2022 January Dividends

January is  in books  and this month i received $423 in dividends for the month .Compared to previous years some of the biggest increases were from Fundrise, ITW and DG. I was doing recurring investments in DG and ITW last year.

	2021	2022
WMT	9.23	9.51	0.28
MO	25.98	28.72	2.74
LADR	4.67	4.83	0.16
O	6.24	6.75	0.51
CSCO	21.55	22.6	1.05
VTR	15.15	15.39	0.24
BNS	40.8	46.94	6.14
MO	21.5	25.95	4.45
ITW	7.24	15.54	8.3
STWD	25.32	27.45	2.13
DG	3.6	7.67	4.07
CSCO	10.08	11.03	0.95
IRM	6.17	6.35	0.18
PEP	11.69	13.07	1.38
MO	7.99	9.46	1.47
AGNC	6.17	6.54	0.37
STWD	56.24	58.78	2.54
CINF	33.53	36.03	2.5
NLY	12	12.62	0.62
JPM	9.9	11.2	1.3
Fundrise	30.3	46.73	16.43
	365.35	423.16	57.81

Compared to all my Previous January this is the second highest and compared to last year its an increase of  18%.

2022 Dividend Goal: This year my Goal is 14K in dividends ,Last year I was able to get 12.5K in Dividends ,so this year i need another 1500 in dividends to reach my goal. I am hoping to achieve this with New investments and dividend increases.

With January dividends this stands at 3% of my goal.

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 .

2021 December Options

 Final month of the year is in books and i received around $420 in options  and for the year i  received more than $4.5k

As month of my months i was  dealing with AMC,LCID,HOOD.

Date	Call	Option Premium	Notes
27-Dec	AMC 12/31/2021 Call $50	9
27-Dec	LCID 12/31/2021 $34 put	75
20-Dec	LCID 12/23/2021 $35 put	61
6-Dec	LCID 12/10/2021 $35 put	115
13-Dec	AMC $20 PUT 12/17 SELL	82
13-Dec	HOOD $18 PUT12/17 SELL	49
17-Dec	AMC 12/23/2021 Call $50	30

None of  the calls or puts were assigned this month .Most of the options income is reinvested into dividend stocks .

January	64
February	485
March	556
April	274
April	204
May	154
June	216
July	424
August	354
September	448
October	280
November	624
December	421
	4504

This year turned out to be decent one for me from options point. If I can repeat this in 2022 it will be good.

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 .

2021 November Options

 This Month  has been a good one for me for options. This month again its mostly selling covered call on AMC and Cash secured put for LCID, this generated around $600 for this month and with this $600,i crossed 4k in options income for the year.

Date	Call	Option Premium	Notes
8-Nov	AMC 11/12/2021 Call $51	146
1-Nov	LCID 11/12/2021 $31 put	100
15-Nov	AMC 11/26/2021 Call $50	104
15-Nov	LCID 11/19/2021 $40 put	108
22-Nov	LCID 11/26/2021 $44 put	50
29-Nov	LCID 12/3/2021 $45 put	52
29-Nov	AMC 12/3/2021 Call $50	64

January	64
February	485
March	556
April	274
April	204
May	154
June	216
July	424
August	354
September	448
October	280
November	624
December
	4083

I am expecting to cross or get closer to 4.5k in options income for the year.

2021 November Dividend Income

 Wow Month 11 is  in book and almost another 25 days for new year. This Month i received $596 in dividends and this a new record for November.

As you see I added ABBV early this year and VZ in last few months and this is starting to make impact. and compared to last year to this year ,I  initiated a new position in BMY and these comprised my biggest increase.

Compared to last year ,my dividends increased  by 23%,one caveat is  last  year UL  paid in November and this year they are paying in December.

	2020	2021
VZ	16.94	36.95	20.01
T	52.52	56.4	3.88
CVS	23.5	25.69	2.19
MA	0.52	1.01	0.49
WRK	7.05	8.96	1.91
SBUX	13.12	14.51	1.39
DE	19.43	26.91	7.48
BMY	0	29.4	29.4
AGNC	6.17	6.44	0.27
GD	21.42	29.82	8.4
NNN	3.28	3.79	0.51
HRL	10.96	11.67	0.71
ABBV	61.36	75.53	14.17
AAPL	82.52	88.84	6.32
CAT	52.77	57.41	4.64
AMP	15.71	17.22	1.51
SBUX	9.7	10.64	0.94
RY	8.38	10.26	1.88
T	52.52	55.44	2.92
O	6.23	6.41	0.18
PG	20.86	23.23	2.37
	484.96	596.53	111.57

2021 Dividend Goal: I received 87%  of my 11k in dividends for this year and With this month dividends ,I crossed my 2020 whole year  Dividends. Will be interesting to see  where i will land  in whole dividends received.