Project: Dividend Stocks for Teenager March Dividends update

I wrote how we started Dividend Stocks portfolio for my daughter and keep track of our progress here.

Our Teenager Portfolio is doing really good this month.

In March we didn't purchase any stocks.

March Dividends:

EMR	$12.60
JNJ	$9.90
SE	$17.94
XOM	$11.91
Total	$52.35

Here is the dividends month by month:

2015

jan

feb

mar

apr

may

june

july

aug

sep

oct

nov

dec

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

49.81

18.7

28.91

50.27

Total

147.69

jan

feb

mar

apr

may

june

july

aug

sep

oct

nov

dec

2016

18.73

41.03

52.35

Total

112.11

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Stocks I bought in March

In March I bought

55 shares of HRB - H&R Block

30 shares of WFC - Wells Fargo

Sell or not to Sell?

Okay, we all have stocks which are not doing well and stocks which are doing very well.

As I wrote before, for me it's always very hard to pull this trigger and sell my winner...

I know that lots of dividend stock investors think that we need to buy and keep stocks forever.

But observing my dividends stocks coming through ups and downs I still feel like I do need to sell my winners.

Like for example. I remember how just not long time ago my shares of KMI were $600 up and running strong. I was thinking to sell but got greedy.

Another recent example is FTR -  went down to $3 in 2014, then up to $8 in 2015 and then down to $3 and now it's up to $5 again.

I did sold some of my stocks but usually right after I sell they would go up and then I would feel like oh, yeah, I could just keep them.

So my boyfriend suggested me an interesting idea - to sell only part of my stock total, which equal to the gain and keep initial amount I invested. This way if stock would go down, I already got some earnings out, if stock would go up, I would not feel as bad as if I sold all of shares. 

I really like this idea and I might try to use it.

This week stocks considerations - Brokerage account and Loyal3

It looks like all stocks which I had previously on my list are all up, so I was looking around for more choices.

So far I am thinking:

Brokerage account choices:

HRB, PFE, AAPL, GEL. 

Loyal3:

TWX, AAPL, NOK, KHC, SBUX.

Which ones do you like?

What stocks are you looking at this week?

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February 2016 Dividends and Passive Income Progress

I was able to purchase shares of DEO in February and I had a post about this here.

February is usually one of the lowest dividends month for me.

Dividends received in February 2016:

AAPL	$0.54
BMO	$15.96
DRI	$17.42
FCPT	$2.20
KMI	$8.66
NE	$4.80
PG	$17.14
RY	$10.76
T	$13.71
TD	$12.95
YUM	$0.34
Total	$104.48

Which is $2.00 less than in 2015 but mostly because KMI and NE reduced their dividends.

My February 2015 dividends:

T	$12.89
NE	$11.06
KMI	$29.45
PETS	$18.07
DRI	$18.70
PG	$16.22
Total	$106.39

Here 2014/2015 vs 2016:

2014	Jan	Feb	March	Apr	May	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
	$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
2015	Jan	Feb	March	Apr	May	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
	$78.69	106.39	333.50	150.77	128.34	298.21	118.30	122.05	361.36	184.44	113.44	316.17
									Year to date			$2,311.66
2016	Jan	Feb	March	Apr	May	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Nov
	$183.80	104.48
									Year to date			$288.28

                                         

Additional passive income or free money from different financial institutions:

Interest:                                                          $12.32

Points AMEX                                                  $33.89
Points Discover                                              $4.28 

JC Penney                                                     $20.00
Yearly reward from TXU                                $22.82
Ebates Quarterly Earnings                            $134.60

(if you sign up through my link you will earn $10.00 reward after you do your shopping though ebates. I like online shopping, so ebates is way to go to earn extra money for online dealer seekers like me :))

My total financial passive income for the month of February was $332.39

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

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Project: Dividend Stocks for Teenager February Dividends update

I wrote how we started Dividend Stocks portfolio for my daughter and keep track of our progress here.

Our Teenager Portfolio is doing good this month.

In February we didn't purchase any stocks.

February Dividends:

PG	$11.37
RY	$11.64
T	$18.01
Total	$41.02

Here is the dividends month by month:

2015

jan

feb

mar

apr

may

june

july

aug

sep

oct

nov

dec

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

49.81

18.7

28.91

50.27

Total

147.69

jan

feb

mar

apr

may

june

july

aug

sep

oct

nov

dec

2016

18.82

41.02

Total

59.84

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