Okay, now we are SEVEN months down for the year, with five left to go. The weather has been more moderate, lately, with substantial rain fall. What else is coming down? It’s raining dividends baby! This was an overall “quiet” month from an alarming number of dividend payers, but the income was still nice to see, regardless. Let’s grab that cup of coffee and see my July results!
Bert’s Recent Stock Purchase – Tyson Foods (TSN)
July was a long month for my portfolio. With Capital One selling their investment portfolio to Etrade , I was looking for a new trading form. After many, many talks with Lanny, I finally settled on Ally Investing. My transfer was initiated at the beginning of July, but my assets were not fully transitioned until the end of the month. This waiting period was unique and shook up the flow of the first six-months of the year that saw me making a lot of stock purchases. For the first 30 days of July, I did not make any stock purchases. However, on the final day of the month, I was able to sneak one purchase in. Here is why I purchased shares of Tyson Foods (TSN) on July 31!
Lanny’s August Dividend Stock Watch List
Getting to the mid-point of summer and it’s time to warm up my dividend stock watch list article. Time for me to put the pencil to paper, analyze dividend stocks that may or may not be undervalued and ripe for my portfolio. I am looking forward to deploy capital that I managed to save over the last 4+ weeks, in order to add dividend income to my forward looking projection and reduce the time needed to being financial independent! Are you ready to grab that ice-cold… drink and check out my dividend stock watch list for August? Keep on reading then!
Expected Dividend Increases in August 2018
The calendar is turning once again and you know what that means. It is time for the next installment of our expected dividend increases article! For those of you that are new, each month, we try to aggregate as many dividend growth stocks in one article that are expected to increase their dividend in the coming month. We love following dividend growth stocks and are always so excited when one of our holdings, or potential holdings, announces a dividend increase. So we try to share that excitement with all of you! Here is our expected dividend increases in August installment of the monthly series!
Dividend Payout Ratio: Explaining the Most Important Metric
In a recent article, Lanny broke down what a dividend is and highlighted what is so great about receiving a dividend. When I first started learning about dividend investing, there were a lot of articles and emphasis on assessing a company’s dividend payout ratio. So I thought I would take some time today, provide a definition for the payout ratio, show how to calculate the metric, and some other details/tricks of the trade that we have picked up over the years as we continue to invest in dividend growth stocks.
Read: The 3 Metrics of our dividend stock screener, which includes the dividend payout ratio!
Lanny’s Q2 Dividend Portfolio Update
Now that the second quarter is behind us, it’s time to check in on where I currently am at with my dividend portfolio. I want to share the current state of my dividend portfolio, related to market value, forward-looking dividends, yield and yield on cost. Additionally, I’ll describe the activities; such as, contributions, dividends received to date and the like. I thought this may give a great snapshot of where I currently am, the progress into this year and if I like the trajectory for the year. Time to check out the state of my portfolio!
5 Financial Mistakes I Made in My 20s and How They Cost Me Thousands of Dollars in Dividend Income
Mistakes. We’ve all made them. I’ve made my fair share of mistakes over the years, professionally and personally. Sometimes, the best way to learn is to experience the pain yourself. It is funny, my mom and I were talking over the weekend and she told me that my grandpa always used to tell her that “learning is expensive.” This didn’t specifically relate to education, either. This related to different life situations her and my dad encountered over the years. This year, I’ll be turning 29. My 20s will soon be in the rear-view mirror. I’ve made plenty of financial mistakes over the years that have likely cost me a lot of dividend income. With the benefit of hindsight, I wanted to share my top 5 financial mistakes and calculate the true impact they had on my life and my dividend income.
