Dividend Stocks Portfolio (Update) - May 2015

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

SALES 

This past month we did not sell off any shares from our family's dividend stock portfolio.  But since we did not sell any shares throughout the month of April, that also means that our annual dividends did not decrease. As some of my friends would say,"I'll drink to that!" :)

TOTAL VALUE OF ALL SALES: $0.00

OVERALL DECREASE TO ANNUAL DIVIDENDS: $0.00
  

PURCHASES

I know its not a great reason, but work and home life got the best of us this past month.  We ended the month with just 1 buy transaction. 

But the buy added a new company to our family's dividend stocks portfolio. With our recent purchase of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc (WMT), our family dividend stocks portfolio now contains a total of 38 different companies/ETF that all pay us a dividend.

The following is the actual buy that we made during the month of April:

4/22/15
8 shares of WMT (Wal-Mart Stores, Inc) at $77.75 ($622.00)

• Estimated Annual Dividend Received: $15.68

TOTAL SPENT ON NEW ACQUISITION: $622.00*

OVERALL INCREASE TO ANNUAL DIVIDENDS: $15.68

With the additional $15.68 in dividends, our new estimated annual income is now $3,191 or and average of approximately $265/month.
  

TRADE COUNTER

We are blessed to have a PMA trading account with Wells Fargo Investments.  With our PMA trading account, we receive 100 free trades a year!  How awesome is that?!? So far, we've used a little more than half of the free trades, but we still have a total of 45 trades left out of 100.  Our trade counter will reset on 9/15/2015. With just a little over 4 months left before our trade counter resets, that means we can average roughly 10 trades a month and not pay single penny in commission.

 

DIVIDENDS

In terms of dividends received from companies, April was another good month. It was the record setting $274 we received in March, but must say we are still very blessed to be where we are today. During the month of April,  our family received dividends from a total of 9 companies/ETFs!! The total dividends received from those 9 companies/ETFs was: $235.68.

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

WELLS FARGO INVESTMENT ACCOUNT:
4/1/15 - Dividend from EDIV(SPDR Emerging Mkts ETF) Inc: $4.06
4/2/15 - Dividend from BPY (Brookfield Property Partners): $6.16
4/8/15 - Dividend from BPY (Brookfield Property Partners): $0.76
4/13/15 - Dividend from BPY (Brookfield Property Partners): $12.31
4/15/15 - Dividend from OXY (Occidental Petroleum Corp): $3.60
4/15/15 - Dividend from CRC (California Resource Corp): $0.02
4/15/15 - Dividend from ARI(Apollo Comm. Real Estate Fin., Inc.): $55.57
4/27/15 - Dividend from GE (General Electric Co): $10.35

4/30/15 - Dividend from TD (Toronto Dominion Bank): $4.21
4/30/15 - Dividend from AMTG (Apollo Res. Mortgage , Inc): $87.49

* BPY paid us three separate dividends on 4/2, 4/8, & 4/13.

EDWARD JONES INVESTMENT ACCOUNT:
4/22/15 - Dividend from CMCSA (Comcast Corp): $51.15

OVERALL DIVIDENDS TOTAL THIS MONTH: $235.68*

* 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