Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Project: Dividends Stocks to pick for teenager (current market)

I am creating a dividends stock list for my daughter.

She is 18 years old. Luckily she has 9.5k in savings for her future college use in two years.
I am suggesting her to invest in dividend stocks for now.

She doesn't believe in dividends investments and she doesn't have much interest. I will be the one who will be managing her account and just showing her the progress.

I plan to invest her 9.5k in $1,200 increments, so it means she can own about 8 companies for now.

My minimum goal is to make her money work by earning dividends because she has two years ahead of her. This is why I mostly want to concentrate on stocks, which earn more than 3% yield.

Maximum goal is to earn on market fluctuations because I plan to pick stocks, which are trading at their lowest or close to lowest now and sell them when they reach near their 1 year target.

Below is my list for my daughter as of today August 4 market.

As you read above she doesn't know much about stock market and doesn't want to learn at this moment, so I made my picks based on my watch list and I chose criteria which would be easy to explain to her at this moment such as dividend yield and 1 year target price.
I will have to explain her that 1 year target price might happen or not but I believe that stocks I picked have some potential and pretty safe to invest. Out of my list she will have to pick 8 stocks, which I will purchase for her.

If some stocks will reach target, I will sell it and create a new list for her to pick a new stock.

I would really appreciate your comments and suggestions because I really want this project to succeed and I want to prove to my daughter that dividends stocks investment can be good. Please let me know if you have some stocks in mind, which I might have missed.

symbolnamecurrent price1 year targetdividend yeild
Natural Gas
SESpectra Energy$28.97$36.305.00%
CNPCenterpoint Energy$18.86$22.005.40%
KMIKinder Morgan$33.66$46.305.60%
Drugs
GSKGlaxoSmithKline plc$43.45$45.005.70%
Gold and Natural Resourses
AUYYamana Gold$1.82$4.212.90%
BBLBHP Billiton$36.13$46.507.10%
Manufacturer
CATCaterpillar$76.60$82.004.00%
Canadian Banks
BNSBank of Nova Scotia$48.80$73.834.50%
RYRoyal Bank of Canada$58.04$89.654.10%
CMCanadian Bank of Commerce$70.56$105.005.10%
TDToronto Dominion Bank$40.09$60.404.10%
BMOBank of Montreal$55.49$83.904.50%
Oil and Gas
COPConocoPhillips$49.87$71.155.70%
BPBritish Petroleum$36.54$41.586.60%
XOMExxon$77.17$90.533.70%
NENoble Corp$11.47$16.5012.20%
CVXChevron$85.21$106.214.70%
Consumers Goods
PGThe Procter & Gamble Company$75.91$85.503.30%
JNJJohnson & Johnson$99.80$109.593.00%
Stores
WMTWalmart$72.25$80.242.70%
Wireless
TATT$34.58$37.175.50%
VZVerizon$46.67$51.244.80%
Entertainment and Toys
SEASSeaWorld$17.68$23.094.70%
MATMattel $22.62$28.006.50%
Drinks
KOCoca Cola$41.85$45.263.30%
Hotels properties
LHOLaSalle Hotel properties$32.85$39.505.30%
Cars
FFord$14.91$17.414.20%


Tuesday, July 7, 2015

June Passive Income Progress

June just flew by like a one day due to the fact that kids were out of school, my daughter's graduation, my mom's visit, our trip to Florida and our rental house back to market for new tenants, etc...

Unfortunately I didn't sell or buy any stocks in June. I had too many planned expenses such as car maintenance repairs/tire changes, yearly home warranty/insurance payments, tickets to Florida, etc... But at least my dividends income was automatically reinvested, which is always good. 

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

Dividends received in June:

CNP$49.24
ESV$4.50
EC$31.19
F$22.80
FTR$27.91
JNJ$15.00
MAT$31.43
MCD$28.90
PEP$15.42
PFE$14.65
RIG$6.00
RYAM$1.90
RYN$13.20
TGT$10.40
UL$16.09
WU$9.58
Total$298.21

It was a great month in dividends earnings! Looking back into 2014, I doubled up my last year dividends income.

My dividend income 2014 vs 2015 so far:
2014JanFebMarchAprMayJuneJulyAugSeptOctNovDec
$48.61$12.44$63.58$90.04$65.67$126.98$122.68$118.36$166.28$93.18$123.70$263.68
Total$1,295.20
2015JanFebMarchAprMayJuneJulyAugSeptOctNovDec
$78.69106.39333.50150.77128.34298.21
Year to date$1,095.90

Additional passive income or free money from different financial institutions:

I earned an interest                                $21.17
points on my Amex card                        $17.36
points on my Discover card                    $11.47
JC Penney/Kohl's                                  $20.00  

My total financial passive income for the month of June was $368.21

At this moment my goal is to have $1k in monthly passive income from dividends and other financial institutions.

Thanks for reading and please share your thoughts and progress.



Sunday, June 28, 2015

My Weekly Stock List (6/28/)


My Weekly Stock list for upcoming week:

VTR - real estate investment trust in healthcare industry 4.8% $62.79 
WYNN - casino industry 1.9% $96.50 
PPL - utility, electricity and natural gas 4.9% $29.75 
ETR - electric distribution 4.6% $70.51 
SE - natural gas 4.5% $32.80 
PAA - natural gas 6.2% $44.08 


I keep thinking about selling my shares of TGT and DRI because I bought them when they were trading at their lowest and if I sell right now I can use this money to buy other stocks, which are selling at their lowest. 

What stocks are on your buy/sell list this week? Please share.

Thanks for reading.




Sunday, June 14, 2015

May Passive Income Progress

With my daughter's high school graduation I am a little late to report my May Passive Income Progress.

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

In May I sold shares of EXPE and PETS, bought more shares of CNP and added a new position in HOG.

Dividends received in May:

BMO$16.05
DRI$18.70
KMI$31.76
NE$11.28
PETS$19.34
PG$16.70
TD$14.51
Total$128.34

My dividend income 2014 vs 2015 so far:

2014JanFebMarchAprMayJuneJulyAugSeptOctNovDec
$48.61$12.44$63.58$90.04$65.67$126.98$122.68$118.36$166.28$93.18$123.70$263.68
Year to date$1,295.20
2015JanFebMarchAprMayJuneJulyAugSeptOctNovDec
$78.69106.39333.50150.77128.34
Year to date$820.49
Additional passive income or free money from different financial institutions:

I earned an interest                                $23.40
points on my Amex card                        $15.40
points on my Discover card                    $14.60

I received a gift card from Palais Royal      
and Academy                                        $20.00  

Kroger card cash back                            $10.00
Ebates                                                   $19.49

My total financial passive income for the month of May was $229.70

At this moment my goal is to have $1k in monthly passive income from dividends and other financial institutions.

Thanks for reading and please share your thoughts and progress.

Sunday, May 31, 2015

My weekly Stock List (6/1)


My watch list for upcoming week:
BAX, BNS, HCP, NSC, OHI, VNP, WYNN

My favorite out of this list is BNS

What do you think about my list? What stocks are on your watch list? Please share.

Sunday, May 10, 2015

My Weekly Stock List (5/10)

If I sell one of my stocks I might have cash to buy a new one.

My stock list didn't change much since last posting.

Mostly Canadian stocks right now.

BNS, RY, BMO, BCE, CM, CNP, HOG

What are you planning to buy this week? Please share.