Friday, July 2, 2021

July 2nd Dividend Update

Hello all, and welcome back to another great month of dividend investing. In another round of huge moments for me, I made a new record high in dividends, $117.41. This is massive for me. The second month in a row that I achieved more than $100 in dividends. I am finally starting to reach these new highs, and am excited to keep going.

In June, Intel led the way with $21.11 in dividends. Past that, QYLD, HMC, DUK, D, AEP, and O followed with big help. A few of my positions seem to have paid a little early, so I am expecting a bit lower of a dividend in July, but I am hopeful.

QYLD is a newer investment, and this is definitely a bit riskier than a lot of dividend investors would like, but for now, the monthly returns are great, and helping me build my portfolio.

I have upped my investment in Kinder Morgan, Spartan Nash, Xcel Energy, and Walmart. This should help my future growth. But that is all for now.

Keep pushing forward!

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

June 2021 Dividend Update

 Hi all, and welcome to another month of dividend reinvesting. So, in some massive news for me, for the first time ever, I have passed the $100 a month barrier. I have been trying to get to this point for years, and have finally reached it! I am beyond thrilled.

For May, my biggest mover was definitely Verizon (VZ), with a cool $39.69. Procter and Gambler and AT&T (PG, T) both also contributed, and led the way to my record breaking $109.76 in dividends in May. I am excited to keep this going forward, and will hopefully be trying to push my dividends even higher.

There are a few new positions in my portfolio in May, including the risky QYLD. I will be keeping an eye on this, as it is very volatile. I also added Kinder Morgan (KMI) to hopefully add just a little to my dividend outlook. I will say, my portfolio is a little riskier than I would like, but is still doing ok for now. I will be ecstatic when Ford and General Motors brings their dividend back.

I also have a small holding of Doge that I scooped up for $0.04 per coin. It makes me upset that a few years ago, I had grabbed some Doge for $0.002, but I did not hold onto it.

That is all for today. Keep pushing forward!

Monday, May 10, 2021

April/May 2021 Update

Morning everybody. Wow, it has been a long time since I have posted on this blog. I felt it was time that I returned to provide an update. After a long couple years, and some family health issues, time to update my financial journey. The good news in this is that I have not been slouching on my investments. So, let's get into it.

So, over the last year and a half, I have continued to put as much as I can into investing, and have hopefully taken a small step to potential real estate investing. I am doing good of reaching my goal of all stocks giving a minimum of $1 per month in dividends. But, my biggest goal (which was hurt by the cut dividends that happened in 2020) is I want to break that $100 a month in dividends mark. I feel 2021 will definitely be the year I accomplish this (HOORAY!!!!)

So, for April, my biggest provider was definitely Cisco ($31.69). In order to hopefully up my monthly dividends, I have tried to level out my investments to try to provide a similar amount of dividends each month. I have also paid off my car, and am sitting in a good place to continue my journey. I have updated my portfolio and dividends page. Please feel free to look. Until next time, keep pushing forward!

Monday, May 6, 2019

April Dividends

Hi all. I wanted to make sure I updated my monthly dividends for April before I got too busy and forgot to update. So, if you have read my last months post, you know I was on track for a record April increase.

So, in April, I continued moving my portfolio to $1 or 10 shares in each stock. To this end, I purchased a share of GNL for $19.22. I purchased 2 shares of GAIN for an average of $12.41. I added 1 share of ETJ at $9.41. I increased my holding in KBWD by a share for $22.09 and 1 share of BKCC at $6.03.For my two big stocks, I added 1 share of D for $76.27 and 1 share of AEP for $85.02. I am trying to increase my holding of risky stocks (like KBWD, ETJ, GNL and BKCC), but I am also really trying to build my holding of safe stocks (D and AEP). As previously mentioned, as I reach my $1 dividend per stock or 10 shares per stock, I will push harder into safe stocks. I hope to continue building all of those stocks. CSCO was still my largest dividend, as I have it on continuous investment and DRIP.

At this point, I am so close to hitting $100 in a month in 2019, and I really hope to reach that goal. Since last month, I have paid off my largest student loan as well, so I will have more capital to put towards my dividends reinvestment. As always, I hope this helps to show that I am just a normal guy, and that the dream of having passive dividend income is possible for people. I started with a dividend of 31 cents. Now, in April 2019, I made $58.34 just in dividends for a year over year increase of 153.87%. If I can keep this up, I'll hit my goal in no time. But for now, good luck to everyone, and keep pushing forward!


CSCO $22.56
PSEC $1.26
GLAD $0.98
HRZN $1.00
ORC $1.04
AGNC $1.80
O         $0.45
MFA $2.00
ETJ         $0.99
BSJQ $0.97
SOHO $1.25
HPE $0.11
GOOD $0.13
STX $0.63
GE         $0.01
MAIN $0.20
GAIN $0.14
GNL $0.36
GMRE $2.00
MPW $0.25
PPL         $0.41
TWO $4.70
PTMN (KCAP) $9.24
BKCC $1.44
ACRE $0.33
AINV $2.25
DOC $0.46
UNIT $0.05
KBWD $0.63
LTC         $0.38
PFF         $0.18
SDIV $0.14

Friday, April 5, 2019

February and March Dividends

Hi everybody.

I wanted to catch up and post some new and exciting updates. Although, probably the first thing you will notice, is I haven't posted for a while, and completely missed my February update. Well, in the hopes of catching up a little, I will post a few small pieces about that.

In February, I continued to just work on some of my holdings, and made a nice little dividend income of $38.01. That worked out to a nice year over year of 90.91%. I like that growth. Sorry there is a lack of information on that, I didn't want this post to be huge. A lot of the companies are similar to previous months, with my two biggest companies being Ford and Intel.

For March 2019, My dividends were much lower than last year. Due to the paying off of some student loans, I had sold some stock. So this year, I had $56.24 in dividends, for a year over year of....wait for it..... 6.05%. I knew it would be low, so this doesn't hurt too much. And I have since rebuilt my portfolio, so next year will see a large improvement for dividends. But for the good, I paid off my car, and another student loan in March. I am now down to two student loans, and hope to have them paid off this year. With this payoff, I had some capital to put forth into catching up some stocks. In keeping in line with my goal of getting all my stocks to 10 shares/$1 of dividends when they are paid, I beefed up my portfolio a bit. This is making a large difference already, seeing as my scheduled April dividends are already 128%, and will probably go a little higher still as well. But we can look at that next year. For now, my March 2019 dividend breakdown:

F       $26.86
INTC $10.73
PSEC $1.26
GLAD $0.98
HRZN $0.20
ORC $1.04
AGNC $1.80
O         $0.45
KR       $0.14
OCSL $1.14
ETJ         $0.99
NAVI $1.28
BSJQ $1.33
ARCC $0.42
GOOD $0.13
CTL $0.50
F         $0.15
INTC $1.89
AEP $1.34
MAIN $0.20
GAIN $0.14
GNL $0.18
GM       $0.38
D      $0.92
DEA $0.26
PFE   $0.36
KBWD $0.47
LTC  $0.38
PFF  $0.18
SDIV $0.14

Nothing crazy to look at, but progress none the less. I think that's all for now. Until next time, keep pushing forward!
    -New2Dividends

Friday, February 1, 2019

January 2019 Dividend Income

Here we are once again. I am rapid firing these posts. That will probably slow down soon, but for now, I wanted to get a jump on 2019, and post my first round of dividends. So without further ado, here are my January 2019 dividends.

So for starters, I will mention (and I should update my portfolio page), I do not include my retirement or Roth IRA account dividends here (at least for now). That may change soon, but for now, I am just disclosing what my personal decisions have done for me.

The big one this month is my direct investment (usually tends to be). I hold a small stake in Cisco for my direct investments, and it payed out $19.84 in January for dividends. That's a good base to start on.

From there, my smaller investments take over, and combined, they pump my dividends up another $18.13, for a total of $37.97 That's $37.97 payed in January 2019, a year over year increase of 110.48% for January. This is a good start.

I will give a small heads up, my March this year will be hurting in YoY, as last year, I had to sell a few stocks to payoff some student loans, but I think that will help in the long run. But for now, I will go ahead and put my usual info below. Please take a peak, and let me know what you think of my January dividends. And as always, Keep pushing forward!

-New2Dividends

CSCO $19.84
PSEC $1.26
GLAD $0.42
HRZN $0.20
ORC $1.04
AGNC $0.54
O      $0.22
MFA $0.80
ETJ   $0.99
BSJQ $1.27
SOHO $1.25
HPE $0.11
GOOD $0.13
STX $0.63
GE    $0.01
MAIN $0.20
GAIN $0.14
GNL $0.18
HIHO $0.15
GMRE $2.00
MPW $0.25
PPL  $0.41
TWO $1.41
KCAP $1.20
BKCC $0.54
ACRE $0.31
AINV $0.45
DOC $0.46
UNIT $0.60
KBWD $0.44
LTC  $0.38
SDIV $0.14

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Purchases and made since December 31, 2018

So, I said I wanted to post on my increases and purchases, and here we are. I wanted to share what I have done recently to increase my dividends going forward. So starting December 31, 2018, I made a few purchases to that end. To start out, I made a few what I would call riskier investments.

I purchased 10 shares of ETJ for about $8.46 per share, for a total of $84.59. This worked to increase my forward dividend $9.20.

Next was another risky investment. I purchased 8 shares of GLAD for $8.54 per share, for a total of $68.32. This increased my forward dividend by $6.72.

Following that on my list were 7 shares of AGNC for $17.99 per share, for a total of $125.93. But this purchase did help increase my forward dividend by $15.12.

More risky shares to follow, with 2 shares of TWO for $26.04 ($13.02 a share), 1 share of GAIN for $9.49 and 10 BSJQ shares for $235.28. These increased my FD by $3.76, $.72 and $18 respectively.

I did have some stable stocks purchased. I bought 1 share of O this month for $64.74 to increase FD by $2.65.

I also bought a share of AEP for $73.80 and 2 shares of ABBV for 180.07. These worked to increase my FD by $2.68 and $8.56 respectively.

Overall, I made $868.26 worth of purchases (which is extremely high for me, and not likely to happen again for a while) to increase my forward dividend by $67.42. This is huge for me. As noted, I do have some risky investments here. REITs are a base for me right now, as they pay monthly and have a nice dividend. But the risk involved could come back to bite me. REITs could reduce very quickly. It is why I try to find balanced stocks to pair with high risk stocks. As time goes forward, those balanced stocks will overtake my REITs, reducing my overall risk.

I am still working on what I mentioned before, trying to buy less stock that is new to my portfolio, and trying to get my current positions to pay $1 per month (when dividends are paid) or 10 shares per stock. Once all my stocks do that, I will move on to purchasing new positions. I think Dominion or AEP are going to be my next goals. I also have something to work on in the near future, but I will post on that once that task is complete. Sorry if this post is jumpy. I am typing in between being really busy.

Keep pushing forward!

-New2Dividends

July 2nd Dividend Update

Hello all, and welcome back to another great month of dividend investing. In another round of huge moments for me, I made a new record high ...