Sold: Telia Company, Apple Inc. & NEL ASA

I decided to restructure my finances including mortage. In my current strategy debt to equity ratio is one key metric. I plan to include mortage in the debt component but exclude the attached real estate from equity. This is because co-owned real estate used as home is by no means liquid asset. In theory it doesn’t make sense to pay off cheap loans too soon but there are many factors to it. One is the current cycle phase and trade war in general which makes this likely a decent time to lock in some tax efficient gains and play safe. Therefore I sold today 650 shares of Telia Company for 41,18 SEK per share (roughly break even), 70 shares of Apple Inc for 202,1101 USD per share (roughly 3000 EUR profit plus dividends which I can offset with old losses) and 2500 shares of NEL ASA for 6,68 NOK per share. There’s a good chance that I’ll regret these at least for short term. I still see a 300 USD per share bull case for Apple but then again it’s very much possible that I can buy these back as I expect the trade war issue to remain well beyond US elections next year. NEL is a question mark but I kept 3000 shares just in case my bull thesis for 2025 plays out the way I expect.

Recent Swap: Pfizer for 3M and EPR Properties

Pfizer is about the spin-off it’s generics business and the impact on company profile and dividend strategy remains to be seen. This move is too complex for me understand in detail but I expect further short term pressure on the share price while this saga plays itself out (as many conservative shareholders will wonder how this will play out). I decided to protect the invested capital and sold all 100 shares for 35,44 USD per share (originally bought in the 32,36-33,79 range in 2017). During this time I received 304,00 USD (pre tax) in dividends. I used this capital to buy 10 shares of 3M company for 163,12 USD per share and 20 shares of EPR Properties for 76,77 USD per share. 3M is what it is. Not cheap but acceptable. EPR is a monthly paying REIT which is reasonably recession resistant and should benefit from the insanely low interest rate environment. I might add GEO Group as well since prison REIT should be quite a solid bet going into recession.