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. 

Recent Purchases --ABBV,LMT,GILD

 Slowly I have been deploying some cash to my dividend payee stocks.

I have picked ABBV,LMT and GILD in my account. In  last month i have deployed around $730  to add almost 5 shares of ABBV and 2 shares of GILD.

This added another $35 in dividends to my account.

What are you Guys adding since the Market is presenting some chances to add stocks.

Recent Buys ----MO,BNS

 I have been on slow down for buys. Some of  my buys are CSCO,BNS,MO.

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.

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.

Symbol	Dividends	Account
MO	7.81	R
NLY	13.63	R
CXW	25.06	R
STWD	56.16	R
AGNC	8.23	R
FXAIX	94.1	R
IRM	4.5	R
KO	9.17
LADR	6.24
WMT	9.23
VTR	40.95
O	5.97
CSCO	30.91
BNS	34.05
STWD	19.68
ITW	6.42
DG	3.6
MO	32.1
Fundrise	32.93
	440.74

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%.

Apr-16	Apr-17	Apr-18	Apr-19	Apr-20
132.05	194.64	231.2	339.11	440.74

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.

More Buys--T,VTR,WFC,MO,DFS

With so much Variation in market ,i am buying shares from the dividends received ,No New Funds added other small capital to round of the shares.IT almost looks like i buy and the price goes down more.

Run Date	Symbol	Security Description	Quantity	Price ($)
03/26/2020	BA	BOEING CO COM USD5.00	0.682	175.89
03/25/2020	DFS	DISCOVER FINL SVCS	0.261	38.73
03/25/2020	DFS	DISCOVER FINL SVCS	1	38.57
03/20/2020	MO	ALTRIA GROUP INC	0.296	35.03
03/20/2020	MO	ALTRIA GROUP INC	1	35.02
03/20/2020	PRU	PRUDENTIAL FINL INC	0.175	43.91
03/20/2020	PRU	PRUDENTIAL FINL INC	1	43.91
03/16/2020	WFC	WELLS FARGO CO NEW COM	0.851	27.78

03/25/2020  10:43:57

Bought 3 VTR @ 27.46

-82.38

03/23/2020  09:51:24

Bought 1 T @ 26.73

-26.73

recent Buys

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.

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.

 

 

2019 October Dividend Report

Here are the dividends received for the month of October 2019.16 Companies Paid me dividends this Months.I Crossed $300 for  October month for the first time. Total Dividends received are $329.61,its almost like receiving $10 everyday.



Compared to last year its increased like 60% .



 

Almost reached $6k Dividends  just $36 short.Current Projections show i will receive another $1600 in next 2 month,assuming no new additions in the my stocks with the total coming to 7.5k ,But will see some Dividends from New 401K  contributions.

So how did everyone do for the october Month.

 

Recent Purchases ---MO,MMM

October  provided some chances to buy  stocks.

On 10/1/19  1 share of MMM was purchased at 158.26

10/3/19  2 shares of MMM were purchased at $151.46.

10/3 /19  8 shares of MO @ 40.40  were purchased.

 

These purchases will bring my total MMM shares to 17 . Both these purchases will add another $43 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.

 

 

Recent Transactions

This week i made the following additions and subtractions to my account.

Buys:

7/15 1 Share of MO purchased $48.95

7/16 1 Share of WFC purchased at 45.70.

7/19 15 Shares of ABBV at $68.8 . This will bring total shares to 52 in my account . With this purchase i maxed out Roth IRA. This stock is the pick of DGI community now 1.

All these purchases will add another $69 in dividends to my account.

I will pause Buying for few weeks ,to get things in order.

 

Recent Buy --KR,MO,MMM

In the last few Days i added the following Positions in my account. All of them are existing ones ,KR is one of my smallest position .

14 Shares of KR added at $22.29 including commision of $4.95 .This will bring total shares to 24 shares and Will add another $8.96 to my account.

1 Share of MMM at $169.9 ,will bring total shares to 10 . This will add another $5.76 to my account.

2 Shares of MO at $48.9 will bring total shares in all accounts to 31.   This will add another $ 6.40

I will be watching ABBV for final purchase in my roth IRA account.  All these purchase will add another $20 to the account. These small purchases are slowly making impact on the account.

 

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

 

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.