September has historically been one of the higher payout months. Total dividend income for September 2016 was $735.76, an increase of 15.7% over last September. Total dividend income for September 2015 was $635.77 and in September 2014 I received $312.11. I like this trend! Options: None currently open. Symbol Dividend...
With the stock sales and the dividend cuts from KMI and BBL, my forward annual dividends had significantly decreased by the end of February. In somewhat better news, the sales also left me with some free cash. Of that cash, roughly $3600 needs to be held in the account for...
Since I haven’t add much time to give updates as they happen, I’m going to include February’s transactions here. Despite not looking like it, I was actually quite busy this last month. As a reference, my dividend income at the start of the month was $5313. In my Roth IRA,...
While I don’t talk about sales of stock that often, I recently discussed a number of sales for tax purposes. I had sold the majority of my positions in BP, CAT, and IBM at the end of October. At the end of November, I re-purchased these three companies. My hope...
Sales Sales of dividend generating stocks usually don’t happen too often for those of us investing through this methodology. We hope that we do enough research and invest in companies that will be able to sustain paying dividends. These companies generally have historically paid dividends through the bull and bear...
On 9/4/2015 I bought-to-close two LEAPS on JCP with a strike price of $5. These were set to expire on Jan 15th, 2016 and were in the money, since JCP stock was over $5. I purchased these LEAPS for 4.58 each on 3/7/2014. My hope was that JCP would not...
March has historically been one of the higher payout months. This March did not disappoint with contributions coming from 18 of my 30 stocks. Total dividend income for March 2015 was $617.32. In March 2014 I received $258.07; in March 2013, I received $103.64; and in March 2012, I received...
I last purchased BBL at 52.30/share back in November. I thought that price was a good entry point. After I recently got paid, I knew it was going to something that had dropped recently so that I could lower my cost basis. It was a slightly difficult choice between a...
There’s been a few companies that one of my favorite investing blog authors, Tim McAleenan Jr. of The Conservative Income Investor, recently wrote about. One of his posts was talking about how cheap the diversified materials producer, BHP Billiton, had gotten. The price has declined from the low $70s in...
