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 .

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 and Dividend Hike -CVS,PABGX

These are purchases in my retirement account and taxable account.

401K Buys

VFIAX:  .99  Shares at $236.62 will add close to 4 dollars in dividend

PABGX: 0.83  share @93.95 will add close to 40 cents in dividend.

VIMAX: 0.4233 Shares @ 184.54 will add around 1 dollars in dividends.

VSIAX:  2.81 shares @ 55.42  will add another $ 2.5 in dividends.

VTMGX: 16.55 shares @14.16 will add another $6 in  dividends.

A total of 750 dollars was invested this  period in 401K and additional 200 in robinhood.

Also Added small position in CVS  ,3 shares at $75.08 .This will add another  $6 to my annual fund.

Visa increased their dividend and this add another 3 dollars in dividend for my annual fund.This is like investing close to $160 in VTMGX.

This will add a total of $23 to my annual Fund.