Weekly Sharebuilder Purchases

Here are my automatic investments for this week.

• PM:  7.09 shares @ $84.45 --- Yield  4.74%
• BBL:  10.07 shares @ $59.56 --- Yield  4.16%
• MCD:  6.40 shares @ $93.54 --- Yield  3.46%
• KO:  14.48 shares @ $41.44 --- Yield  2.94%
• XOM:  6.18 shares @  $97.16 --- Yield  2.84%  (Initial position)

Total capital invested is $3000 ($600 in each company).  The combined yield on this week's purchases is 3.63% and will add $108.84 to my yearly dividends. 


$100/week Challenge---Week 21   S&P 500:  1996

BBL continues to drift lower and really looks good over 4% yield.  I wanted to buy shares of MO, but it keeps surging so I opted to add to my PM position.  MCD is getting close to a full position and should receive a nice dividend raise in the next couple of weeks.  To balance out the high yielders I added some more shares of KO and started a new position in XOM.  I plan on adding more to XOM until it gets close to equal weight with CVX and ultimately with BP. 

Note:  Several months back I mentioned that I wanted to reach $14,500 in forward dividends by the end of the year.  At the time I was tracking for maybe $12,800, so I needed to really ramp up purchases.  I am currently tracking $14,500 but I must continue increasing each week by at least $100.00.

I have been working six days a week, 10-11 hours a day for the past year.  I checked the math and I just realized that I will spend over 300 days this year at the office.  Hopefully the sacrifice will continue to pay...well you know....dividends.

Philip Morris raises dividend 6.4%---New Yield is 4.77%

Today Philip Morris (PM) raised its quarterly dividend 6.4% from $.94 to $1.00 per share.  This makes the new yield 4.77% as of yesterday's close. The ex-dividend date is September 23rd and the pay date is October 10th. Since I own 108.49 shares my yearly dividends will increase by $26.04.

Weekly Sharebuilder Purchases

Here are my automatic investments for this week.

• ESV:  10.55 shares @ $47.38 --- Yield  6.33%
• VZ:  10.22 shares @ $48.94 --- Yield  4.50%
• BBL:  8.26 shares @ $60.51 --- Yield  4.10%
• GM:  15.08 shares @ $33.17 --- Yield  3.62%
• MCD:  5.45 shares @ $91.66 --- Yield  3.53%

Total capital invested is $2500 ($500 in each company).  The combined yield of these purchases is 4.42% and will add $110.40 to my yearly dividends.


100/week Challenge---Week 20   S&P 500:  1994

I continue to like BBL, GM, and MCD at these levels and will add until I reach a full position in each.  Other companies on my radar for next week are MO, DE, PAYX, GE, KO, PEP, AND KMI.

August 2014 Passive Income

 

Here is the passive income I received during August.


Taxable Account

• AHITX --- $277.38
• T --- $150.80
• HCP --- $114.45
• KMI --- $99.64
• PG --- $54.79
• VZ --- $50.66
• APU --- $44.32
• CLX --- $34.02
• PAYX --- $30.52
• CAG --- $15.52
• ARCP --- $12.23

Total taxable income is $884.33

Retirement Account

• AHITX --- $111.55
• ABNDX --- $102.92

Total retirement income is $214.47

Total passive income received in all accounts is $1098.80.


New Capital Invested

• MCD --- $2400
• BP --- $1100
• BBL --- $900
• KO --- $900
• T --- $900
• CLX --- $600
• PM --- $600
• PG --- $600
• ESV --- $500
• BAX --- $500
• CVX --- $500
• APU --- $500
• PFE --- $500
• GM --- $500
• VZ --- $500
• ABALX --- ($15088.34)

Total net capital invested is ($3588.34).  September should offset August's net loss.

Verizon raises dividend 3.8%---New yield is 4.42%

Today Verizon announced that it is raising its quarterly dividend from $.53 to $.55 per share.  This is an increase of 3.8% and the yield is now 4.42%.  Since I own 106.87 shares, this will increase my yearly dividends by $8.55.

Stock Purchase: BP

Today I added shares to BP and now it is my second largest holding behind T.

• BP:  100 shares @ $44.86 --- Yield  5.22%

Total capital invested is $4496 and this will add $234.00 to my yearly dividends.  This may be a bit premature and has "value trap" written all over it, but I will be content to collect dividends while BP sorts out its continued legal issues.

Note:  This is not part of my Weekly Sharebuilder purchases.

Weekly Sharebuilder Purchases

Here are my automatic investments for this week.

• BBL:  15.75 shares @ $63.49 --- Yield  3.91%
• MCD:  10.72 shares @ $93.32 --- Yield  3.47%
• GM:  28.57 shares @ $35.01 --- Yield  3.43%
• KO:  24 shares @ $41.67 --- Yield  2.93%

Total capital invested is $4000 ($1000 in each company).  The combined yield on these purchases is 3.44% and will add $137.20 to my yearly dividends.


$100/week Challenge---Week 19   S&P 500:  2005

This week I am adding to some underweight positions.  BBL, GM, and MCD continue to show weakness in an otherwise strong market.  I will continue adding to these positions if they pull back further.

Other stocks on my radar for next week include BP, GE, CVX, BA, ESV, CLX, T, and DE.