September 2021 Dividend Report (Record month!)

Let me start this post by saying that I’m really excited about the results of last month! As the title indicates this is an absolute record month for me and really boosted my confidence in staying on the DGI path that I am on together with my family.

As September came to a close the Summer season is definitely over and we are getting more and more rain & cold. Autumn is shaping up and with the exclusion of some sunny days its not my favourite time of the year.

Restrictions are slowly being lifted across the country and I have been returning to the office more and more. My regular schedule is now two days at the office (Monday and Friday) and three days at home. I also notice that with more frequent contac with other people my spirits also have been lifted. I really am a social / people person at heart 🙂

Enough of the small talk, that’s (probably) not what you came here to see. Onwards to the dividend results!

Ticker	Amount (€)
INTC	1.98
AFL	8.73
ADM	18.6
PFE	14
UPS	5.87
IBM	11.79
3M	12.77
WBA	17.17
PRU	15.76
ORI	12.96
O	3.89
ED	7.24
VFC	2.12
UNH	4.20
QCOM	9.35
JNJ	2.28
CWEN	1.20
RelX	8.52
Unilever	46.95
Ahold	54.82
Viatris	0.47
ASR	34.85
WKL	10.56
Total	€306.08

Holy smokes, look at that total!

23 companies (!) deposited their dividends into my brokerage account, ready to be reinvested (manually) in other or the same dividend stocks. New payer this month is ASR and keen observers will see that I increased my positions in Unilever and Ahold significantly. Together with biannual payers like RELX and WKL this months packs a wickedly awesome punch! This month represents my absolute record dividend amount ever AND the first time I’ve crossed the €300 mark!

Here are the visuals:

Even the scales needed to be adjusted!

And working towards my 2021 goal of €1750 in dividends received:

Looking great!

And (inspired by Engineering Dividends) a new graph with my annual dividend totals:

Essentially already at the same level as last year’s total.

How amazing are these results! I actually can’t believe it! We’re done with month #9 and we still have three months to go!

September 2020: €157,20
September 2021: €306,08

A whopping increase of 94,71%% compared to last year!

The progress is definitely real going through my fifth year as a dividend growth investor starting back in March of 2017 (with a monthly total of €1,98).

As always my results are converted from their base currency to euro and are post-tax.

I would love to hear your thoughts on the awesome results of this month and ofcourse on your own results. Please let me know in the comments!

Paying off (part of) our mortgage

It’s been a while (Dutch) since I lasted posted something unrelated to my stock buys, received dividend or my failing crypto currencies. As part of our journey to more freedom and financial independance I chronicle my DGI journey in generating monthly dividend income, but that’s not the entire story. Another part is me continuously improving our financial situation by optimizing our cash outflow. One large expense we have is our 30-year mortgage on our house.

When we bought our house in 2006 we split our mortgage into two separate parts; the largest portion is a “savings”-mortgage (spaar-hypotheek) and a smaller portion that’s essentially rent (aflosvrij) since you only pay the interest and not the principal.

The latter part of our mortgage consisted of no less than €68.000 euro. Meaning that at the end of our 30 years of mortgage, we would have payed €89.760 (bruto) in interest and still be €68.000 in debt! Talk about a money making machine for the bank / mortgage company!

Unfortunately, the first ten or something years of our mortgage I wasn’t as financially educated as I am now, so we didn’t do much in order to optimize the situation. When we began to look more seriously at our finances (and our salaries were starting to increase) we decided to see what we could do about the “rent”-part of our mortgage and we started to make additional payments to slowly lower the monthly interest and whittle down the principal.

That is until last friday 17th of September 2021. On this day we made our final payments and succesfully payed of that part of our mortgage! Going from paying €250,- of interest monthly to €0 was a long process, but we are so happy and proud that we made it!

Next step, investigating what we can do about the other part of our mortgage. To be continued!

August 2021 Dividend Report

Summer has come and gone and we are living in the final days of nice weather. Hopefully we’ll get a nice “after-summer” but I’m not holding my breath even though I’m typing this in about 24 degrees celsius 🙂

Here are my results for Augusts 2021:

Ticker	Amount (€)
T	26.05
GIS	3.64
CVS	10.01
TXN	7.39
ABBV	28.28
OHI	13.04
PG	5.02
HRL	1.76
O	3.9
Total	99.09

Darnit, so close to the 100,- mark

9 companies deposited their dividends into my brokerage account, ready to be reinvested (manually) in other or the same dividend stocks. No new payers this month and no real additional shares bought in these existing positions. I had hoped (and not calculated) that my sub €100,- months would be over but here we are, problems of luxury for sure! 🙂

Here are the visuals (I included larger images this time, hope you like it!):

Look at the pretty colors!

And working towards my 2021 goal of €1750 in dividends received:

We need those big months (September & December) to make it!

And (inspired by Engineering Dividends) a new graph with my annual dividend totals:

Heading towards last years total with 4 months to go!

It’s not that far removed from the €115,34 last month. We’re done with month #8!

August 2020: €106,53
August 2021: €99,09

A decrease crease of -8,89% compared to last year, due to a change in payout schedule (which will hit next month ;)). Nevertheless annoying to see negative numbers!

The progress is still very real even though this is already my fifth year as a dividend growth investor since starting back in March of 2017 (with a monthly total of €1,98).

As always my results are converted from their base currency to euro and are post-tax.

I would love to hear your thoughts on the awesome results of this month and ofcourse on your own results. Please let me know in the comments!

These are my buys from Q2 2021

My quest to bring balance to the force, erhm in my portfolio continues!

To be honest, it’s prety much the same as the previous quarter with me buying the same companies but in different amounts. I’m heading towards a better geo-diversificaton with these non-US stock buys.

Date	Ticker	# Shares
26/04/2021	Unilever PLC	16
02/06/2021	Ahold Delhaize N.V.	34
23/06/2021	Unilever PLC	17

Love me some stocks!

These recent buys have also significantly improved my total forward income. Since my forward income is dynamically generated and based on all current stocks in my portfolio I’ll just share that number. This has now (including all my buys up until now) grown to: €1805,- (post-tax).

The €2000 mark is in my sights, how awesome is that!?

What I can tease is that my Q3 buys will feature more different companies with both US and non-US stock buys. I’ll take my leave with this small teaser, so I’ll see you again soon with my dividend earnings from August 2021!

Thanks for reading, I’d love to hear your opinion on my buys for Q2!

July 2021 Dividend Report

It’s summer! I hope all of you are enjoying some vacation and relaxation time, it’s something we definetely need! Even I’m somewhat late after coming back from my vacation in Southern France, I really wanted to show my results because its awesome to see money rollin’ into your bank accounts while your out having a nice vacation.

Here are my vacation results!

Ticker	Amount (€)
PEP	3.85
PPL	6.83
IRM	26.64
KMB	4.07
HASI	3.75
LEG	12.07
CAH	9.17
O	3.9
CVS	10.09
ADP	5.98
MDT	2.39
SPG	4.03
FDX	3.75
UPS	5.87
CSCO	12.95
Total	€115.34

Nice!

No less then 15 companies deposited their dividends into my brokerage account, ready to be reinvested (manually) in other or the same dividend stocks. No new payers this month but we did see some nice increases for example a 15% growth from FedEx.

EDIT 20/8/2021: I totally forgot (different account) that this month is the month I also receive dividend from my employeree share benefit program, this was my first (annual) payment totalling €3,13 bringing my months total to €118,47!

Here are the visuals (I included larger images this time, hope you like it!):

Blue is my new favorite color!

And working towards my 2021 goal of €1750 in dividends received:

Still on track, but it will be close!

And (inspired by Engineering Dividends) a new graph with my annual dividend totals:

Already very near to my 2019 totals with 4 months left to go!

It’s far removed from the €199,04 last month but nonethless compated to last year a nice growth rate! We’re done with month #7!

June 2020: €95,89
June 2021: €118,47

A very comfortable increase of 20,28% compared to last year, mainly due to dividend raises and some small expansions. The tri-fecta at work!

The progress is still very real even though this is already my fifth year as a dividend growth investor since starting back in March of 2017 (with a monthly total of €1,98).

As always my results are converted from their base currency to euro and are post-tax.

I would love to hear your thoughts on the awesome results of this month and ofcourse on your own results. Please let me know in the comments!

June 2021 Dividend Report

Ah yes, July is upon us which means its not only vacation time but also time to push out my results for June 2021 before the holiday starts. I don’t know about you but I really had a great feeling about this month. I knew that I had the upcoming bi-annual payment of a my relatively new position in RELX but as you know I’ve been boosting my other European (Unilever, Ahold) positions as well and Unilever was also due for June.

Well, I wasn’t dissapointed! I’m really, really glad to report that I had my best dividend month ever! Let me show you the results:

Ticker	Amount (€)
INTC	1.93
AFL	8.49
ADM	18.05
PFE	13.6
UPS	5.69
IBM	11.5
3M	12.44
WBA	9.51
PRU	15.58
ORI	12.62
O	3.78
ED	7.13
VFC	2.09
UNH	4.15
QCOM	9.18
JNJ	2.21
CWEN	1.16
RelX	19.78
Unilever	39.69
Viatris	0.46
Total	€199,04

Holy smokes Batman!

No less then 20 companies deposited their dividends on my brokerage account, ready to be reinvested (manually) in other or the same dividend stocks. Astute readers will see not one, but two new payers in the list. This is the first dividend received from RelX and from Pfizer spin-off Viatris. Nice!

Here are the visuals:

Go blue!

And working towards my 2021 goal of €1750 in dividends received:

This puts me right back on track!

And (inspired by Engineering Dividends) a new graph with my annual dividend totals:

Already heading towards 2019 total at the 2021 half-year mark!

That’s right, a RECORD-BREAKING month and only €0,96 shy of breaking the €200 mark (without any special dividends either)! How amazing is that in my fifth year as a DGI investor I’m already so close to breaking €200 in a single month! We’re done with month #6 and as you can see I’m back on track with my yearly goal for received dividend as well.

June 2020: €153,26
June 2021: €199,04

An awesome increase of 29,87% (actually around my yearly average so far) compared to last year, mainly due to the two new payers (RelX and Viatris) and the expansion of my Unilever position.

The progress is still very real even though this is already my fifth year as a dividend growth investor since starting back in March of 2017 (with a monthly total of €1,98).

As always my results are converted from their base currency to euro and are post-tax.

I would love to hear your thoughts on the awesome results of this month and ofcourse on your own results. Please let me know in the comments!

May 2021 Dividend Report

Another month has gone by and I’m actually pretty late with my monthly report. It’s almost time to make the next one! So without further ado I present to you my results for May 2021:

Ticker	Amount (€)
T	25.72
GIS	3.6
CVS	9.89
TXN	7.12
ABBV	27.25
OHI	12.56
PG	4.86
HRL	1.7
O	3.78
WKL	17.4
Total	€113,88

No less then 10 companies deposited their dividends on my brokers account, ready to be reinvested (manually) in other dividend stocks.

Here are the visuals:

Look at that love blue color!

And working towards my 2021 goal of €1750 in dividends received:

Running behind schedule

And (inspired by Engineering Dividends) a new graph with my annual dividend totals:

Already twice my total of 2018!

So we’re done with with month #4 and we are at 31% of our goal for 2021. Slightly behind schedule, but not by much.

May 2020: €107,27
May 2021: €113,88
Total dividend ever: €3479,51

A small increase of 6,16% compared to last year even though there is a new payer (WKL). A quick investigation showed that its also due to a shift in payment of Ahold so no real worries there. So far my average growth rate from January through May has been a comfortable 30,09%.

The progress is still very real even though this is already my fifth year as a dividend growth investor since starting back in March of 2017 (with a monthly total of €1,98).

As always my results are converted from their base currency to euro and are post-tax.

I would love to hear your thoughts on the results of this month and ofcourse on your own results. Please let me know in the comments!

These are my buys from Q1 2021

A lot of you have asked my about my own purchases in the past few months. Due to time constraints I haven’t been able to churn out monthly posts about my buys so I decided to post them every quarter, just like I did last time. This gives me some more ‘wiggle room’ and still keeps you updated, my fellow FIRE friends!

As you’ve read in the past I’ve been working on my geographical diversification, with a focus on non-US stocks. When I previously did an analysis on my portfolio, one fellow DGI investor also noted that I relied heavily on US stocks. Something which I also discovered and was already working on, as you can see in my buys from Q4 2021.

So basically I continued on my set course and added some more Dutch/EU dividend stocks:

Date	Ticker	# Shares
26/01/2021	Ahold Delhaize N.V.	34
01/03/2021	Ahold Delhaize N.V.	34
24/03/2021	Unilever PLC	17

Love me some stocks!

I’m still adding 650,- euro every month and since my broker doesn’t support DRIPS I manually reinvest every dividend received. The awesome thing to behold is that with my growth over the past few years is that, on average, I receive 130,- euro in dividends every month. So that means I add about 780 euro’s of fresh capital to my portfolio every month!

So where these my only buys? Yes and no, they were my only buys on the stock market but wih the Crypto market going insane I also added some capital to that portfolio. I’ve added VET, BTT, and HOT to my portfolio. I might add some more on dips as the market continues to be extremely volatile.

And last but not least I made one more buy, a real silver bullion! More of an experiment really, since I’ve been reading about investing in silver for about three years. I’ve bought a Canadian Maple Leaf from 2014, the birth year of my eldest daughter to add some sentiment to it (and maybe justify the purchase to my wife :)). I really like it, but so far it hasn’t triggered me to fill up an entire pirate chest of these coins.

There you have it, my buys from the first quarter of 2021!

April 2021 Dividend Report

Let’s start with mentioning that thankfully no one else in our family was infected with Corona and that we could succesfully end our home quarantaine last month. It’s amazing to me what kind of mental affects one can experience due to a cominbation of worrying about the safety of your family but also not being able to leave your house.

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Now that situation is behind us its time to focus on positivity and enjoying our time. We’ve been able to spend more time in and outside of the house and with me working from home, the additional time spent with my family has really been great. Besides more quality time it also continues to amaze me seeing our dividends grow and enter our brokerage account. 🙂

Without further delay, here are my results for April 2021:

Ticker	Amount (€)
PEP	3.68
PPL	6.88
IRM	26.53
KMB	4.09
HASI	3.74
LEG	11.33
CAH	8.94
O	3.83
CSCO	12.7
ADP	6.03
MDT	2.17
SPG	3.65
FDX	3.28
Ahold	39.44
Total	€136.29

No less then 14 companies deposited their dividends on my brokers account, ready to be reinvested (manually) in other stocks.

Here are the visuals:

And working towards my 2021 goal of €1750 in dividends received:

And (inspired by Engineering Dividends) a new graph with my annual dividend totals:

So we’re done with with month #4 and we are at 31% of our goal for 2021. Slightly behind schedule, but not by much.

April 2020: €93,89
April 2021: €136,29
Total dividend ever: €3365,63

An huge increase of 45,16% compared to last year so thats really something to celebrate! Since my focus of the recent months has been to bring more balance between US and non-US stocks, my additional investments in Ahold Delhaize really packed a punch this month!

The progress is still very real even though this is already my fifth year as a dividend growth investor since starting back in March of 2017 (with a monthly total of €1,98).

As always my results are converted from their base currency to euro and are post-tax.

I would love to hear your thoughts on the results of this month and ofcourse on your own results. Please let me know in the comments!

March 2021 Dividend Report

Hello my dear readers, followers, commenters, lurkers or a combination of the above. March has come and gone and it’s time for another update of my dividend results. Before that I would like to mention that I intended to comment more on your blogs as promised last month but unfortunately Covid-19 hit our home and my eldest has tested positive for Corona. While it always was a possibillity with going to school , it was still quite the shock when we got the news (my wife tested negative).

As far as health goes we can report that it looked like a severe flu with lots of couching and a high fever. Not unlike some flu’s my eldest has had before in our household. When someone in your home is infected with Corona you get all sorts of procedures and advice about isolating the person, etc. Thats really not possible with two kids below 7 years of age. So it was an “accepted risk” that we would also get it, but thankfully we seem to have been spared an infection so far (knock on wood please!). A second test performed on me and Mrs. Bot turned out negative as well last friday.

We have been in quarantine for about 10 days now and are going through new and final tests coming thursday, if we test negative we can break quarantine and enjoy our freedom again. I’ve never ever looked forward so much to just taking a walk around the block like this week. Funny how you always take health and freedom for granted until its taken (temporarily) away.

Even with all this, I’m thankful to know that our little snowball has kept growing and that our dividends have still rolled in like clockwork:

Ticker	Amount (€)
INTC	1.94
AFL	8.60
ADM	18.36
PFE	13.88
UPS	5.78
IBM	11.59
3M	12.62
WBA	9.63
PRU	15.47
ORI	12.83
O	3.83
ED	7.17
VFC	2.10
UNH	3.58
QCOM	8.91
JNJ	2.16
CWEN	1.15
Unilever	21.76
Total	€ 161.36

No less then 18 companies sent me a nice paycheck with a grand total of €161,36. This is my second highest dividend received ever! The only month that has ever been higher was September 2019 and that was due to a special dividend from ORI.

Änd the monthly visual:

Look at the pretty colors!

And working towards my 2021 goal of €1750 in dividends received:

And (inspired by Engineering Dividends) a new graph with my annual dividend totals:

So we’re done with with month #3 and we are at 23% of our goal for 2021. Decent enough for the first quarter!.

March 2020: €137,27
March 2021: €161,36
Total dividend ever: €3229,34

An nice increase of 17,55% compared to last year so I can’t complain about that. As noted last month some payouts are now in different months compared to last year so that skews the results a bit.

The progress is still very real even though this is already my fifth year as a dividend growth investor since starting back in March of 2017 (with a monthly total of €1,98).

As always my results are converted from their base currency to euro and are post-tax.

I would love to hear your thoughts on the results of this month and ofcourse on your own results. Please let me know in the comments!