May Dividend Update

This months dividend income improved to $142.53 and is more than a 50% increase from last May. I only made one purchase this month with was Lorillard (LO) , which should help add to my June totals next month.

DESCRIPTION	SYMBOL	AMOUNT
ORDINARY DIVIDEND	MMT	11.67
QUALIFIED DIVIDEND (PG)	PG	20.45
QUALIFIED DIVIDEND (PBCT)	PBCT	36.24
ORDINARY DIVIDEND (O)	O	18.12
QUALIFIED DIVIDEND (CLX)	CLX	12.16
QUALIFIED DIVIDEND (WGL)	WGL	16.8
QUALIFIED DIVIDEND (GIS)	GIS	10.89
QUALIFIED DIVIDEND (T)	T	16.2

May Dividend Total - $142.53

Captains Picks

I'll try to add some of the posts every now and then which I find useful or interesting. Here's the batch for this week ....

Pepsico, Inc. (PEP) Dividend Stock Analysis - Dividend Growth Stocks

Book Review: The Vigilant Investor - Dividend Growth Machine

Attractively Valued Dividend Stocks - iStock Analyst

Equities: Unlimited Upside With Limited Downside - Dividend Mantra

Not all P/E Ratios are created equal - Dividend Growth Investor

Colgate-Palmolive (CL) Dividend Stock Analysis - The Div-Net

Golden age of dividends is dawning - Yahoo Finance

April Dividend Update

 

My biggest dividend total so far, it seems like each month I'm getting larger and larger payments. Gotta love that. You'll notice that I have a lot of  "Ordinary Dividends" on this list. This is because I have a large number of REIT's (Real Estate Investment Trusts) this month, two of which (O and MMT) happen to pay monthly. Typically your average stock will issue a qualified dividend, however REIT's issue ordinary dividends. The difference is how they are treated as taxable income. An ordinary dividend is taxed at a higher rate around 33% as opposed to a qualified dividend which is taxed a lower rate around 15% I believe. This is something to consider before buying any REIT stock.

DESCRIPTION	SYMBOL	AMOUNT
ORDINARY DIVIDEND (MMT)	MMT	11.97
QUALIFIED DIVIDEND (SYY)	SYY	18.48
ORDINARY DIVIDEND (HTS)	HTS	38.5
ORDINARY DIVIDEND (O)	O	18.12
QUALIFIED DIVIDEND (PNY)	PNY	11.16
QUALIFIED DIVIDEND (MO)	MO	26.4
QUALIFIED DIVIDEND (WMT)	WMT	15.98
ORDINARY DIVIDEND (UHT)	UHT	31

April Dividend Total - $171.61

March Dividend Update

Approaching the $100 mark this month too !

DESCRIPTION	SYMBOL	AMOUNT
ORDINARY DIVIDEND (MMT)	MMT	12.28
ORDINARY DIVIDEND (O)	O	18.09
QUALIFIED DIVIDEND (AVA)	AVA	17.69
QUALIFIED DIVIDEND (JNJ)	JNJ	10.37
QUALIFIED DIVIDEND (INTC)	INTC	39.83

March Dividend Total = $98.26

Feburary Dividend Update

 

Feburary dividends listed below. Note the foreign tax on SJR, which is the reason I sold it shortly after this in an effort to simplify my taxes as much as possible at the end of the year. I also decided to sell my position in KMP for similar reasons. Those funds would be put to good use in another position. Had I know then what I know now about foreign stocks and partnership distributions I would never have made those purchases. By no means do I think those are bad stocks at all, in fact quite the contrary but I'm the type of person who hates complications and selling these will make it less stressful for me come tax time at the very least.

DESCRIPTION	SYMBOL	AMOUNT
ORDINARY DIVIDEND (MMT)	MMT	12.28
FOREIGN TAX WITHHELD (SJR)	SJR	-0.59
QUALIFIED DIVIDEND (SJR)	SJR	3.93
ORDINARY DIVIDEND (O)	O	18.09
QUALIFIED DIVIDEND (PG)	PG	10.12
PARTNERSHIP DISTRIBUTION (KMP)	KMP	38.7
QUALIFIED DIVIDEND (WGL)	WGL	16
QUALIFIED DIVIDEND (T)	T	16.2
QUALIFIED DIVIDEND (GIS)	GIS	10.89

Feburary Dividend Amount - $126.21

Janurary Dividend Update

 

I'm going to begin my entries here with my Jan 2013 dividend totals below. This month I only had four entries as some of my stocks are right on the edge of this month and next month. This will change a bit as I made more purchases.

DESCRIPTION	SYMBOL	AMOUNT
ORDINARY DIVIDEND (MMT)	MMT	12.28
ORDINARY DIVIDEND (HTS)	HTS	38.5
ORDINARY DIVIDEND (O)	O	8.8
QUALIFIED DIVIDEND (MO)	MO	26.4

Total Dividend Amount - $85.98

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Blog initiated ! On this site I will be tracking my progress of dividend investing. My journey began in late 2012 and I've been slowly learning as I go.