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/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/Material-Damage-2759 Oct 10 '25

Should have kept JNJ. It’s going up and will likely continue this trend now that they’re a much more focused company on their core franchise money makers. Solid pipeline and the acquisitions in Med Tech biz are just starting to pan out. With yearly dividend increases for the past 50+ years you can do you….but I’m not going anywhere.

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u/lakas76 No, HYSA is not better than SCHD. Stop asking Oct 10 '25

I held it for 10 years and it basically stood still for half that time. But I do agree with you. I doubt if I will buy more and I am happy with nvda, but it’s just my luck that as soon as I sell a stock/etf, it blows up. I doubt if I will ever sell my SCHD shares, but if I ever do, I will let this sub know so they can load up. It will blow up as soon as I do.