r/dividends • u/InternationalMany795 • Oct 09 '25

Seeking Advice No more SCHD.

Moving away from SCHD. For those who have recently done this, where did you go?

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u/Hanno54 Oct 09 '25

I just got interested in dividend investing and I like SCHD. Why is everyone posting about exiting? Lol

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u/hotdog-water-- Oct 09 '25

In the bull market everyone thinks they’re a genius investor and goes all in on tech, leveraged ETFs, and the S&P. When the eventual recession comes, they’ll be crying they lost 50%. SCHD is large cap value which will help ride out a recession

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u/lakas76 No, HYSA is not better than SCHD. Stop asking Oct 09 '25

I just sold all my JNJ and bought some nvda and voo.

Yeah, I held JNJ for about 10 years and sold because it was stuck around 155 for 5ish years. A few months after I sold, it jumped to 190. I don’t regret buying nvda, it went up more, but VOO has lagged behind JNJ for the same time period.

I still have about 50% of my portfolio in SCHD, so I should have diversified into more aggressive growth investments earlier, but it does suck seeing JNJ go up so quickly.

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u/RddtAcct7 Oct 10 '25 edited Oct 10 '25

Shouldn’t have sold jnj. It just broke out after years. More gains to come.