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.

Project: Dividend Stocks for Teenager August 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 +12.82%

August Dividends:

PG	$11.67
RY	$12.89
T	$18.47
Total	$43.03

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

Total

290.06

Thanks for reading.

Stocks I bought today 8/26/2016

It's almost end of the month and I finally made some purchases for this month.
Today I bought

36 shares of VOD at $30.87

32 shares of KR at $32.57

If you read my blog you know I was planning to buy VOD - Vodafone for a while because it's trading low and has good dividends (4.93%).

Kroger was kind of last minute purchase. I noticed that this stock is trading low and this is one of my favorite stores to shop for grocery besides Aldi. It doesn't pay much dividends (1.49%), but I like this company.

Thanks for reading,

How to Start Investing in Stock Market with $10 and hopefully earn $$$ - Simple Guide for Teenager Investing

My 15 y.o. son prefers Youtube to anything when he needs to learn something new. We are about to start investing small amounts into Loyal3 account with him. So I created a video, which hopefully will help him to start investing and learn a little more about stocks investing.

Find video here

Loyal3 August Purchases and Dividends

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

This month I decided to increase my monthly investing balance from $250 to $300

August Purchases
$100 - FOX - Twenty First Century Fox
$100 - FTR - Frontier Communications
$102 - NOK - Nokia
Total of $302.00


August Dividends

AAPL	$2.13
YUM	$0.34
Total	$2.47

Thanks for reading.

My Stocks Watch List for this Week August 15 - August 19 2016

It's kind of hard to pick a stock right now.

My Stock Watch List for this week:

BMY - Bristol-Myers Squibb Company - yield 2.51%
FLO - Flowers Food - yield 4.31%
NEA - Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal Income Fund - yield 6.4% - I added this fund to my watch list after I read a blog post of My Dividend Pipeline.
F - Ford Motors - yield 4.87%
VOD - Vodafone - yield 4.95%
WFC - Wells Fargo - yield 3.16%

What stocks are on your watch list this week?

Thanks for reading


 

Jordan's Stock Trading and Watch List for Upcoming Week August 8 2016

I am starting a new series of posts about my boyfriend Jordan's investing into stock market. It is kind of different from my investing style but I thought that some of you might be interested.

He is following charts from book "Rule#1" by Phil Town. So he basically reviews stocks MACD, Stochastics and Moving Average charts. Theses charts show when a stock is overbought or oversold. So when charts say a stock is oversold, he buys and he sells when the chart shows that the stock is overbought. Although he keeps some stocks for dividends earnings.

This week he purchased:

DIS at $95.90, PM at $99.71, LUV at $35.50 and BMY at $63.20

He sold:

FIT - He bought it at $12.15 and sold at $15.57, earning 28% in 1.5 months.

His watch list for upcoming week:

LYB, PPG, VMC, CCI, EXP

Thanks for reading and please share your opinion.