GPIQ IYRI QQQH QQQI SPYH SPYI
I have CNBC on in the background when I drink my coffee in the morning.
I update any transactions that happened in the last 24 hours when I check my email in the morning. This usually takes five minutes.
Once a month, I check medium term outlook for each stock on fast graphs. This may take 15 minutes.
Once a quarter I do a deep dive into every stock that I own in the stocks on my watchlist. I allocate an entire day for this, but it usually only takes four or five hours.