July 2016 Dividends and Passive Income Progress

It's time to report my July progress.

In July 
I sold 206 shares of AUY. I wrote a post here

I purchased 95 shares of F, 13 shares of GILD, and 100 shares of RCII. You can read more about these purchases here. 

I also did my regular $250 monthly purchases at Loyal3. You can read post here.

Dividends received in July 2016:

AUY	$0.88
VER	$32.55
BNS	$14.19
BCE	$18.90
CHSP	$15.46
CSAL	$20.03
DIS	0.73
HRB	12.1
FCPT	$3.64
GPS	$1.83
GSK	$31.52
KO	$18.61
KHC	$0.37
M	$1.81
NKE	$1.80
NOK	$3.56
PM	$11.69
STOR	$0.63
UFS	$15.70
WFM	$3.16
WIN	$4.25
Total	$213.41

This is 80% increase comparing to July 2016


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	Dec
	$183.80	104.48	445.07	240.49	104.10	327.53	213.41
									Year to date			$1,618.88

Additional passive income or free money from different financial institutions:

Interest:                                                          $1.60

Points AMEX                                                  $19.12

Points Discover                                              $13.95

KOHLS/Palais Royal                                      $10.00              

My total financial passive income for the month of July was $278.08

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

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

May          $249.71

June         $414.51

Thanks for reading and please share your thoughts and progress.

10 Days Healthy Eating Challenge

In this post I want to share my videos of 10 Days Healthy Eating Challenge.
My goal is to eat more fruit and veggies and I tried some new recipes to see if my family would like it.

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6

Day 7

Day 8

Day 9

Day 10 

Thanks for reading and watching.

Project: Dividend Stocks for Teenager July Dividends update

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

We didn't purchase any new stocks this month. Although she has enough money to invest in her bank account due to her low spendings (and me paying most of her bills right now :)). Next month she will need to purchase books for school.

August 7 is going to be one year since we purchased her first 7 stocks. At least 3 of them (T, JNJ and SE) earned 25% or close to 25%. I am thinking I might sell them and rebalance her portfolio. By doing this we will collect earnings and we can add an extra stock to her portfolio. I think she wants to do it. But we will see how market will act in next week.

Overall portfolio gain so far is +12.98%, the only stock which is lacking is still LHO.

July Dividends was only LHO $19.46

Here is her 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

19.11

42.47

53.88

19.46

Total

247.03

Thanks for reading.

Stocks I bought and sold this week

This week I sold 206 shares of AUY to collect my profits. I hold this stock for over a year and earned about 54% in earnings. 

I bought 3 stocks this week:

95 shares of F at $12.68

I already have shares of Ford in my portfolio but I like dividends and this is one of these stocks which I probably will just keep forever.

100 shares if RCII at $10.86

This one I will watch for a while and if it goes up, I will sell it.

13 shares of GILD at $79.48

same plan as RCII

I am still watching WFC, MGA and VOD but it will be August purchases unless something else will catch my attention. I will keep posting my watch list if I have enough updates.

Thanks for reading and please share your thoughts.

Loyal3 July Purchases and Dividends

I opened my Loyal3 account in October 2015 and I keep truck of my posts here. 

July Purchases
$100 - FOX - Twenty First Century Fox
$100 - DIS - Disney
$61 - M - Macy's

Total of $261.00

July Dividends:

GPS	$1.83
DIS	$0.73
STOR	$0.63
KHC	$0.37
NOK	$3.56
M	$1.81
Total	$8.93

Thanks for reading.

My stock watch list for this week

If you regularly read my blog, you noticed that I try to find stocks which pay dividends but also trading lower than 1 year target and close to 52 weeks low.

Below is a list of stocks I found so far for this week

symbol	name	category	price as of 7/15/16	years of dividends	1 year target	dividend yield	$1000 hypothetical value in 1 year
CCL	Carnival	cruise	$45.32	>15 years	$57.20	2.80%	$1,262.14
WFC	Wells Fargo	bank industry	$47.41	>15 years	$53.45	3.14%	$1,127.40
VLO	Valero	gas	$49.94	>15 years	$63.71	4.87%	$1,275.73
RCII	Rent a center	rent to own	$13.16	6 years	$21.40	2.37%	$1,626.14
MGA	Magna Intern	Auto parts(canada)	$37.48	>15 years	$51.09	2.74%	$1,363.13
VOD	Vodafone	communications	$30.65	>15 years	$38.23	5.36%	$1,247.31

I already have CCL, WFC and VLO in my portfolio but I still like to add more.

I watch RCII for a while and thinking to buy just a little. I like VOD dividends.

What stocks are on your watch list for this week?

Please share.

Thanks for reading.