Dividend Increases

So Early  this year many dividend cuts, I stopped following the increases in early june  as they were very few here and there in my portfolio. Now almost at the end of the year, I went back  till June to check how many increases i had how much impact it had on my account.

So i had 11 increases in my account adding up to $75 to my dividends. ABBV had the biggest impact.

Overall this year I  had $173 added in dividend increases  for my account. My portfolio yield is around 2.2%  This mean like new capital like 7k in capital.

ymbol	Dividend Hike
ABBV	24.96
RDS	2.86
HRL	2.35655
AFL	1.48
V	5
SBUX	8.132
LMT	18.84
ITW	1.778
TGT	4.7544
KR	1.9432
SBUX	3.26
	75.36415

So how did you Guys do with increases.

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.

 

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 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 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.

Dividend Hikes –D,T,AMGN

Some of the stocks in my portfolio announced dividend hikes in the past few days.

AMGN announced a dividend hike by 10% and this increased my dividends in my account by $15.

T announced 2% dividend hike  and this increased my dividends by another $7.56.

D increased its dividend by 2.5% and this added another $2 to my fund.

without adding new funds ,dividends increased by $25 .

so how many increases did  you guys see in the last weeks.

 

Buys and Dividend Hikes.

Recent transactions include

11/1 2 shares of MO at $44.95

11/7 2 shares of GILD at $63.67

Dividend increases.

SBUX increased its quarterly dividend by $0.05 cents and this added an additional $10 my account.

ABBV increased its quarterly dividend by $11 cents and this increase added $22.88 to my account.

All these hikes and purchases added another $44 to my annual Fund.

 

 

Dividend Increases -BBL,O,MSFT

Following companies in my account announced dividend increases  in last few weeks.

BBL : They increased the september payment from 1.26 to 1.56 . I have 67 shares of BBL so this will increase my dividend by  $20.

MSFT : Increased its dividend from 0.46/quarter to 0.51/quarter and this will add another $3.2 in my account.

O: The increase is small like 60 cents for my 25 shares.

Overall these increases added $23  to my account .

 

 

Dividend Hikes,MO,BNS

Two of the companies in my account increased their dividend and This will add additional dollars to my account.

MO increased their dividend  from 0.80 to 0.84 cents a quarter and this will add another $5 to my account .

BNS increased their dividend from 0.664 to 0.682 and this will add another another $3.6. So with these 2 increases i will get another $9 added to annual fund. Good to get all these raises from the companies.

This is like investing another $150 or more in T Shares.

 

 

Dividend Hikes and Cuts, Buy MO

Here are the latest dividend Hikes and Cuts in my account.

TGT announced dividend increase from 0.64 to 0.66. This will increase my dividends by $4.72

AGNC Reduced its dividend from 0.18 to 0.16 this reduced my dividends by  $4.08

NLY reduced its dividend from 0.3 to 0.25c  this reduced my dividends by 10.6

These 2 cuts are small positions in my account and i am going to let them ride for now.

added

3 shares of MO. This will add another $12.8

Due to all cuts  ,My overall dividends increased by only 2.84