{"id":6739,"date":"2019-12-20T12:13:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T17:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?p=6739"},"modified":"2020-07-16T00:01:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T04:01:49","slug":"bought-500-shares-of-occidental-petroleum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?p=6739","title":{"rendered":"Bought 500 Shares of Occidental Petroleum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought 500 shares of Occidental Petroleum (OXY) which is going to start a new portfolio in Wealth Builder.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned in a few post that I want to start a 4th portfolio which will be part Wealth Builder. This new portfolio will hold great stock that are very good dividend plays. I\u2019ll have the new portfolio in the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?page_id=6086\">Wealth Builder Portfolios<\/a><\/span> before the end of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Today I bought 500 shares of Occidental Petroleum (OXY) which will be the first position to enter the new portfolio. I paid $38.95 per share and this stock pays a dividend of $8.1% at my buy-in price.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Buy 500 Shares OXY @ $38.95<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>This will be a long term hold and the dividends will be reinvested to build more shares.<\/p>\n<p>Most investors, me included, admire Warren Buffett. He is know as the best investor of all time. Buffett just made a huge investment in OXY. He feels this stock will be a great energy play for the long term. When I was doing my investigation into OXY I came up with articles on Buffett\u2019s purchase.<\/p>\n<p><em>Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Monday Berkshire Hathaway\u2019s $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum is a bet on oil prices over the long term. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Buffett made this huge investment in Occidental so they can acquire Anadarko Petroleum. Below is from another article.<\/p>\n<p><em>Occidental agreed earlier this year to buy Anadarko for $38 billion, a deal which includes $10 billion in financing from Buffett\u2019s Berkshire Hathaway.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can Google Occidental Petroleum\/Warren Buffet if you want to read more about Buffett\u2019s investment.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I would like welcome our new readers. Most of <strong>Main Street beats Wall Street<\/strong> is teaching option trading. However, make sure you read all pages of Wealth Builder. If you have any questions send me an email.<\/p>\n<p>Just a reminder, all positions bought for a Wealth Builder portfolio were funded from my trading.<\/p>\n<p>Successful trading,<\/p>\n<p>Steve<\/p>\n<p><em>The Options Coach<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought 500 shares of Occidental Petroleum (OXY) which is going to start a new portfolio in Wealth Builder. I mentioned in a few post that I want to start a 4th portfolio which will be part Wealth Builder. This new portfolio will hold great stock that are very good dividend plays. I\u2019ll have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75MP0-1KH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8143,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739\/revisions\/8143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}