2023 February Dividend Report

One more Month is in Books and time is flying Quickly. This month i received $678 in  dividends which is  good as this is after huge dividend Cuts from This Cut was countered by increased position in VZ and small dividend hikes across the Board.

	2021	2022	2023	difference
T	53.56	56.57	30.83	-25.74
AAPL	82.52	88.97	93.56	4.59
PG	20.86	25.11	27	1.89
O	6.24	6.77	7.65	0.88
MA	0.8	1.72	6.62	4.9
T	53.51	58.59	32.21	-26.38
VZ	17.13	46.72	65.95	19.23
CVS	25.2	28.42	31.96	3.54
WRK	7.08	9.01	15.81	6.8
BMY	0	48.34	52.33	3.99
GD	23.1	30	32.45	2.45
AMP	15.71	17.28	19.11	1.83
RY	8.79	11.79	12.29	0.5
CAT	52.77	57.72	63.75	6.03
HRL	11.55	15.6	16.85	1.25
ABBV	67.6	85.65	93.43	7.78
NNN	3.63	3.83	4.17	0.34
AGNC	6.17	6.59	7.95	1.36
DE	19.43	26.99	31.205	4.215
SBUX	13.18	14.94	19.9	4.96
SBUX	9.7	11.18	13.3675	2.1875
	488.83	651.79	678.3925	26.6025

2023 Dividend Goal: This year the Goal is to receive $17K in dividends and with his months dividends included I reached 6% of the goal.

2023 Dividend Hikes and Cuts

 This Year has been to Good start regarding dividend increases 13 Companies have increased dividends in   my portfolio with HD having big impact.

Shares	Divided Increases
CINF	14.0472
CVX	10.5318
ADM	4.438
ED	4.3016
TROW	5.12
GILD	3.9392
UPS	4.14
HD	19.1744
CSCO	3.9312
WMT	0.74324
PEP	6.9138
KO	1.9824
DE	5.2

 This will add $84 in dividends.

Unfortunately I had a dividend cut and this impacted in big way. VFC cut its dividend from $0.51 to  $0.30 and this decreased  my dividends by $48 and overall dividend increased by only $36.

Shares	Shares	Hike	Divided Increases
CINF	58.53	0.06	14.0472
CVX	29.255	0.09	10.5318
ADM	22.19	0.05	4.438
ED	53.77	0.02	4.3016
TROW	64	0.02	5.12
GILD	49.24	0.02	3.9392
UPS	11.5	0.09	4.14
HD	29.96	0.16	19.1744
CSCO	98.28	0.01	3.9312
WMT	18.581	0.01	0.74324
PEP	15.03	0.115	6.9138
KO	24.78	0.02	1.9824
DE	26	0.05

2023 January Dividends

 New year started and 1 more month in books. This Month i received $465  in dividends .Except for my     Fundrise dividends all others increased. Biggest increase came from MO and STWD and i think this   due  to re investing dividends    and adding few stocks in last few days.  This is 10% increase compared      to Jan 2022.

	2022	2023	Difference
WMT	9.51	10.41	0.9
MO	28.72	32.35	3.63
LADR	4.83	6.46	1.63
O	6.75	7.62	0.87
CSCO	22.6	25.11	2.51
VTR	15.39	15.97	0.58
BNS	46.94	47.4375	0.4975
MO	25.95	34.17	8.22
ITW	15.54	17.1	1.56
STWD	27.45	29.89	2.44
DG	7.67	11.12	3.45
CSCO	11.03	12.24	1.21
IRM	6.35	6.67	0.32
PEP	13.07	17.29	4.22
MO	9.46	10.68	1.22
AGNC	6.54	7.86	1.32
STWD	58.78	64.05	5.27
CINF	36.03	40.39	4.36
NLY	12.62	13.8225	1.2025
JPM	11.2	11.5525	0.3525
Fundrise	46.73	43.51	-3.22
	423.16	465.7025	42.5425

2023 GOAL: This is year  the Goal for dividends is 17K ,This is  a stretch goal and I would really  like to achieve this and this will be like 17% increase compared to my 2022 Dividend Goal.

2022 December Dividend Report

 This is the final Report for Year 2022 and this month i received $3200 and with this i was able to cross my goal of $14k in Dividends. This is a new record  for a single month ,first time i crossed 3000 in single month.

Symbol	2022		2022
AVGO	38.07	LMT	22.71
GILD	40.46	HD	54.04
LMT	77.8525	MMM	84.68
D	16.35	ADM	8.91
VFC	28.75	WFC	7.43
KTB	3.63	FLO	13.19
PRU	25.97	GILD	35.95
RDSA	0	AVGO	90.57
RDSB	31.38	V	11.38
ED	42.14	SO	27.2
HSY	32.58	JNJ	36.54
COST	0	CVX	41.54
COST	0	MSFT	11.14
FLO	21.04	TGT	37.09
UL	45.29	MMM	10.85
TGT	28.81	O	7.58
AGNC	7.77	KO	10.83
LYB	29.81	BTG	7.4
AMGN	51.56	UNP	65.43
JNJ	60.09	TROW	76
HON	26.72	AVGO	18.952
DFS	111.06	RERGX	172.15
DFS	19.18	VIMAX	264.56
UPS	17.38	VTMGX	302.3
AFL	18.81	VMCPX	425.47
KR	6.5	VSCPX	428.41
WFC	29.55	FXAIX	118.67
	810.7525		2390.972
			3201.7245

Compared to 2021 Dividends Biggest increase in dividends received is from HD it went from $6 to $54,as  i have been adding HD in 2022.

Since i started tracking dividends , total dividends received by me are $69912 . This helped me cross my 2022 Goal of 14K in dividends .

Dec-19	Dec-20	Dec-21	Jan-22
2688	1677	2881	3201.7245

Compared to last year its 11% increase in dividends.

Overall it was Good year for dividends for me.