Dividend Stocks Portfolio (Update) - November 2014

Here is the recent update to our dividend stocks portfolio – November 2014.

 

SALES

As noted in the narrative for our dividend stocks portfolio, we are in the process of re-balancing our portfolio to meet our current stock criteria. Some of our holdings, therefore, do not reflect our current goals. We are in the process of selling a few of them as they reach our pre-established limit price.

We are now currently in the 7th month of re-balancing our portfolio. Our goal is to finish the transition sometime before the end of the year. Unfortunately, our re-balancing efforts was non-existent again for a 2nd consecutive month as we did not sell any shares in our portfolio this past month. With stock prices mostly on the decline these past two months, we haven't seen any worthwhile opportunities to sell.  With the DOW back up at all time highs on Halloween, we are hoping that an end of the year run may be in the works.  If that happens, you may see us increase our sales activity and thereby exit a few short-term holdings.

TOTAL VALUE OF ALL SALES: $0.00

OVERALL DECREASE TO ANNUAL DIVIDENDS: $0.00

Since we did not sell any shares this past month, that means our annual dividends did not decrease.

 

PURCHASES

Although we did not sell any shares, that did not stop us from picking up a few shares this past month.  As stocks appear to be on the decline, we decided to seize the opportunity to add some more shares to our family portfolio. In all, we made a total of 12 purchases during the month of October.  We initiated shares in 3 new companies that we previously had not owned: EMR, OXY, and IBM were companies we did not owned prior to our acquisitions this past month. With the three new acquisitions, we now own stocks in 30 companies.

With the recent decline of SDRL, ARTNA, BBL, ESV, RIG, and AFL, we also took the opportunity to average down our cost basis in these companies.
 

The following are the actual buys that we made during the month of October:

10/1/14

9 shares of SDRL (Seadrill Ltd) at $25.50 ($229.50)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $36.00

 10/1/14

15 shares of ARTNA (Artesian Resource Corp) at $20.00 ($300.00)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $12.90

10/2/14

5 shares of BBL (BHP Billiton Plc) at $54.00 ($270.00)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $12.10

10/3/14

10 shares of ESV (Ensco Plc) at $38.00 ($380.00)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $30.00

 10/7/14
9 shares of EMR (Emerson Electric Co) at $61.00 (549.00)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $15.48

10/8/14
10 shares of RIG (Transocean Ltd) at $30.00 ($300.00)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $30.00

 10/9/14
25 shares of ARCP (American Realty Capital Properties) at $11.60 ($290.00)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $25.00

10/15/14

5 shares of OXY (Occidental Petroleum Corp) at $83.00 ($415.00)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $14.40

10/15/14
40 shares of ARCP (American Realty Capital Properties) at $11.50 ($460.00)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $40.00

 10/19/14
 6 shares of AFL (Aflac Inc) at $55.69 ($334.14)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $9.36

10/23/14
3 shares of IBM (International Business Machine) at $167.50 ($502.50)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $13.20

10/29/14
125 shares of ARCP (American Realty Capital Properties) at $8.00 ($1,000.00)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $125.00

 
TOTAL SPENT ON NEW ACQUISITION: $5,300.14*
*We receive 100 free trades per year through our brokerage account so there was no commission paid on these purchase.

 

As of 11/1/2014, we still have 80 free trades to make until 9/15/2015

OVERALL INCREASE TO ANNUAL DIVIDENDS: $363.44

With the additional $363.44 in annual dividends, our new estimated annual income is now $2,533.39 or and average of approximately $211/month. We have continued to add a healthy amount of money to our portfolio these past few months as we feel there was a few soft spots in this market with this recent dip.  The last time we saw an opportunity similar to this was back in February of this year. I'm just happy that we were ready to take advantage of this recent dip.

DIVIDENDS

September was an average month in terms of dividends received. During this past month, our dividend total was $291.61. To date, we are averaging $204.05 in dividends each month.  We had 8 companies pay us a dividend this past month. 

For the month of October, we receive the following dividends:

WELLS FARGO INVESTMENT ACCOUNT:
10/01/14 - Dividend from EDIV (SPDR S&P Emerging Markets ETF): $34.76
10/02/14 - Dividend from BPY (Brookfield Property Partners): $1.04
10/03/14 - Dividend from BPY (Brookfield Property Partners): $15.56
10/10/14 - Dividend from CIG (Companhia Energetica De Minas): $45.77
10/15/14 - Dividend from ARI (Apollo Commercial Real Estate): $50.52
10/15/14 - Dividend from ARCP (American Realty Capital Properties): $13.33
10/27/14 - Dividend from GE (General Electric): $4.40
10/31/14 - Dividend from AMTG (Apollo Residential Mortgage): $80.20

EDWARD JONES INVESTMENT ACCOUNT:
10/22/14 - Dividend from CMCSA (Comcast Corp): $46.03

OVERALL DIVIDENDS TOTAL THIS MONTH: $291.61*

* We currently receive our dividends as cash in all stock positions held.
  

In case you interested, our family's dividend stocks portfolio may be found by clicking on the link below:

 

Dividend Stocks Portfolio