Recent Buys--TROW,CSCO,SO,WMT,BMY

 With New year started ,i added few shares in existing Positions

This will add another $97 in dividends for my annual dividends.

I am looking adding AVGO,AFL  in upcoming days .

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.

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.

Symbol	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 Hikes -D,AFL,WFC

Following Companies in my account announced dividend Hikes.

Increase of Dividend in D increased my dividends by $7.47

WFC increased their dividend by .02c/share and this added another $6.15 in my account .

and the small increase in AFL by .01c/share added another 80 cents to the account.

ADM increased their dividend from 0.335 to 0.35  and this added another $1.14 to my account

GILD increases their dividend from 0.57 to 0.63 and this adds another $8.16 to my account.

So overall all these increases added $23.73 to my account.

 

March BUY- AFL

Month of March started with a Buy for me.I purchased AFL .I made this purchase in IRA account.I don't have a insurance stock in My portfolio. I have been waiting to buy for sometime and now the stock is about to split 2:1 I decided to buy it.And possibly my first limit order purchase.

10 shares of AFL at 88.00 for a total of 880 and 4.95 in commission.

This will add $20 to my annual Dividend fund.