Dividend Stocks Portfolio (Update) - April 2015

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

SALES 

This past month, Target Corp (TGT) saw some decent gains. Since we bought Target last year when they were going through security issues and a failed Canadian launch, we purchased shares of Target in the mid $50s. Thankfully, we've seen a nice recovery in the stock price and therefore decided to cash out a little bit of the gains. 

On 3/9/2015, we sold 10 shares of Target Corp (TGT) for $78.33 and cashed out roughly $250 in profits.  The sale left us with 15 shares of TGT in our family's dividend stocks portfolio.  The sale, however, also means that we saw our annual dividends decrease by $20.80.  

TOTAL VALUE OF ALL SALES: $783.29

OVERALL DECREASE TO ANNUAL DIVIDENDS: $20.80

PURCHASES

After having not a single buy transaction in February, the month of March ended up being a pretty active month for us.  We ended the month with a total of 7 buy transactions. 

So out of the 7 transactions this past month, 3 were companies we had already owned and were merely buying more shares to lower our overall cost basis. The remaining 4 transactions were new companies that we decided to add to our family's dividend stocks portfolio.  With our recent purchase of ExxonMobil Corp (XOM), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.B) and Phillip Morris (PM), our family dividend stocks portfolio now contains a total of 37 different companies/ETF that all pay us a dividend.

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

3/10/15
6 shares of XOM (Exxon Mobil Corp) at $84.31 ($505.86)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $16.56

3/11/15
8 shares of JNJ (Johnson & Johnson) at $99.00 ($792.00)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $22.40

3/13/15
30 shares of ESV (Ensco Plc) at $21.00 ($630.00)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $72.00

3/13/15

9 shares of RDS.B (Royal Dutch Shell) at $59.97 ($539.73)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $33.84

3/13/15
9 shares of NOV (National Oilwell Varco Inc) at $48.54 ($436.86)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $16.56

3/18/15

5 shares of OXY (Occidental Petroleum Corp) at $71.94 ($359.70)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $14.40

3/31/15
7 shares of PM (Phillip Morris Int'l, Inc) at $75.33 ($527.31)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $28.00

TOTAL SPENT ON NEW ACQUISITION: $3,791.46*

OVERALL INCREASE TO ANNUAL DIVIDENDS: $203.76

With the additional $203.76 dividends, offset by a loss of $20.80 in dividends from our sale of 10 shares of TGT stocks, our new estimated annual income is now $3,176 or and average of approximately $265/month.
  

TRADE COUNTER

A bit of good news is that with all the activity we had this past month, we did not pay a commission fee! We are blessed to have a PMA trading account with Wells Fargo Investments and therefore we receive 100 free trades a year!  To date, we still have a total of 46 trades left out of 100.  Our trade counter will reset on 9/15/2015. 

 

DIVIDENDS

In terms of dividends received from companies, March was our best month to date! During this past month,  our family received dividends from a total of 18 companies/ETFs!! The total dividends received from those 18 companies/ETFs was: $112.32.

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

WELLS FARGO INVESTMENT ACCOUNT:
3/2/15 - Dividend from ENB(Enbridge) Inc: $7.46
3/2/15 - Dividend from AFL (Aflac Inc): $13.65
3/3/15 - Dividend from TIS (Orchids Paper Products Co): $14.00
3/5/15 - Dividend from BSBR (Banco Santander Brasil): $1.86
3/10/15 - Dividend from TGT (Target Corp): $13.04
3/10/15 - Dividend from IBM (Int'l Business Machine Corp): $3.30
3/10/15 - Dividend from EXC(Exelon Corp): $18.58
3/10/15 - Dividend from EMR (Emerson Electric Co): $4.23

3/10/15 - Dividend from CVX (Chevron Corp): $5.35
3/10/15 - Dividend from IBM (Int'l Business Machine Corp): $3.30
3/11/15 - Dividend from BSBR (Banco Santander Brasil): $5.84
3/16/15 - Dividend from ORI (Old Republic Int'l Corp): $6.48
3/16/15 - Dividend from MCD (McDonalds Corp): $5.10
3/18/15 - Dividend from RIG (Transocean Ltd): $26.25
3/20/15 - Dividend from ESV (Ensco Plc): $8.25
3/27/15 - Dividend from NOV (National Oilwell Varco): $16.56
3/31/15 - Dividend from BPY (Brookfield Property Partners): $6.16
3/31/15 - Dividend from FTR (Frontier Communications Corp): $31.56
3/31/15 - Dividend from BBL (BHP Billiton Plc): $83.08

* BSBR paid us a dividend twice on 3/5 & 3/11.

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

OVERALL DIVIDENDS TOTAL THIS MONTH: $274.05*

* 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