Dividend Stocks Portfolio (Update) - March 2015

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

SALES 

We are still 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.  This past month, Frontier Communications (FTR) saw decent gains and reached our limit price. We therefore ended up selling 228 shares of Frontier at $8.05. From the recent sale, we netted a total of $1,835.51. The sale left us with roughly 300 shares of FTR. Unfortunately, the sale also means that we saw our annual dividends decrease by $95.76.  

The good new is that we did not pay a commission fee since we receive 100 free trades a year.  To date, we still have a total of 54 trades left out of 100.  Our trade counter will reset on 9/15/2015. 

 

TOTAL VALUE OF ALL SALES: $1,833.51

OVERALL DECREASE TO ANNUAL DIVIDENDS: $95.76
 

PURCHASES

The month of February ended up being a VERY quite month for us.  For the first time since we started our blog in April of 2014, we ended the month without a single buy transactions. We did have a few limit orders open, but unfortunately with the market rebounding in February, none of those limit order had executed.  On the bright side, we saw gains all around in our stock portfolio, retirement portfolio, college funds, etc.  We will be report those gains in future post later this month. 

Because tax season is around the corner, and we have a few large bills coming up, we had to be a bit more reserved this month. Hopefully, March brings some better opportunities to put more capital to work. But with no new purchases this month, and we still held onto some shares of FTR, our family dividend stocks portfolio remains with a total of 34 different companies/ETF that all pay us a dividend. 

TOTAL SPENT ON NEW ACQUISITION: $0*

OVERALL INCREASE TO ANNUAL DIVIDENDS: $0

With no additional dividends, and a loss of $95.76 in dividends from our sale of 228 shares of FTR stocks, our new estimated annual income is now $3,133 or and average of approximately $261/month.  In addition to the loss of dividends from our sell of FTR stocks, the recent dividend cut to ESV reduced our annual dividends by $132.00.  On the bright side, AT&T and KMI increased their dividends!

Definitely not enough positive to outweigh the negatives this past month. I guess not every month can be a winning month. But I never said this journey was going to be an easy one. :)
 

DIVIDENDS

February was  also a below average month in terms of dividends received.  During this past month, our dividend total was $112.32.  We had 5 companies/ETFs pay us a dividend this past month. We own shares of AT&T in two separate accounts so we saw two separate payments from the same company. 

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

WELLS FARGO INVESTMENT ACCOUNT:
2/2/15 - Dividend from VZ (Verizon Communications Co): $13.75
2/2/15 - Dividend from DE (Deere and Co): $10.80
2/2/15 - Dividend from T (AT&T, Inc): $18.96
1/15/15 - Dividend from KMI (Kinder Morgan, Inc): $10.35
1/15/15 - Dividend from ATNA (Artesian Resource Corp): $13.98

EDWARD JONES INVESTMENT ACCOUNT:
1/28/15 - Dividend from T (AT&T Inc): $44.48

OVERALL DIVIDENDS TOTAL THIS MONTH: $112.32*

* 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