Thursday, July 5, 2018

June 2018 Dividends

So, it is coming to one of my favorite parts of the month. It's time to look back and see how the June dividends did. In June, my biggest earners were Ford and Intel, with $19.21 and $13.40 respectively. Below those, you can see my usual build of monthly dividend stocks, and other small positions I hold. This is a good month though, as NAVI and D payed out dividends in June. after the dividend, I sold my shares of HCFT and used them for other stocks with better outlooks. My total for June 2018 came out to $44.43. This is 115% percent what I earned June 2017, and I am extremely proud of that. If I can continue this trend, I can end 2018 with 100% YoY over my 2017 portfolio.

Unfortunately, due to some other circumstances, I had to sell about 20 shares of my Intel stock. I used it to pay down some of my personal debt, which will help me increase my future capital that I can use to increase my forward dividends. I am going to try my hardest to make up what I lost, and try to continue my YoY gains in 2018. Wish me luck. I am excited to see what others have done this month. As always, keep pushing towards FI, and thanks for reading.

-New2Dividends

P.S. You may notice I have two different listing of both F (and soon INTC). This is because I hold shares in both my direct investments and my portfolio separately.

F - $19.21
INTC - $13.40
PSEC - $1.26
GLAD - $0.28
HRZN - $0.10
ORC - $0.99
AGNC - $0.54
O - $0.22
KR - $0.13
OCSL - $1.14
ETJ - $0.08
NAVI - $1.28
ARCC - $0.38
GOOD - $0.13
CTL - $1.08
F - $0.15
AEP - $0.62
MAIN - $0.47
GAIN - $0.07
GNL - $0.18
GM - $0.38
D - $0.84
HCFT (Formerly OAKS) - $0.04
DEA - $0.26
PFE - $0.34
BSJI - $0.06
KBWD - $0.29
LTC - $0.19
PFF - $0.19
SDIV - $0.13

Friday, June 29, 2018

Strategy for building my portfolio

Hi all, I wanted to get in a quick update post before June finished, and I post the June dividend results. After looking at my portfolio, and building a nice set of stocks, I looked through, and realized that I own very few stocks with more than 1 share. I am diversified (granted, with a lot of REITs), but I do not have much holding in many companies.

So I put together a strategy of instead of building a lot of one off stocks, I will concentrate on building my portfolio to include at least 10 shares of each stock. As a secondary, I am also deciding that if my stocks are low dividend, I will try to get it to a $1 payout instead of 10 shares.

My first purchase to this end was 8 shares of GMRE, to bring it up to 10 shares. This should bring in $2 each quarter, so a cool $8 in forward dividends. I am also working on GLAD, which due to their $.07 per share a month payout, I will need to own at least 15 shares, to bring in $1.05 a month, which is $12.60 in forward dividends. I only own 6 shares in GLAD now, so I have some work to do.

I currently own 11 shares in ORC, so I will buy one more, since they decreased their dividend to $.09 per share a month. I also need 2 more shares of NAVI to bring it to 10 shares. The biggest companies I will have a hard time doing this for is D and AEP, as they are bigger companies and will cost a pretty penny to bring within my goal range. As I have stated when I started this blog, I am just a normal guy, so the money to bring about this goal will be a slow process. But I hope to keep pushing forward and reach FI.

P.S. I finally got my portfolio page up!


Thanks for reading,

New2Dividends

Monday, June 4, 2018

May 2018 Dividends

Hello again. Sorry, as this is only my second post. I am trying to get out update posts, but am very new to blogging. I will try to put up my portfolio soon, but for now, it is time to look at my May dividends.

My four primary stocks that I have an automatic recurring investments are Cisco, Ford, Intel and Verizon. In May, Verizon payed the only dividend of these. My Verizon dividend was $17.04. The rest of my dividends are from amalgamations that I have put together over time:
VZ - $17.04
PSEC - $1.26
GLAD - $0.28
HRZN - $0.10
ORC - $0.99
AGNC - $0.54
O - $0.22
T - $0.50
GOOD - $0.13
MAIN - $0.19
GAIN - $0.07
GNL - $0.18
TAIT - $0.08
OHI - $1.32
OAKS - $0.04
CZNC - $0.27
KBWD - $0.30

So my total May 2018 dividends were.....$23.70. Woooooo!! I know to many it may not seem like much, but to me, this is great. I started out in mid late 2015. My first dividend was October 2015. So in May 2016, I made $2.72. The year after that in May 2017, I made $11.04. So now, for May 2018 to be $23.70, that is a 114.67% increase over May 2017. So that is substantial. Like I said, I am a normal guy. Nothing special. So I like seeing how this can build over the year. Hopefully, I will do even better next year. Talk to you soon.

-New2Dividends

Thursday, May 24, 2018

A little about me

So, I should probably start this first post with a little about me. I wanted to start a blog about my journey into the stock market, and dividends to hopefully give some inspiration to people who are like me. People who are not finance people. I'm just a 27 year old guy with a normal 8 to 5 job. I am not in finance, I don't have rental properties, or a 6 figure income. I scrape by with a middle salary job (Think about $52,000 a year, $32,000 after taxes, and that is before mortgage, bills, students loans, car loans, etc). But I wanted to start and look at the possibility of retiring when I am 45. We will see how this goes. I started investing about 3 and a half years ago, and remember my first month of dividends. I received 31 cents. Ever since then, I have been building up. It is not a quick thing. I have built up slowly, piece by piece. Now, as of last month, I received $22.98 in dividends (more on that later). Like I said, a slow build. I definitely have a comfortable job, but by no means am I rich. That is the point of this blog. Just a regular old guy seeing what I can do. Thanks for reading this first post. Hopefully more to come.

-New2Dividends

July 2nd Dividend Update

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