I received over $600 dividend income from 29 different companies in October 2016.
The income is bit lower than I anticipated due to the sale of few stocks in the past.
The income is bit lower than I anticipated due to the sale of few stocks in the past.
We are almost at the end of the year, so I am pretty busy in cleaning up my dividend portfolios to minimize the investment risks.
I sold few stocks and ETFs and bought some dividend growers.
I took some profits, and for tax purpose sold some losers and risky investments.
Some ETFs I bought at the beginning of my investment journey for diversification purpose, now they were overlapping my dividend stocks. I sold most of them.
I will post the changes in my next portfolio updates.
Also, I am very busy in reading book titled “The Single Best Investment – creating wealth with Dividend Growth“, by Lowell Miller.
It is another best book for dividend investors that gives you confident in your dividend growth journey.
Every time when I read a book I learn something new and get full experience of the author. I am in the middle of the book now, but already learnt a lot from it.
I love reading books and learning about money and wealth building techniques.
Good books are the best investment for the money pay for them. Books give all sorts of ideas, confident in your field and full experience of the author for a tiny amount of money.
By reading a book, you could avoid costly financial mistakes for fraction of its cost.
My favourite place to shop for book is Amazon. We can read honest reviews from real people before purchase them.
So, why not buy a book for your holiday gift and feed your mind with wealth knowledge – invest in your knowledge.
Now let’s look at my dividend income in numbers.
I received $610.26 dividend income in October 2016, and it is 7.39% higher than October 2015 which as $568.25.
Summing up all the dividends I received in 2016, I came up with $5842.01 One of my short-term goals is to receive at least $7200 dividend income during the year of 2016. So far, I’ve achieved 81.14% of the goal.
I just have only two months to hit the goal 😀
Dividend income from Canadian stocks
- FC – $7.80
- TD – $96.25
- TRP – $84.76
- CPX – $39.00
- CGX – $4.73
- CM – $30.25
- BNS – $74.00
- GEI – $3.30
- BCE – $68.26
- IPL – $6.50
- T – $46.00
- XDV – $7.04
- XTR – $10.00
- XRE – $10.25
- CPD – $5.22
- CBO – $2.54
- DRG.UN – $3.33
- CAR.UN – $3.13
- REI.UN – $11.75
- ZPR – $2.15
- MRG.UN – $5.00
- AQN – $13.83
- MST.UN – $5.94
- BEI.UN – $18.75
- ALA – $13.26
Dividend income from U.S stocks
- CSCO – $1.30
- GIS – $5.06
- DPS – $6.36
- KO – $24.50
Total: $610.26
Total dividend I received for year 2016: $5842.01
Estimated passive income
For those new to this site, the Estimated passive income is the income I estimated to receive in a year based on my current investments holding and their distribution rate.
My Estimated passive income is currently at $7430, increased by $60.
One of my long-term goals is receive $25000 dividend income from investment portfolios. I have achieved 29.72% of my goal.
I am very happy with my results and achievements so far. I hope I am moving in the right direction toward my long term financial goals.
Learn about finance, live within your mean, save and invest in high quality assets will help you to achieve your financial goals much earlier than you think.
Thank you so much for your great support, encouragement, and being in my financial journey.
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Peter Dave says
Hello, good month for you. I am looking forward see your net worth update for the month of October..thanks,
Finance Jouneny says
Hello Peter,
Thank for your interest. I will post the net worth update shortly 🙂
Cheers,
Justin says
Hey FJ, I started reading your suggestion “The Single Best Investment”, really good book. It’s amazing how much money you can make on Dividends, and the growth of dividend in relationship with the growth of your stock. I took a big hit on stocks lately with AQN, EMA, SRU.UN, HR.UN, BCE, DPS, COST, but the good thing is that the dividends still hold up.
Finance Jouneny says
Hello Justin,
It is a fantastic book for dividend growth investors. It motivates and gives you tips to get success using a simple strategy – dividend growth.
Most dividend paying stocks took a hit due to rising bond yields. Actually, I made some purchases from your list above after the recent sell-off, and am looking to accumulate more shares if prices drop further.
Best Regards,
Jerry Falkiner says
Hello,
Your journey has inspired my wife and I to begin investing into our TFSA account with a similar strategy. We began our journey two months ago. Our strategy also includes purchasing undervalued stocks without a dividend, and then selling those stocks when it has achieved a reasonable rate of return to increase our earnings. Our investment to date is only 12k in stocks, in which 4k is non-dividend. This strategy will change to dividend stocks only in the TFSA when as the portfolio matures and there is less room for this strategy.
The challenge at this time is research. We can extract information from various sources and manually document stocks that meet our strategy. That is an immense time investment to find a stock and right time to purchase. We use TMX Money, Google Finance (painful), Globe and Mail, and RBC. Do you recommend a software package that is available for stocks on the TSE that can analyse the market and stocks?
Thank you for your time and great website.
Sincerely
Jerry and Debbie
Finance Jouneny says
Hello Jerry and Debbie,
Thank you for your kind comments,
Value investing strategy works really well, but sometimes you may need to wait for longer period of time to get the results you want. When you pick under value dividend paying stocks, you will be paid while waiting to get the price.
I use morningstar, MSN money and Market research at TD direct investing for stock research. All of these tools are free and easy to use. Globe and Mail has a great research tools, but I didn’t have chance to use it.
Best Regards,
Doug says
Awesome month you are doing great.
Finance Jouneny says
Hello Doug,
Thank you for stopping by, always great to see growing passive cash in-flow into our bank accounts
Cheers,