Saturday, June 4, 2016

May 2016 Dividends and Passive Income Progress


It's time to report my May progress.

In May besides my monthly Loyal3  investments I purchased

10 shares of AAPL - Apple
21 shares of VLO - Valero Energy.

Dividends received in April 2016:
AAPL$1.20
BMO$16.82
DRI$17.56
KMI$8.73
NE$0.65
PG$17.45
RY$11.69
T$13.89
TD$15.77
YUM$0.34
Total$104.10

This is 23% decrease comparing to May 2015.

I analysed why this happened and this decrease was due to decrease in KMI and NE dividends.

Here 2014/2015 vs 2016:
2014JanFebMarchAprMayJuneJulyAugSeptOctNovDec
$48.61$12.44$63.58$90.04$65.67$126.98$122.68$118.36$185.28$93.18$123.70$263.68
Year to date$1,314.20
2015JanFebMarchAprMayJuneJulyAugSeptOctNovDec
$78.69106.39333.50150.77128.34298.21118.30122.05361.36184.44113.44316.17
Year to date$2,311.66
2016JanFebMarchAprMayJuneJulyAugSeptOctNovNov
$183.80104.48445.07240.49104.10
Year to date$1,077.94
Additional passive income or free money from different financial institutions:


Interest:                                                          $13.80
Points AMEX                                                  $69.78
Points Discover                                              $14.03
JC Penney/Kroger/Academy                          $25.00
Ebates - get paid for shopping online            $23.00

You might noticed that my points from AMEX is higher than usual. This was due an Amex special offer to cash your points with 20% off, which I used and it gave me extra $50 in gift cards. 
             
My total financial passive income for the month of May was $249.71


At this moment my goal is to have $1k in monthly passive income from dividends and other financial institutions. 


I started tracking my passive income Summer 2014

2014 Passive income
June           $261.00
July            $209.67 
August       $235.62 
September  $212.97
October      $140.37
November  $207.05
December   $377.91

2015 Passive Income

January      $167.44
February    $279.29
March         $397.80
April           $202.48
May            $229.70
June            $368.21
July             $205.56
August        $254.16
September  $494.20
October      $231.18
November   $268.28
December   $458.46

2016 Passive Income

January     $298.49
February   $332.39
March       $500.67
April         $360.27

Thanks for reading and please share your thoughts and progress.

9 comments:

  1. Nice passive income stream.Good luck

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  2. Thanks for sharing your recent passive income stream. Always happy to be a fellow shareholder with you in those large Canadian banks among other names too. Your year over year growth continues to look nice on a month to month basis. Clearly, you are doing the right thing. Keep it up!

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  3. HHWG,

    No worries on your monthly dividend income right now in terms of comparing to prior year - KMI stung a lot of us - just keep the head up and keep pushing forward, stay consistent and stretch yourself!

    -Lanny

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    1. Hello Lanny,
      thanks for your nice words.KMI... I remember I almost sold it when it was up high but as usual didn't do it last minute...:( Best wishes

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  4. Wouldn't worry too much about a month-to-month fluctuation in dividends. What matters overall is the moving average or trend, and it looks like your's is marching in the right direction!

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  5. Just got my cheque for $500.

    Sometimes people don't believe me when I tell them about how much you can earn taking paid surveys at home...

    So I took a video of myself getting paid over $500 for taking paid surveys to finally set the record straight.

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