More Dividends Update from April 2019
April turned out to be a very busy month for me. My W2 job has asked me to take over and cover the night shift. While this is not the ideal situation, I agreed to it for now. It has me working while everyone else gets to sleep but it will allow me some new opportunities as well.
This month my portfolio has continued to drive itself. It wasn’t for my lack of trying though. I found a couple of potential purchases that I was very interested in but I just couldn’t pull the trigger on any of them yet. I am going to keep looking until I find something that works well with my portfolio.
I have started employing some other investing strategies that I will be posting about in some upcoming articles.
Until then let’s take a look at how well the portfolio performed over the last month.
Stock Additions
During the month of April there were no new stock additions.
Dividends Received
This month provided me with a new 1st month of the quarter high record. It’s not very much but I am glad to see the growth
Cardinal Health (CAH) – $4.81 – Reinvested
Genuine Parts (GPC) – $4.75 – Reinvested
Coca Cola (KO) – $5.94 – Reinvested
Manhattan Bridge Capital (LOAN) – $.65 – Reinvested
Altria Group (MO) – $5.83 – Reinvested
Realty Income (O) – $6.15 – Reinvested
STAG Industrial (STAG) – $1.31
Walmart (WMT) – $5.72 – Reinvested
April was the first month of Q2 and accounted for $35.16 of my 2019 Dividend Income.
In total during 2019, I have earned $244.18 in dividend income!
So far my dividends received looks like this
Dividends Received By Year
Year over year, I saw a 79.8% increase in dividends earned during the month of April. I have made a couple of additions since last year and that is what helped fuel the YOY growth.
Portfolio Allocation
With no new additions since last month, there have been no major changes in my portfolio allocation.
Current Portfolio
With no new additions my portfolio is pretty much the same. Some reinvested dividends and market fluctuations have caused all of the changes.
MoreDividends.com Articles
Here are the articles that I posted on MoreDividends.com during April from oldest to newest.
More Dividends Update from March 2019
3.3% Dividend Increase from Southern Company (SO)
6.1% Dividend Increase from Exxon Mobil (XOM)
5.5% Dividend Increase from Apple (APPL)
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Conclusion
More Dividends saw a couple of dividend increases during April. That is just a reminder that I have chosen to use a great strategy. The portfolio continues to grow even when it is doing all of the work.
I seem to be struggling to find some opportunities in the market right now. I have my eyes open and have been doing the research, just haven’t found anything to pull the trigger on yet. I will keep looking because I am very excited to report on a new purchases.
As always I look forward to reading all of your comments and questions, until then….. happy investing!
-Jason from MoreDividends.com
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Looking forward to your new investment strategy 🙂 Luckily I have an RSS feed to your site so wen it pops up I get notified. In the current portfolio love the growth considering lack of contributing a lot of new dollars.
Ken K recently posted…Weekly Portfolio Summary
Yeah, I was hoping for a bigger pullback so that I could have made a purchase but I am still keeping my options open right now. Thanks for stopping by.
Congrats on the new quarter beginning month record. We share KO, CAH, and O this month. Nice to see them pay out for you as well.
Dividend Daze recently posted…Dividend Update – April 2019
Yes sir. It is always nice knowing a fellow shareholder. Thanks for stopping by!
Great to see your YoY progress, Jason. I share MO, O, and CAH with you this month.
It’s terrific knowing your portfolio will continue growing even when you can’t invest. Love the dividend raises.
Do you reinvest your dividends, or collect them up for a strategic investment when the time is right?
Engineering Dividends recently posted…Monthly Dividend Income (Apr. 2019)
Currently, I reinvest all dividends. When I am producing more dividend income, it is something to consider to self direct the investment of the dividends. Thanks for stopping by ED!
Great month and you are moving right along we can see the progress from when you first started.
Doug recently posted…MAIN Dividend increase
Congrats on a great month. Big improvement YOY. Happy 5 year anniversary? I see 5 years of April data.
What’s on your watchlist?
Passive Cash recently posted…April Passive Income Summary
I have been looking at some opportunities to build onto some of my existing positions more than I have been looking at starting some new positions.
I see some solid results, great stuff Jason!
We share two companies this month: O and CAH. Looking forward to following your journey along!
O and CAH are both some great companies. I am glad to meet a fellow shareholder! Thanks for stopping by!