Money and Finance
Somehow the first 5 months of the year are already over and done with so it's time for my favorite monthly update, the dividend update. May wasn't a special record setting month by any means but it was a 37% improvement over February 2013 and a 209% increase over May 2012. All I can really hope for is to continuously make progress each and every month. Only one of my recent purchases helped out with May's payments and that made up the majority of the increase. I purchased 18 shares of CAT in April. May was a quiet month for purchases with only 2 small buys, 40 shares of MSFT and 15 shares of CVX. That's what happens when a value/DG investor collides with a seemingly never-ending bull run. The rest of the activity during May was mainly through selling or closing put options or expiring puts.
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- Dividend Update - June 2013
Yet another month has rolled by and this one actually closed out the first half of the year. Really?? Well the end of another month means it's time again for my favorite monthly update, my dividend update. June was the best month I've ever...
- Dividend Update - February 2013
March 1st has rolled around so it's time for another installment of my Dividend Update. This is my favorite of my monthly updates since my ultimate goal is to reach early FI and live off my dividend income. February wasn't the best of months,...
- February Dividend Update
It's February dividend update time! My dividend total for February was $292.68 which is a 9% improvement over last year. I'm a bit disappointed with this result which was largely due to selling my position in KMI after the dividend cut they announced....
- October Dividend Update
October has come and gone (almost) and it's time for my monthly dividend update. This time around I suspected may be a light month because WMT not paying this month. WMT has a weird payout schedule where they pay twice in the first month of the quarter...
- April Dividend Update
It's time for my April dividend update! My April dividend total was $279.04 which is up 16.8% from the $238.88 that I made last quarter in January. This is also the largest dividend total I've ever had! In comparison, last years April total was...
Money and Finance
Dividend Update - May 2013
Somehow the first 5 months of the year are already over and done with so it's time for my favorite monthly update, the dividend update. May wasn't a special record setting month by any means but it was a 37% improvement over February 2013 and a 209% increase over May 2012. All I can really hope for is to continuously make progress each and every month. Only one of my recent purchases helped out with May's payments and that made up the majority of the increase. I purchased 18 shares of CAT in April. May was a quiet month for purchases with only 2 small buys, 40 shares of MSFT and 15 shares of CVX. That's what happens when a value/DG investor collides with a seemingly never-ending bull run. The rest of the activity during May was mainly through selling or closing put options or expiring puts.
Read more »
- Dividend Update - June 2013
Yet another month has rolled by and this one actually closed out the first half of the year. Really?? Well the end of another month means it's time again for my favorite monthly update, my dividend update. June was the best month I've ever...
- Dividend Update - February 2013
March 1st has rolled around so it's time for another installment of my Dividend Update. This is my favorite of my monthly updates since my ultimate goal is to reach early FI and live off my dividend income. February wasn't the best of months,...
- February Dividend Update
It's February dividend update time! My dividend total for February was $292.68 which is a 9% improvement over last year. I'm a bit disappointed with this result which was largely due to selling my position in KMI after the dividend cut they announced....
- October Dividend Update
October has come and gone (almost) and it's time for my monthly dividend update. This time around I suspected may be a light month because WMT not paying this month. WMT has a weird payout schedule where they pay twice in the first month of the quarter...
- April Dividend Update
It's time for my April dividend update! My April dividend total was $279.04 which is up 16.8% from the $238.88 that I made last quarter in January. This is also the largest dividend total I've ever had! In comparison, last years April total was...