Project: Dividend Stocks for Teenager September 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. 

Overall portfolio gain so far is +14.95%, which is very close to 2k.

The other day I saw my daughter paystub, she works as hostess at Asian Restaurant, and her total earnings for this year were almost identical to her total gain of her portfolio. We are not even counting dividends! So after I explained it to her, I think she likes her stock market experience so far.

I am still trying to decide if we need to sell some of positions and collect gains or just keep them for now.

Like for example SE (Spectra Energy) has 44% gain.  So we can sell shares she has and buy shares of two new different stocks which trading at lowest right now. I might do this but I am not sure. Spectra has good dividends and I know this is a good company. What do you think?

Her other stock, which is 42% gain is Amazon, but this one she wants to keep for sure, she said. It was her totally own pick(non dividend stock) and she believes in Amazon keeps growing... :)

September Dividends:

EMR	$12.83
JNJ	$10.71
SE	$18.40
XOM	$12.45
F	$14.85
Total	$69.24

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

53.88

19.46

43.03

69.24

Total

359.3

Thanks for reading.

Stocks I bought today 9/30/2016

Well it was the last day of the month and I didn't want to finish this month without new purchases.

Today I bought

34 shares of VOD at $29.26

25 shares of BMY at $54.10

21 shares of WFC at $44.48

Thanks for reading and please share your purchases

My stock watch list for upcoming week September 12 - 16 2016

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 upcoming week

symbol	name	category	price as of 9/10/16	years of dividends	1 year target	dividend yield	$1000 hypothetical value in 1 year
FTR	Frontier	communications	4.56	10 years	$5.85	8.81%	$1,282.89
VOD	Vodafone	communications	$29.67	>15 years	$38.15	5.36%	$1,285.81
VIAB	Viacom	entertainment	$37.16	7 years	$46.58	4.05%	$1,253.50
RGR	Sturm, Roger	guns	57.88	>15 years	$80.00	3.28%	$1,382.17
CCL	Carnival	cruise	$44.37	>15 years	$57.20	2.80%	$1,289.16
BMY	Bristol-Myers Squibb Company	medical	$55.66	>15 years	$68.85	2.70%	$1,236.97
MGA	Magna Intern	Auto parts(canada)	$39.86	>15 years	$51.70	2.47%	$1,297.04
WHR	Whirlpool	consumer	166.72	>15 years	209.71	2.29%	$1,257.86
KR	Kroger	grocery store	$31.51	10 years	$39.19	1.48%	$1,243.73
DIS	Walt Disney	entertainment	$92.42	>15 years	$109.52	1.51%	$1,185.02
FOX	Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc.	entertainment	24.13	>15 years	$36.00	1.44%	$1,491.92

What stocks are on your watch list for this week?

Please share.

Thanks for reading.

Loyal3 September purchases and dividends

I opened my Loyal3 account in October 2015 and I keep updates here. 

September Purchases
$150 - FOX - Twenty First Century Fox
$152 - DIS - The Walt Disney
Total of $302.00

September Dividends

FTR	$12.72
WMT	$1.25
KSS	$2.06
Total	$16.03

Thanks for reading.

August 2016 Dividends and Passive Income Progress

In August I bought 32 shares of KR, 32 shares of VOD and 13 shares of GILD(additional). 

I had post about KR and VOD here.

I bought more shares of GILD just before August was over, so I didn't make a post about this purchase.

I also made purchase in my Loyal3 account. This month I increased my monthly investing balance by $50, total of $300 per month.
You can read my post here.

August was not big dividends month for me.

Dividends received in August 2016:

AAPL	$7.83
BMO	$17.29
DRI	$19.82
KMI	$8.80
NE	$0.65
PG	$17.60
RY	$11.93
T	$14.06
TD	$15.24
YUM	$0.34
Total	$113.56

This is 7% decrease comparing to August 2015, which was due to decrease in dividends payments KMI and NE.

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	113.56
									Year to date			$1,732.44

Additional passive income or free money from different financial institutions:

Interest:                                                          $12.85

Points AMEX                                                  $13.78

Points Discover                                              $10.12

Ebates - get cash for shopping online                      $14.14
My total financial passive income for the month of August was $164.45

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

July          $278.08

Thanks for reading and please share your thoughts and progress.