Saturday, October 4, 2014

Dividend Income Progress Update - September 2014

Once again it is time for a goals/progress update. I am pleased to report that annualized dividend income increased in September, extending the streak to 51 consecutive months of increases after June 2010's decline. Since I began publicly tracking annualized dividend income in November 2007, it has increased in 80 of the last 82 months.

My goals were defined in this December 1, 2007 Investing Goals post and last updated in my 2014 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 42,000 n/a
2014 Goal 30,000 n/a
December/2013 26,580 4.54%
Purchases YTD 3,442 -0.12%
Div. Changes YTD 1,022 0.16%
Sales YTD -746 0.01%
September/2014 30,298 4.59%
Purchases 340 0.00%
Div. Changes 76 0.01%
Sales 0 0.00%
August/2014 29,882 4.58%

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

Click here for a Detailed Historical Progress Table.

In September I exceeded my 2014 goal of $30,000 of annualized dividends from my Dividend Growth Stock portfolio. For the month, annualized dividend income increased $416 and Yield on Cost (YOC) was up 0.01%. This month's changes were a net of new purchases, dividend changes and sales. Let's examine each of the these categories:

Purchases: Purchases this month increased my annual dividend income by $340 and held yield on cost flat 0.00%. 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 normally be sufficient to offset the decline.

Dividend Changes: The $76 increase in annual dividend income and increase of 0.01% in YOC related to the following dividend changes (a=dividend stated in annual terms, q=quarterly, m=monthly):

- $76 ConocoPhillips (COP) $0.69q>$0.73q

Sales: There were no sales in the month of September.

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

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

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