New Year New Buys

New year started and we resumed buying some stocks in my accounts.Currently i am going to buy in small quantities/Amounts  there are some uncertainties ,so until there is some clarity i am going to hold on to the cash.

11 shares of MO at $46.84 ,this will add another $35.2 into my account.

1 share of T at 30.80 ,will another $2 my to account.

So what's everyone one buying .

FINAL TRANSACTIONS OF 2018

As the last day of the year,i have some Dividend Money left over in my accounts and i ended up Buying the following shares .

12/31 3 shares of T at 28.5

12/17 1 share of  T at 30.00

12/13 1 share of T at 29.86

12/11 1 share of MO at 54.51

 

All these will add $15.4 to my fund.

November Dividend Report

This is the second last of the year.This month 12 companies paid me  and AAPL/T being the biggest Payers.

This month i received $283.3  from my companies.

Here is the list of the companies that paid me.



Compared to last year this $82 more  and its 41% increase.



 

This month  i added

4  Shares of T at 30.90 on 11/7

2 Shares of MO at $57 on 11/16.

These 2 transactions will add $14.60 in Dividends to my annual Funds.

So how did you guys do this month.

 

Dividend Hike V ,VFC and Buy MMM

Recent weeks with the market fluctuations i  missed my dividend Hikes received in the last few days.

First one is VFC  which increased its dividend from 0.46 to 0.51 an increase of 11%. I have 52 shares so this increase my dividend $10.4.

Second Increase  is V  which increase its dividend from 0.21 to 0.25  and i have a total of 25 shares and this will add another $4 to my account.

I added 1 more share of MMM to my account at $185.86 and this will add $5 .4 .

All these actions adding close to $20 to annual fund.

 

Funfact : This is my 100th post on the blog.

 

 

Buys ----ITM,T,MMM

During the last 3 days when market was down,i decided to average down few of my stocks.I  could have gotten better price,we cant time the market.

1 MMM at $204.84

1 ITW at 134.30

2 T  at 32.08

These all will add another $13.44 to my annual Fund.

Final Buys of the Month : STWD,T,VTR

I added few more shares of the following companies in different accounts.

I added 24 shares of STWD at 21.60  for $518.52 adding $46 to my account.I did this before the ex day so would get dividend next month.

I added 3 shares of T at 33.39  for a total of $100.17 adding  $6  to my account.

Added 1 share of VTR at $54  and adding $3.16 to my account.

 

All these actions added $55 to my annual dividend Fund.

 

Speculative Buys & Sells -TLRY&NBEV

Out of my normal pattern this week i have bought and sold 2 different stocks for small gain. This was me testing the waters of day trading . This week everyone was watching TLRY. I have been watching TLRY since it was at $40, Using my robinhood account i just bought 2 shares of TLRY at $208.99 and sold them at $228.02 ,if i had little more patience on that day i would have gained few more bucks.

Other one i bought and sold is NBEV on 9/20 .I bought 73 shares of NBEV at $ 6.84 and sold them at @ 7.27 for a gain of 30 Bucks.

So in overall 2 days i did make it to positive territory .

 

 

New Buy -IRM

This week added 5  shares of IRM at 36.98 including the fees. Now i reinvesting all my dividends into their respective shares. This new purchase will add another $11.74 to my fund and i made the purchase right before the ex dividend of 9/14 and this will pay me on 10/2. This is a new position for me.

So what are you guys buying.

BUY & Dividend Increases

This last week i added 6 shares of T  at 32.13 for a Total of 192.77. This will add another $12 to my annual Fund .I considered adding MO,maybe in next few days.

Two of the stocks in my portfolio announced dividend Hikes.

BBL  went from 1.1 to 1.26 and i have 63 shares  in my account.This Will add additional $20 in my account.

VZ also announced   quarterly dividend by 2.1% to 60.25 cents a share. I have 27 shares of  VZ and this will increase my fund $1.35

Overall all this actions added  $33 to my Fund.

 

Buy -ITW

I added 3 more shares of ITW in my account . This will Bring my total to 5 shares.

3 Shares at $135.76  for a total of 407.28. This will add $12 to my annual Fund.

This month has been slow.

Recent 401K Buys and ITW

Here are some of the Buys Happened in my Account this month . I tried to rebalance mt 401k a little bit better.

 



 

This morning I bought 2 shares of ITW at 136.61 in my robinhood account.This is a new Position for me,will be waiting to add more to it ,when new capital is available. This will add Another $8 to my account.

 

 

Recent Buys -T & MMM

With price reduction in T, i added 6 more shares of it to my account.

07/19/18 Bought  1 share of T  at an average price of $31.65 .

07/26/18 Bought  6 shares of T  at an average price of $30.53 . This will add another $12 to my annual Fund.

07/26/18 Bought  1 share of MMM at an average price of $207.47. This is a new position  and  i was waiting for long time to initiate a position in 3M.This will add $5.44 to my fund.

So these New purchases will add another $19.44 to my annual Fund.

I will keep an eye on MMM to add if it reduces in price further.

 

Fundrise Dividend Payout & BUY STWD

This week i received my dividend payout from Fund rise. I received $34.62 into my account and  Compared to April Payout i received an increase of $1.4.



Also i dripped STWD dividend and  got 2 shares from that dividend. This will add another $3.92 to my annual fund.

 

JULY BUY I -PRU

With new Quarter started ,i tried to max my roth ira and with today's funds ,i maxed the contribution.I was trying to find stocks to  invest the funds, Lot of Names  were considered like ED,XCEL,FAST and finally decided to buy PRU. I saw the buy on one other DGI blogger .

After some reading  i initiated  position in this company.This is a new position for me .

I picked up 16 shares of PRU at 95.39 including the commision of 4.95 for a total of $1526.17. Currently yield is 3.77   . This will add another $57.6 to my annual Fund.

 

 

JUNE BUY IV ---NLY

This month is seeing a lot of action in my account . For this Buy no New Funds were added.All the dividends collected in last few months in this account are used to Buy  the stock.

23 Shares of NLY at the rate of 10.65 and 4.95 in commision. This will add another $27.6 to my account.

 

 

BUY -SBUX

This month of June is becoming a busy month for me with new funds investing and  quite a bit of Buy activity.With SBUX dropping more than 10% ,i bought  23 shares of SBUX  to reduce average cost of the share.It was not big position in my account .Earlier i had 26 shares of SBUX at average price of $57.22 .

23 shares at $51.2 for a total of 1179. SBUX recently increased their dividend from 0.30 to 0.36  for an increase of 20%. With the New purchase i will add another $33.12 to my Annual Fund.

I have noticed one other dividend investor loading up on SBUX.

 

 

Recent Purchases T,MSFT,JNJ

With the news of ATT merger approval ,we saw ATT dropped down significantly and this created some buying opportunity and I decided to add few more shares of T into my account . I added 15 shares of T into my account .You might noticed i keep adding T into my account.

15 shares at 32.41 for total of 486.15. This will add another 30 dollars to my annual dividend Fund.

06/15/18	$6.72	Bought 0.067 MSFT @ 100.8883
06/13/18	$13.50	Bought 0.109 JNJ @ 123.5069

Recent Buys T,PG

If you have noticed recently ,most of my funds are being diverted to 401K.I am still adding shares from Drip and some addition of funds.

In last few days i bought  following shares .

3 Shares of T at average of $33.3  .This will add $6 to my annual Fund.

1 Share of PG at average of $73.94 and this already my average price and will add another $2.84

Overall without new funds,i was able to use my dividends and add another $8.84 For the annual Fund.

May 401K Purchases

I am still contributing to 401k ,even though i am not providing updates  regularly.Most of the times its  still the same Funds  that i keep buying . Maybe  in third quarter i will look to see if i need to change  the distribution of the Funds. For the Month of May here is the distribution of my Funds.

In my regular accounts i am mostly dripping from Dividends and  adding small amounts of Funds.

With the Purchase of House i am trying to conserve the funds .

Recent Buy -PEP

For long time i was thinking of buying PEP and now its in price range to buy.

I bought 11 shares of PEP on 5/7.

11 shares at 99.24 =$1091.

This was brought in my IRA account.

This add $40 to the Annual Fund.