January Dividend Income Update

With the first month of 2013 coming to a close, its time for another dividend income update!  January was a great month for me!

Taxable Account:
O - $10.62
ERH - $75.00
AT - $12.60
NM - $18.00 (paid Dec. 31)
GE - $19.00
CIM - $135.00
bank stock "X" - $3924.60

Total in taxable account: $4194.82

Roth IRA:
ARR - $88.80
GGN - $28.32
STB - $18.81

Total in Roth IRA: $135.93

Total January 2013 dividends: $4330.75
Total January 2012 dividends: $3739.92

Wow, what a great increase from 2012, and a great overall total!  If only all months could be this good.  This month, I did not make any purchases in my taxable account, as I focused on my Roth IRA contribution.  I'll be making a purchase in my taxable account this month; it will be interesting to see where I can find value in this market. Hope you're 2013 investing got off to the same good start that mine did!

January Dividend Income

Another month almost in the books, and its time to update my dividend income for the month.  This has been a great month for me, as I just accepted a position with a major pharmaceutical company as a senior scientist.  This position comes with a hefty raise for me, but just as importantly, is more stable than my current position, and is more interesting to me as well.  On the dividend side, as I alluded to in my last post, it was my BEST MONTH EVER.  Without further ado, my dividend income for January:

Bank Stock - $3354.00
ERH - $53.63
NM - $18.00
O - $10.19
GE - $17.00
CIM - $165.00

Roth IRA
ARR - $122.10

total dividends = $3739.92

Wow!  Man, if I could get this month every month, I'm not sure I'd even bother to work (or at least take an extended vacation).  I know I won't have a month like this again until April, but I'm pretty happy that I'll be able to build up the other months a little quicker with this money, as well as the income from my new position.

Big J

November Dividend Update

Well, its been a pretty rocky month for me personally.  I took a paycut at work, and there's really no telling how much longer I'll be employed period.  I knew this was a possibility, which is one of the reasons I really wanted to focus on saving and investing for cash flow.  The whole situation has forced me to take a long hard look at how much I'm making in dividends currently to see if I could live off of them currently.  I think it would be close, but I'd be much better off waiting longer.  However, I just got the news this morning that my bank stock dividend is going up 5 cents a share quarterly, which represents over a 300 dollar a quarter increase, which is great for me!  Anyway, on to the November dividend update:

CLMT - $279
LINE - $414
O - $10.16
ERH - $42.38

TOTAL = $745.54

Not bad!  I'll be happy when the Feb-May-Aug-Nov dividend totals are over $1000, but 'm getting close to it!

In other news, I'm thinking of getting rid of one of my savings accounts and just taking the money and buying up shares of a very conservative dividend stock (think PG, JNJ, etc.).  Thoughts?

October Dividend Income

Well, another month has almost passed, making it time to take a look back and see how I did dividend-wise.  This was a great month for me; I'm almost debt free now (hope to be totally debt free by the end of the year) and I finally have my roth IRA in the brokerage house I want it in; I'm now just waiting on a market dip to purchase stocks for it.  I also made a 2500 dollar contribution to it, I hope to make the full 5k contribution in the next few months.  As far as dividends in taxable accounts, it was a great month:

ERH - 42.38
NM - 18.00
O - 10.16
GE - 15.00
CIM - 195.00
Bank Stock - 2954.00

TOTAL - $3,234.54

As far as what I did with the money, the bank stock money went towards the 2500 I recently put into the roth; the rest was put in a savings account.  The dividends from the other stocks are just sitting idle for the time being in my scottrade account; I'll collect some more dividends in the beginning of November, plus now that I don't have a car payment, I can throw some more money in there, and aim to make another purchase in my taxable account next month as well.