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:

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	445.07	240.49	104.10
									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.

Project: Dividend Stocks for Teenager May 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 stocks in May. Hopefully she will decide to purchase more stocks soon because she got a summer job at a restaurant and she plans to work there through the year too.

I suggested to open Roth IRA account since she started working but so far she declined the idea of saving money for retirement. 

Overall portfolio gain so far is +8.36%, the only stock which is lacking is still LHO.

May Dividends:

PG	$11.58
RY	$12.64
T	$18.25
Total	$42.47

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

19.11

42.47

Total

173.69

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