Saturday, October 5, 2013

Dividend Income Progress Update - September 2013

Once again it is time for a goals/progress update. I am pleased to report that annualized dividend income increased in July, extending the streak to 39 consecutive months of increases after June 2010's decline. Since I began publicly tracking annualized dividend income in November 2007, it has increased in 68 of the last 70 months.

My goals were defined in this December 1, 2007 Investing Goals post and last updated in my 2013 Investing Goals post. Below is an updated version of the table found in the original post.

Description Dividend
Income
Annualized
Yield
on Cost
2027 Goal 110,000 n/a
2017 Goal 30,000 n/a
2013 Goal 25,000 n/a
December/2012 21,650 4.47%
Purchases YTD 4,678 -0.15%
Div. Changes YTD 1,242 0.14%
Sales YTD -2,019 0.06%
September/2013 25,464 4.52%
Purchases 527 -0.01%
Div. Changes 65 0.02%
Sales -87 -0.01%
August/2013 24,959 4.52%

The above information covers the current month and year-to-date through the current month.

Click here for a Detailed Historical Progress Table.

For the month, annualized dividend income increased $505, and Yield on Cost (YOC) was flat 0.00%. This month's changes were a net of new purchases, dividend changes and sales during the month. Let's examine each of the these categories:

Purchases: Purchases this month increased my annual dividend income by $527 and decreased yield on cost -0.01%. As noted in earlier updates, I generally expect YOC to drop in most months since new investments will yield less than my current YOC, and dividend increases will not be sufficient to offset the decline.

Dividend Changes: The $65 increase in annual dividend income and 0.02% increase in YOC related to the following dividend changes (a=dividend stated in annual terms, q=quarterly, m=monthly):

- $57 ConocoPhillips (COP) $0.66q>$0.69q
- $8 Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC) $0.50q>$0.52q

Sales: During September, I sold my remaining shares in TEG at a significant gain. TEG has not increased its dividend since February 2009.

That's it for this time. The next monthly progress update will be early November.

Full Disclosure: Long, all the aforementioned securities, except TEG. See a list of all my dividend growth holdings here.

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