Dividend Stocks Portfolio (Update) - January 2015

 

Here is the recent update to our dividend stocks portfolio – January 2015.

 

SALES 

We in the middle of trying to re-balance our portfolio as there are a few companies we simply view as short-term investments and thus do not plan to hang onto for the long term.  However, we did not sell any shares in our portfolio this past month.  On the positive side, since we did not sell any shares, that means that our annual dividends did not decrease.

TOTAL VALUE OF ALL SALES: $0.00

OVERALL DECREASE TO ANNUAL DIVIDENDS: $0.00

 

PURCHASES

Given the expenses we had related to Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, I still think that December was a pretty decent month for us.  We still ended up picking up shares in four companies this past month. Three were companies we had already owned and was merely buying more shares to lower our overall cost basis, while one was a new holding.  Our purchase of NOV now brings our family dividend stocks portfolio to a total of 33 different companies/ETF.  
 

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

12/1/14
10 shares of ESV (Ensco Plc) at $33.00 ($330.00)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $30.00

12/1/14

9 shares of NOV (National Oilwell Varco Inc) at $65.00 ($585.00)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $16.56

12/5/14

15 shares of BBL (BHP Billiton Plc) at $46.00 ($690.00)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $36.30

12/12/14

10 shares of BBL (BHP Billiton Plc) at $42.00 ($420.00)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $24.20

 12/12/14

50 shares of TCK (Teck Resources Ltd) at $11.50 ($575.50)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $38.76

 TOTAL SPENT ON NEW ACQUISITION: $2,600.50*
*We receive 100 free trades per year through our brokerage account so there was no commission paid on these purchase.

As of 1/2/2015, we still have 68 free trades to make until 9/15/2015

OVERALL INCREASE TO ANNUAL DIVIDENDS: $145.82

With the additional $145.82 in annual dividends, our new estimated annual income is now $3,168 or and average of approximately $264/month. Our plan is to continued adding money to our portfolio each month at similar rate as we did this past month. However, in 2015, our plan is to slowly build up our exposure to various ETFs.  I have been reading several articles on ETFs and I now feel compelled to put a few more eggs into our ETFs basket. :)

 

DIVIDENDS

December was a great month in terms of dividends received.  During this past month, our dividend total was $297.90.  We had 15 companies pay us a dividend this past month. 

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

WELLS FARGO INVESTMENT ACCOUNT:
12/01/14 - Dividend from ENB (Enbridge Inc): $6.19
12/01/14 - Dividend from AFL (Aflac Inc): $13.65
12/10/14 - Dividend from TGT (Target Corp): $13.04
12/10/14 - Dividend from IBM (Int'l Business Machine Corp): $3.30
12/10/14 - Dividend from EXC (Exelon Corp): $18.58
12/10/14 - Dividend from EMR (Emerson Electric Co): $4.23
12/15/14 - Dividend from ORI (Old Republic Int'l Corp): $6.39
12/15/14 - Dividend from MCD (McDonalds Corp): $5.10
12/15/14 - Dividend from ARCP (American Realty Capital Prop Inc): $37.50
12/18/14 - Dividend from RIG (Transocean Ltd): $26.25
12/19/14 - Dividend from ESV (Ensco Plc): $48.53
12/19/14 - Dividend from NOV (National Oilwell Varco Inc): $4.14
12/26/14 - Dividend from CIG (Companhia Energetica de Minas Gerais): $57.11
12/31/14 - Dividend from BPY (Brookfield Property Partners): $1.03
12/31/14 - Dividend from FTR (Frontier Communications Corp): $52.86

EDWARD JONES INVESTMENT ACCOUNT:
*No dividend were received in December from EJ Account

OVERALL DIVIDENDS TOTAL THIS MONTH: $297.90*

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

With the total from this past month, we ended up exceeding our  2014 goal of $2,150 in annual dividends received by $355.00. In fact, we finished with a total of $2,505.00, or an average of $208.75 in dividends each month.  
 

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

 

Dividend Stocks Portfolio