2020 May Dividend Income Report

May is completed .19 Companies Paid me Dividends this Month and i added few companies last month before the ex dividend date and Sold them off. RY,BMO are the examples for this.

Total dividends Received this Month are $553.79.With  ATT leading  the way with $104 and some more big hitters like AAPL,RY,ABBV. This  is like some one working 55 hours at $10/hr and Almost receiving $17 a day for the whole month.

Compared to 2019 this month dividends went up by 47%.

2020 Dividend Goal: With this months dividends i reached 27% of the Goal.

How did you Guys do this month.

Recent Buy --HON,ED,AMP

Since the last 1 month i have been slowly adding some purchases.
I added most of these before the  ex dividend date ,So i should get dividend for this quarter.

These will add another $301 in dividends.If none of them Cut dividends in next few months.

Expired Options -SPCE

Since i bought shares of SPCE at $38,i have been writing covered calls for the stock to recover some losses. So far  I have written 3 covered calls and all have expired.

SPCE $58 CALL SELL 2/28 this  netted me $340 as the option expired.

SPCE $43 CALL SELL 4/17 this netted me another $15.

SPCE$35 CALL SELL  5/8 this added  another $43 in premium .

All these calls helped me recover $398  and exactly another $1400 to recover either via stock price or options.

I will keep writing these covered  calls as long as they make sense.

These trades helped me understand options little better and i am looking at writing covered calls for some other positions in my account.

Stay Safe

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.

Dividend Increases -PG,SO,JNJ

Some of the companies in my account announced dividend hikes even during this epic season.
PG,JNJ,SO all announced hikes ,with JNJ being the biggest at 6.32 %

With these increases  they add another another $23 to my account. This is like having additional 11 ATT shares producing dividends.

JNJ	15.912
SO	2.8672
PG	4.2112

Total dividend hikes in my account so far are.

Company	Dividends Added
CVX	10.16
O	1.5
ADM	0.76
PRU	6.672
GILD	15.8
MMM	2.88
AFL	0.822
TROW	28.896
CSCO	2.88
PEP	3.0861
HD	0.56
KO	0.892
WMT	2.04
JNJ	15.912
SO	2.8672
PG	4.2112

Total hikes received is close to $100 for the year.

Buys -VTR,GD,AFL,T

Since the last 15 days i have been adding in small quantities different companies.
Here are the buys.
Mostly averaging down on the companies i own.
Total funds invested 2500 and this will add $149 in dividends if no one of them experiences any cuts.
I think i am done adding T unless it falls to low 25 range.

2020 March Dividend Report

So much stuff happened in the last 1 month since my previous dividend report to this one.
Most of the world is under some kind of lockdown due to the virus and its becoming tough to stay inside .I haven't stepped out of my house since March 24th for any shopping.

This month quite a few companies paid me dividends and Total Dividends received this month are $1182.28 . Out of this Retirement accounts contributed 65% of the dividends . Its like receiving $40 daily.This is my dividend Distribution.In taxable account my biggest dividend Payers are BBL.

Compared to 2019  this year dividend income is up 16%. and this is second successive year that March dividend income crossed 1k.  AVGO,DFS are some of my newest dividend payers.

2020 Dividend Goal.
So Far i received $1998.54 in dividends for Q1,This is 18.1% of my goal of  11k in dividends .