2022 January Dividends

January is  in books  and this month i received $423 in dividends for the month .Compared to previous years some of the biggest increases were from Fundrise, ITW and DG. I was doing recurring investments in DG and ITW last year.

	2021	2022
WMT	9.23	9.51	0.28
MO	25.98	28.72	2.74
LADR	4.67	4.83	0.16
O	6.24	6.75	0.51
CSCO	21.55	22.6	1.05
VTR	15.15	15.39	0.24
BNS	40.8	46.94	6.14
MO	21.5	25.95	4.45
ITW	7.24	15.54	8.3
STWD	25.32	27.45	2.13
DG	3.6	7.67	4.07
CSCO	10.08	11.03	0.95
IRM	6.17	6.35	0.18
PEP	11.69	13.07	1.38
MO	7.99	9.46	1.47
AGNC	6.17	6.54	0.37
STWD	56.24	58.78	2.54
CINF	33.53	36.03	2.5
NLY	12	12.62	0.62
JPM	9.9	11.2	1.3
Fundrise	30.3	46.73	16.43
	365.35	423.16	57.81

Compared to all my Previous January this is the second highest and compared to last year its an increase of  18%.

2022 Dividend Goal: This year my Goal is 14K in dividends ,Last year I was able to get 12.5K in Dividends ,so this year i need another 1500 in dividends to reach my goal. I am hoping to achieve this with New investments and dividend increases.

With January dividends this stands at 3% of my goal.

2021 December Dividends

Final Month of 2021 is in books and I received very good Dividends for this month and this helped me achieve my goal of 11k in Dividends for 2021 .Total Dividends for this month are $2881 and most of them are my from retirement accounts $2881 and this a new Record for December and This pushed my 2021 Dividends to 12.5K for the year. This is almost 1k a  month 

Compared to 2020 December  my dividends were up by $1200 and 71%.Now some of increase came from dividend hikes and other from New investment like LMT,AVGO

Dec-19	Dec-20	Dec-21
2688	1677	2881

Currently the quarter ends are the big numbers  and January seems to be the lowest dividend month for me. I am trying to add more funds if possible .

2022 Dividend Goal: This year I am hoping to achieve 14K in dividends .

2021 November Dividend Income

 Wow Month 11 is  in book and almost another 25 days for new year. This Month i received $596 in dividends and this a new record for November.

As you see I added ABBV early this year and VZ in last few months and this is starting to make impact. and compared to last year to this year ,I  initiated a new position in BMY and these comprised my biggest increase.

Compared to last year ,my dividends increased  by 23%,one caveat is  last  year UL  paid in November and this year they are paying in December.

2020	2021
VZ	16.94	36.95	20.01
T	52.52	56.4	3.88
CVS	23.5	25.69	2.19
MA	0.52	1.01	0.49
WRK	7.05	8.96	1.91
SBUX	13.12	14.51	1.39
DE	19.43	26.91	7.48
BMY	0	29.4	29.4
AGNC	6.17	6.44	0.27
GD	21.42	29.82	8.4
NNN	3.28	3.79	0.51
HRL	10.96	11.67	0.71
ABBV	61.36	75.53	14.17
AAPL	82.52	88.84	6.32
CAT	52.77	57.41	4.64
AMP	15.71	17.22	1.51
SBUX	9.7	10.64	0.94
RY	8.38	10.26	1.88
T	52.52	55.44	2.92
O	6.23	6.41	0.18
PG	20.86	23.23	2.37
	484.96	596.53	111.57

2021 Dividend

2021 Dividend Goal: I received 87%  of my 11k in dividends for this year and With this month dividends ,I crossed my 2020 whole year  Dividends. Will be interesting to see  where i will land  in whole dividends received.

2021 October Dividend Report

 October is in books and final 2 months of 2021 is left  for us.

This month i received  $488 in dividends .I have fidelity fund that pays in October and its helping this month total.

	2020	2021
MO	20.64	25.46	4.82
ITW	7.21	12.21	5
STWD	25.32	26.94	1.62
DG	3.6	5.04	1.44
CSCO	9.72	10.96	1.24
FXAIX	82.27	96.49	14.22
IRM	5.74	6.26	0.52
MO	7.99	9.29	1.3
AGNC	6.17	6.4	0.23
STWD	56.64	57.69	1.05
CINF	33.28	35.83	2.55
NLY	12	12.32	0.32
JPM	0	11.13	11.13
KO	9.17	9.96	0.79
MO	23.4	28.19	4.79
VTR	15.15	15.27	0.12
LADR	4.47	4.75	0.28
O	6.23	6.39	0.16
CSCO	21.55	22.422	0.872
BNS	39.19	42.952	3.762
Fundrise	26.73	42.53	15.8
	416.47	488.484

Compared to last October dividends i am up 17%.

Oct-17	Oct-18	Oct-19	Oct-20	Oct-21
144.33	205.51	329.61	416.47	488.484

2021 Dividend Goal: My goal of 11k in dividends for this year is at 81% with October dividends and  expecting same amount of dividends  as last year i will cross my 11k Dividends. 

2021 September Dividend Report

 Q3 is in books and almost reaching the end of the year  and 82 days left in the year as of 10/10/2021.

 This Month i received $1737  in dividends and this is  good ,Almost  like receiving $60 daily  in dividends

Compared to 2020  dividends increased by $383 , some of them are like increased positions like AVO,MMM,JNJ and some in dividends increase and biggest of them is BBL  like $180 in increased dividends.

Looking at the monthly dividend charts  Quarter ends are my biggest months

Year over September Dividend Growth

2021 Dividend Goal:
This year i had a dividend goal of 11K and so far i received $8500 in dividends and i am at 77% of the goal. I think i am on track  to meet my goal .So far   i received more than 50K in dividends in last 8 years.

2021 August Dividend Report

 One  more month in  books and  this is the favorite time of the year with college football and NFL.

20 Companies paid me dividends this month and its getting better with each year.

Since late last year i have been dripping all my dividends and you can see from the table below the small gains in each of them. I added some ABBV and GD since last August and we can see big increases in them.

	2020	2021
T	104	109.82	5.82
VZ	16.61	23.17	6.56
CVS	23	25.54	2.54
MA	0.52	0.88	0.36
SBUX	11.95	13.29	1.34
WRK	7.05	8.57	1.52
BMY	0	29.4	29.4
GD	19.16	29.64	10.48
ABBV	61.36	74.68	13.32
NNN	3.28	3.75	0.47
HRL	10.96	11.61	0.65
SBUX	8.83	9.73	0.9
DE	19.43	23.01	3.58
AGNC	6.17	6.3	0.13
CAT	52.77	57.11	4.34
AMP	15.71	17.15	1.44
RY	8.17	10.22	2.05
AAPL	82.52	88.71	6.19
O	6.22	6.33	0.11
AMP	15.71	17.15	1.44
PG	20.86	23.09	2.23
	494.28	589.15	94.87
			0.161028601

Compared to my August 2020 dividend income increased by 16%.

Aug-17	Aug-18	Aug-19	Aug-20	Aug-21
202.04	277.7	429.86	494.28	589.15

2021 Dividend Goal: For this year my Goal was 11k on dividends and i am 61% as of this month and i think i should be able to reach the goal.

2021 July Dividend Report

 One more Month in books and this year is running off quickly .This month Dividend crossed $600 due    to special dividend  from TROW. I received a total of $617 in dividends for this month, setting up       new  record for the month of July .It Jumped directly to 600 from 400 skipping 500 record.

Compared to 2020 July my dividends increased by 48%.

Jul-17	Jul-18	Jul-19	Jul-20	Jul-21
214.02	340.55	363.9	416.32	617.65

2021 Dividend Goal: I am at 56% of my Goal of 11K in dividends , so it looks like it might be very close to the goal .  

2021 June Dividend Report

Q2 Completed and now i am ready with another monthly dividend report. This one surprised me as  one of my funds payed me a huge dividend.  This month i received total dividends of $2250.84,Big reason  for  this is payment from RERGX, last year  and this quarter they paid negligible dividends .Another reason for my confusion is  RERGX split the payment as capital gain, but most websites are reporting as dividend.

Comparing with 2020 June  this is a big gain due to Rergx,but we had other increases in dividend payees.

Jun-17	Jun-18	Jun-19	Jun-20	Jun-21
446	2035.54	1206	1215.97	2250

Comparing to 2020 June  i had 3 dividend reductions  with WFC being big cut of $45.

2021 Dividend Goal: With the unexpected payment from RERGX, I am at 50.5% of my goal of 11k.For month of July special dividend payment from Trow should also help.

Recent Buy -GD,BMY & SELL- AMC

 Earlier this year I took a speculative position  in AMC  ,was expecting a similar ride like GME and in last two weeks it came to fruition .

I sold 55% of my AMC Position to grab my Regular dividend Paying stocks. 

With the profits  and capital from that sale I invested in BMY a new position in my account and added 3.78 shares of GD to bring that position close to 25 shares.

These new purchases will add another $86 to my account and i invested around $3k for a yield of 2.9%.

2021 May Dividend Report

Month 5 is in  Books and this month i received more than $500  in dividends.

T is one of the bigger payer and coming close second  is AAPL.

This may change as T announced some changes  starting early next year.

This year May dividends are less than 2020. Due to changes  in my portfolio that i made last year.

I sold out RY/BMO  position and re-added small RY position . GD position increased.

2021 Dividend Goal: Total dividends received  so far in 2021 are close to 3300 and its like 30% of my goal of 11k for this year.

2021 April Dividend Income report

 April Month is  done and  time is flying very quickly .This month 19 companies paid me dividends and compared to last year  2 new companies paid dividends and  they are CINF and JPM.

Total Dividends received this month are $446.87 Compared to 2020 its almost like no gain.

As seen from the tables below they are some cuts that happened in my account and not fully returned like FXAIX,NLY and CXW. CXW i sold the company  last year and dividend income is not completely replaced. VTR also i sold part of the position.

Dividend Reinvestment:

Since early this year some of the  dividends are  being Dripped. This  month following dividends are dripped.

2021 Dividends:  So far till April i have received 25.3%  of my goal (11K Dividends),same time last year i was at 22%,so this year its progressing at better rate.

2021 March Dividend Report

March is also in Books and with that Q1 is completed. I have received $1506 in Dividends. This is like receiving $48 in dividends every day of march.  This is all time high for Month of the March. Some of the payers added in last few months are showing the impact. 

Some of my Biggest Payers this month is BBL,DFS,MMM,JNJ. 

Compared to my 2020 March, this has grown 27%. Overall 2021 Q1 is up 17% compared to 2020 Q1.

2021 Goal:  With this month Dividends I am  at 21% of the goal  of 11k in dividends this year.

 Personal News: Got both the doses of vaccine and i am another week for post 3 weeks completion of Vaccine . Personally didn’t have much side affects or pain except on the day of vaccine.

2021 February Dividend Income Report.

 Compared to last year  some new positions initiated are  AMP,RY,JPM. WRK and AGNC reduced dividend Payout and the impact is small .

2021 Goal.: This year i am continuing my Goal of 11K in dividends. So Far i Collected $838 for 2 months which is like 7%  of the Goal.

2021 January Dividend Report

 2021 Already began and one month Gone. Slowly Life returning to normality and its  time for one more dividend report. After many  reports of  income increase reports ,this one will be a decrease compared to last January report. This month i received $355 .85 in dividends which is $15 less than Jan 2020 income. One new Name in Jan 2021 report compared to 2020 is CINF.

Dividends Cut: Dividend Cuts  from last year  are still  big impact on this month report ,as you can see  it reduced my dividends by $70. Hoping to see if DIS will resume their dividends some time this year.

Dividend/Options Income : This Year i would like to keep my Goal of 2020 of 11k and will see if i can  achieve the Goal. I Started doing  covered calls last year and it brought be me some income, I didn’t include that one dividends. 
I will be adding some funds and buying some  stocks ,but i am hoping to get closer  to 11k goal  either with dividend increases or  401k buys that happen twice a month.

2020 December Dividends

 2020 is in books , one of the most unexpected years at least in my generation. Now coming to dividends i had a high hopes for December, but it turned out anticlimactic .I received less dividends this year compared to last December and it was significant.

One of the reason for significant reduction was very small distribution from RERGX one of my biggest funds .In 2019 I received more than 1300 in dividends and distribution from them.

Overall Dividends received were $1677,This is 38% decrease from 2019.But overall dividends compared to 2019 went by $10. This Year my goal was to get 11k in dividends and I achieved 82% of the goal. This year i will raise the goal to 12k Dividends. It will be very interesting to see where I will land.

Overall with all the things considered I  am ok with where things ended.

Expired options -Covered calls SPCE,ASPS.

 Since I Acquired  100 shares of SPCE  in February of this year at $38.05 I started writing covered calls  to recover the capital and always write the call out of the money ,so that i wont lose the shares , now this yields low option price and I am ok with that.

So Far I wrote  16 covered calls either weekly or biweekly if the option price is low. 3 times I bought my call back so that I can write an expensive call this costed me total of $16. This way I recovered $654.

ou can see my current call expires next Thursday .Only last week when SPCE rallied all the way to $35.73 ,that was only close one.

ASPS: This is another one i have been writing monthly calls ,as there is not much activity on weekly calls.

Now this one is interesting ,as my latest call is almost in the money and it seems to be certain to get called away .I am Ok with it being called away also. As my average share price is less than $10.Now if it doesn`t get called ,will be writing $15 Call as that seems to fetch more money.

2020 November Dividends

 One more month in books and we are almost at the end of the year. What a strange year, no one  expected  to be this kind of year with pandemic and huge fall in stock market and rise again.

I have received $543 in dividends for the month of November ,Almost like $17 every day of the month.

Compared to previous November its up 21% .Slowly more months are crossing the threshold of $500 .

So far out of the 11 months  6 months crossed  500 and 3 months crossed 1000 in dividends

For this month T  and AAPL are the biggest payers for me.
2020 Dividend Goals: 
 I had a goal of 11k in dividends received  and with this month payments I received  7.4k in dividends . For December I need to receive 3600 in dividends  ,for comparison last year I received  2.6K dividends in December 2019   I need 33% increase over  last year.

How did you Guys do for November?

October dividends

One more month is completed and we are less than 2 months from New Year. This month I received  over $400 in dividends.I have been slowly building position in MO.

Compared  to 2019 October it is up by 26%.Even with dividend Cuts in few companies.

Oct-16	Oct-17	Oct-18	Oct-19	Oct-20
134.61	144.33	205.51	329.61	416.47

2020 Goal: I had a goal of 11K in dividends for 2020 and  so far I am at 62% of the goal. If  I receive similar income as last for the last 2 months I will be at 10k. It will be interesting to see.

How did you guys do?

September 2020 Dividends

 Q3 Completed  and I have received over $1300 in dividends from Multiple companies  .

Again New record for September even with  dividend cuts in WFC .

Biggest Payers  are DFS,LMT,GILD from stocks and VMCPX from Funds.

Comparisons:
Compared to 2019 September  my dividends went up by 14% which is lot better than decrease.
Looking back its good to see the growth in the dividends reaching 4 digits in 2019 and continuing 2020.






 
2020 Goal: 
I had a goal 11K in dividends for this year, so far i collected 58% of the Goal .It will be difficult unless i add some huge amount of new funds .Lets see where i will end.

August Dividends

August  month 8 is in Books and  time is flying even quicker. I have received dividends from 21 companies this month across my accounts.

I received $502 in dividends this month and its a new record for me for the month of august even with big cuts in WFC. Compared to last August  its an increase of 16%. With AAPL/T/CAT being the biggest payers.

As seen it has been good growth for the last few years .

I crossed 5K dividends with this month dividends.I had a Goal of 11K Dividends for this year and with all these cuts it will be a tough ask,as of this month i reached 46% of goal. If i received same amount of dividends for the last 4 months i will be  9.7K. 

Recent BUYS -MMM,MO

Recently i started doing some trades in dollar values instead of number of shares.

7/28 Bought $100 worth of MMM share @155.69(.642 shares)

7/31 Bought $100 worth of MMM share@149.28(.669 Shares)

7/31 Bought 1 share of  MMM  @150.28.

8/13 Bought 5 shares of MO@ 42.75

I also added some speculative plays like RIOT,ASPS this month.

Expired Options SPCE

 Since I bought SPCE at $38 Have been writing  weekly/monthly covered calls to recover some  of the capital.

SPCE 05/29/2020 Call $30.00   $3

SPCE 06/12/2020 Call $35.00   $7

SPCE 06/26/2020 Call $35.00   $6

7/16  SPCE 07/17/2020 Call $34.00   $15

7/16 SPCE 07/17/2020 Call $34.00   -1 Bought the call back before expiration

7/22 SPCE 07/24/2020 Call $35.00  $28

7/22 SPCE 07/24/2020 Call $35.00  -14   Bought the call back before expiration

SPCE 07/31/2020 Call $35.00     $53

8/3 SPCE 08/14/2020 Call $33.00   $40

8/7  SPCE 08/14/2020 Call $33.00   -$1  Bought the call back before expiration

Overall I recovered  around $140 dollars  from the capital invested.

2020 July Dividend Report

Time is flying ,world is different ,Hope we get the treatment/vaccine soon. July is in books.Overall 20 Companies paid me dividends this month ,From companies that paid me dividends in AprilCXW completely Cut dividends and VTR and Fundrise reduced by  $25 each .
Overall dividends received in July are 416.32 which is a new record for the month of July Since i started tracking my dividends.
Compared to my 2019 July this is 13% increase with all these cuts.JPM/CINF Are new additions to the portfolio.

July Month Comparison over the Years.

2020 Dividends.Before the Pandemic i hoped to receive 11k  in dividends with increases,new addition of funds .So Far i am at 42% of the Goal with 5 more Months to Go and i am starting to think it will be stretch Goal .

June Dividends

I have received the following dividends for the month of June.
Total Dividends  Received for the month of June is 1215 .Its an increase compared to last year.

Looking at the last few years  after peaking in June 2018 ,dividends are down for the month of June.

2020 Dividend Goal.This year i aimed  for 11K in dividends before the pandemic and cuts ,So far i received $4200 in dividends  ,lets see where i will land.
Stay Safe

BUY DFS,PRU,AFL,WFC — sell VTR,UNH

Recent Transactions in my account.
I have been trying to average some of the stocks in my account.

Run Date	Symbol	Quantity	Price ($)	Amount ($)
06/24/2020	AFL	1	35.5	-35.5
06/24/2020	BA	0.282	177.17	-49.96
06/24/2020	LMT	1	360.36	-360.36
06/24/2020	PRU	1	59.37	-59.37
06/23/2020	LMT	0.053	374.34	-19.84
06/23/2020	PRU	0.157	63.35	-9.95
06/18/2020	PRU	0.314	64.94	-20.39
06/15/2020	WFC	2	26.73	-53.46
06/11/2020	BA	0.139	179	-24.88
06/11/2020	BA	0.134	185.74	-24.89
06/11/2020	CINF	5	60.64	-303.21
06/11/2020	DFS	1	50.45	-50.45
06/11/2020	DFS	1	52.08	-52.08
06/11/2020	LYB	2	64	-128
06/11/2020	LYB	2	67.6	-135.19
06/11/2020	WFC	2	27.95	-55.89

I bought and sold and collected dividends on the following companies.

Run Date		Symbol	Quantity	Price ($)	Amount ($)
06/24/2020	Sell	UNH	-11	292.15	3213.57
06/18/2020	Buy	UNH	11	289	-3179
6/24/2020	sell	VTR	20	33.89	677.8
3/30/2020	Buy	VTR	20	28.06	-561.2

May Dividends

May is completed .19 Companies Paid me Dividends this Month and i added few companies last month before the ex dividend date and Sold them off. RY,BMO are the examples for this.

Total dividends Received this Month are $553.79.With  ATT leading  the way with $104 and some more big hitters like AAPL,RY,ABBV. This  is like some one working 55 hours at $10/hr and Almost receiving $17 a day for the whole month.

Compared to 2019 this month dividends went up by 47%.

2020 Dividend Goal: With this months dividends i reached 27% of the Goal.

How did you Guys do this month.

Recent Buy –HON,ED,AMP

Since the last 1 month i have been slowly adding some purchases.
I added most of these before the  ex dividend date ,So i should get dividend for this quarter.

These will add another $301 in dividends.If none of them Cut dividends in next few months

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Stay Safe and Healthy.

 

Expired Options -SPCE

Since i bought shares of SPCE at $38,i have been writing covered calls for the stock to recover some losses. So far  I have written 3 covered calls and all have expired.

SPCE $58 CALL SELL 2/28 this  netted me $340 as the option expired.

SPCE $43 CALL SELL 4/17 this netted me another $15.

SPCE$35 CALL SELL  5/8 this added  another $43 in premium .

All these calls helped me recover $398  and exactly another $1400 to recover either via stock price or options.

I will keep writing these covered  calls as long as they make sense.

These trades helped me understand options little better and i am looking at writing covered calls for some other positions in my account.

Stay Safe

2020 April Dividend Report

Month 4 is in books and this is the second month of the lock down of covid19 . Market  fluctuations  are drastic ,some of my portfolio losses from March lows have recovered.

My net worth is still 7.5% down from Jan1st totals. Compared to last Month Totals it went up by 12%.

This month i received $440.74 in dividends . Here are the companies that paid dividends to me this month.

I was busy this month adding some of the value stocks  and averaging down on others.

Last 6 years of dividend charts shows the gradual improvements in my monthly dividend income received.

Compared to last year my dividends increased by 29%.

Dividend Cuts:

Following the companies that announced the dividend cuts impacting my account.All of them really small position except RDS.B

RDS.B

AGNC

BA

2020 Dividend Goal: To receive 11K in dividends .

So Far i have received 22% of the Goal amount with 8 more months to go.

So how did Everyone do in their April Month so far . Stay Safe.

 

Buys -VTR,GD,AFL,T

Since the last 15 days i have been adding in small quantities different companies.

Here are the buys.

Mostly averaging down on the companies i own.

Total funds invested 2500 and this will add $149 in dividends if no one of them experiences any cuts.

I think i am done adding T unless it falls to low 25 range.

if you noticed i started adding lot of partial share purchases in my accounts dude to robin hood and Fidelity.

 

2020 March Dividend Report

So much stuff happened in the last 1 month since my previous dividend report to this one.
Most of the world is under some kind of lockdown due to the virus and its becoming tough to stay inside .I haven’t stepped out of my house since March 24th for any shopping.

This month quite a few companies paid me dividends and Total Dividends received this month are $1182.28 . Out of this Retirement accounts contributed 65% of the dividends . Its like receiving $40 daily.This is my dividend Distribution.In taxable account my biggest dividend Payers are BBL.

Compared to 2019  this year dividend income is up 16%. and this is second successive year that March dividend income crossed 1k.  AVGO,DFS are some of my newest dividend payers.

2020 Dividend Goal.
So Far i received $1998.54 in dividends for Q1,This is 18.1% of my goal of  11k in dividends .

Buy Action in my accounts

In last 2 weeks,i have made some purchases with dividends received in my account.

looks like could have got some better prices,but we cant time the market.

 

RobinHood Purchases

3/6 2 share of WRK  @30.23

3/13 2 shares of STWD @16.92

 

I am loving fidelity fractional share purchases and as you can see i am making quite a few  of them in last few days. May be i will make a token purchase of BRK A.

 

 

Recent Buys -AVGO(Fractional Share),DFS

Recently found out that fidelity is now allowing fractional share buying.This will make it harder for me use to robinhood after the recent Outage.I am considering of moving my shares from Robinhood to Td Ameritrade  for consolidation . One less account to worry about.

so to try out the fractional share buying i placed 1 orders of AVGO and 1 fidelity fund (FXAIX)

I did it using the App and it was smooth.

Also added 1 share of DFS at $64.63 today. Trying to average down from 76.02.

Nice to see new features added in fidelity account.

Expired options -SPCE

I have always wanted to try and learn options ,been reading about them and was willing to try ,Finally i bought 100 shares of SPCE   on Feb 20th for 38.05/share. On the same day i sold an covered call for $3.4/contract  to sell 100 shares at $58  with an expiration date of 2/28.

Initially i  wanted to try with discover shares in my IRA account in TD ameritrade but was denied .

Now this a speculative buy ,that i have been doing since last month ,I bought  and sold TSLA,SHOP etc.

Now since the Market has  tanked since i wrote the call i Kept the  money $340  as the trading price didn’t even cross $40 ,but my investment is in loss since then.Yes I recovered little bit by writing the call.

I have been  trying to see if i could  do T or Another SPCE call in future.

 

 

 

2019 Feb Dividend Report

Month 2 is in books and quickly time is almost approaching quarter end. This month i have been paid by 16 companies .

Total Dividends received for this month is  $445.76. Compared to last February this is like 30% more . Its almost like $15 received everyday of the month. Looking at the numbers from last year we can see the impact of dividend increases on AAPL,CAT  and New additions made in last year .

ATT is approaching $100 dividends in Quarter that is  really Good.

AAPL,CAT,ABBV are also contributing significantly. Some of the new stocks  in this report compared to last Year are Abbv,MA,GD.

 

2020 Dividend Goals:

This Year the goal is to achieve 11k in Dividends .So far i  have received 7.4% of the Goal.

So how did everyone do this Month.

Dividend Hike —KO,WMT,PEP,HD

Lost in the market downturn are the hikes received in my account .

I have received 4 more Hikes.

KO announced a 2.5% hike and it went up from $1.6/share  to 1.64 a share .

HD announced a 10.3% hike and went up from $5.44 /share to $6.

WMT announced 1.89% hike from $2.0 to 2.12 .

Pep announced 3% hike from 3.71 to 3.82/share.

with this i received 13 hikes in 2020 and $76 added to my account.

 

 

so how many hikes did you receive in the  last few days.

 

2020 BUYS 4 —MMM,AVGO

I have been little busy buying stocks almost weekly.

Buy 2 shares of MMM was executed at an average price of $159.67 on February 13th, 2020 at 10:04 AM.

Buy 1 share of AVGO was executed at an average price of $309.00 on February 18th, 2020 at 10:03 AM.

Buy 2 shares of AVGO was executed at an average price of $306.78 on February 20th, 2020 at 11:34 AM

2/19 8 Shares of DFS at $75.10  .

Non Dividend stock purchases.

2/10 4 shares of AMRN for $71.42

2/10 1 share of LYFT at 52.65

New dividend purchases will add another $64 to  my annual fund.

 

Fundrise investment #2

Another month into the calendar year and i added another $500 to my account and this will bring total invested in fundrise to 3.6K. Plan is add some more dollars and bring it to 5k or 10k   this year.

I have been buying some stocks and will update in next post .

Dividend Hikes #8(TROW)& #9(CSCO)

Two of the companies in my account have increased their dividends .

Trow started with a bang 18% increase in dividend from 0.76 to 0.90. This will add another $28 to my account.

CSCO with a 3% hike from 0.35 to 0.36 a share. This added another $2.88.

Both these increases will contribute $31.76 to my fund.

So Far  increased dividends will add $71 in my account without any new contributions.

 

 

2020 BUYS 3 –WRK,GILD,MMM

I have added the following shares  to my existing positions.

1/23  8  shares of GILD at $63.24

1/28 4 shares of MMM at 168.6

1/31 2 shares of MMM at 159.56

1/31 10 shares of WRK at $38.66

 

Overall close to 1900 invested and this will add another $75 to my dividends .

so what are folks buying these days.

2020 Dividend Hikes -MMM,GILD,PRU,AFL

I have seen another 4 Increases in my portfolio .

GILD increased dividend by 7.9%  to.68 cents and this will add $15.8 to my fund.

PRU announced 10% increase to dividend bringing it to $1.1/share and this will add another $6.67

MMM Increased  dividend by 2% from 1.44 to 1.47 and this will add $2.88

AFL increased dividend by 3.7% from 0.27 to 0.28 and will add .822 to funds.

Overall these 4 dividend increases added $26.14 to my fund.

Overall 7 dividend hikes in 2020 so far  adding $38.5 to total.

 

2020 January Dividend Report

It’s like a dream,that how fast this month went away.This month 20 Companies paid me dividends ,that not including Fundrise.

Total Dividends received this Month are $370.5 ,this is less than last year  due to BBL .

Last year BBL had a special dividend of $2/share .

This  Month my biggest contributor is STWD with $74  almost 20% of the dividends received.

 

2020 Dividend Goals:

Last Year i achieved close 9100 in dividends.This year i would like to achieve 11k .

With that in mind  i am so 3.3% of the Goal Achieved.

so how did everyone do this month.

 

2020 Dividend Hikes -CVX,ADM,O

Following Companies in my portfolio announced dividend hikes .

CVX increased their dividend by more than 8% ,it went up from 1.19 to 1.29. This will add $10 to my account.

ADM increased their dividend by 2.8% and this will add another $.76 to my account.

O increased their dividend  ad this added another $1.5 to my account.

All these increases add up $12.42 to my account.

2019 BUYS 2 -CSCO,GILD,AVGO

Added the following Shares in my Roth/rollover account .

1/13 1 Share of IRM at 30.58

1/13 3 Shares of AVGO at 302.30/share

1/17 1 Share of GILD at 63.04.

Robinhood :

1/15 1 share of GILD at 64.20

1/16 1 share of GILD at 64.10

1/16 2 shares of GILD at 63.24

1/14 1 Share of CSCO at 7.72

1/14 2 shares of AVGO at 302.98

 

All these new additions will add another $80 to my annual dividend Fund.

 

 

 

 

Recent Sell -NOV

Recently sold one of my stock. It was National Oil Varco. I had 26 shares in it at the cost $48/share . I received $609 in proceeds for a loss of $656 and 51% loss not including dividends.I received another $64 in dividends and bringing the loss to $592.Should i have sold long time the moment they announced dividend Cut. With this i have only RDS and CVX in oil industry.

I already deployed these funds .

 

Recent Investment –FUNDRISE

This month i put in new capital to work in Fundrise. I added another $500 to my existing capital.This is the third time adding capital ,first time since 2016 .My dividends are also being reinvested .Thinking of doing $500 quarterly investment in fundrise or semi annually .

For Q4 i received 35.54 Dividends which are reinvested as follows.Compared to 2018 Q4 this is $3 less in dividends.

Since i started investment in fundrise in 2016 ,so far received $490 in dividends and $311 in appreciation.

Any one else investing in fundrise or crowd street or similar platforms.

2020 Buys -GD,GILD

New Year started and the market isnt slowing ,I was waiting to invest in my roth IRA account .

I added 5 shares of GD at 178.18 on Jan2nd .I am was waiting to add GD and this will add another $20 to my dividends and i will receive my first dividend payment in Feb .The ex dividend date is jan16th ,so there is a chance i may add another 5 or wait.

I averaged down GILD  by adding 2 more shares if GILD at 64.61,this brings my average to 69.23 and this will add another $5 to my account.

So with 1K invested i will add another $25 dividends to my account.

2019 December Dividend Report

2019 Also completed and this is 3 years since i started reporting my dividends.This month is a new record for me for the month of December. I received total dividends of $2688. This is the first time i crossed 2k in Dividends for a month . 89% of the dividends were from retirements accounts.

Total dividends received this year is 9.1k.

With all the dividends received since i started tracking dividends is 35k.

Biggest contributor for this month is RERGX with almost like 1340 and 50% of my dividends.

Dividends received over the  years.

Compared to last years dividend ,dividend went up by 35%

Thanks to dividend hikes and new money invested  and dividend is snowballing slowly.

so how did everyone do this december.

2019 Final 401K Buys

Here the recent purchases made in 401k account ,that should bring me  close to the Maxing out this year.

I  added 8.6  shares of VIMAX a 5 star rated on Morningstar  which adds another $24 In dividends to the Fund.

21 shares of VTMGX ,this will add another $7 to annual fund.

Also my spouse started part time work  like 10 hours a week ,they offer 401k ,but no match ,still i enrolled in it and this added another 4.5  Shares of VLCAX.

Added 1 more share of GILD in my robin hood account with dividends received from GILD today and others.

 

Happy new year and Happy Holidays.

BUYS –WFC,GILD,BNS

Since zero fees to buy in all of my accounts ,as soon i have enough to buy a stock i keep adding to them.

12/20 Added 1 share of WFC at 53.76

12/19 added 2 shares of BNS at  56.20

12/19 added 3 shares of WFC at 53.74

12/19 added 4  shares of GILD at 65.40

12/17 added 1 share of GILD at 66.30

final tally is 4 shares of WFC, 2 shares of BNS and 5 shares of GILD were added in last week. These will add another $26 to dividend fund.