And POOF(!) another month is gone, winter is finally over and spring has sprung (or something like that). Time for one of my favourite things to blog about, my dividend income.
Regular visitors of this blog also know that this post is going to be a special one. It’s the first time I can do a year-over-year comparison with the previous year. My DGI journey started in february last year and I received my first dividend in March.
My total for March 2017 was: €1,98
Let us see how we did in March 2018. A total of 7 companies paid me this month:
| Date | Ticker | Shares | Amount (€) |
| 01/03/2018 | INTC | 8 | 1.65 |
| 01/03/2018 | PFE | 9 | 2.11 |
| 12/03/2018 | IBM | 2 | 2.05 |
| 13/03/2018 | ADM | 18 | 4.13 |
| 15/03/2018 | O | 23 | 3.47 |
| 19/03/2018 | VFC | 6 | 1.9 |
| 21/03/2018 | QCOM | 6 | 2.35 |
| €17,66 |
Yes! A total of €17,66 (after taxes) of free money was deposited in my account. The third highest dividend I have ever received. 🙂
My year to date graph looks like this:
This brings me that much closer to my 2018 goal:
The first quarter of the year has pased and I’m on 23% of my goal for 2018, so it looks like I’m on the right track!
Total dividend YTD: €45,70
Total dividend received ever: €134,49
And now….the big moment, my YoY-comparison!
March 2017: €1,98
March 2018: €17,66
A whopping 891,9% increase compared to last year!
I knew it was going to be an increase, but never expected it to be this much. As you can understand, I’m pretty happy with my results at the moment!
How about you dear readers, how was your March?
Financially free in 10 years 
Congrats on the growth 🙂 Impressive if you look from the side. My income from US stocks grew from 13 EUR to 21 EUR if compared 2017Q4 to 2018Q1. Latest purchases will grow it further. Its nice to see that snowball in action 🙂 Although growht YoY will more and more decrease with time/
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Yes, the first year comparisons are going to be great but the next ones likely a whole lot lower. But for now I’m enjoying the moment!
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Nice work sir. Always fun to compare YoY. Makes for the best comparison. Tom
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Hey Tom, thanks!
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Wow! Coming up on an almost 1k% increase of year to year growth. That is amazing! And by the look of the chart, looks like it is your second highest ever after last month. But I could be wrong. Keep that growth up! You are well on your way to hitting your goals.
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Hey Daze, your absolutely right about the chart. Cool to see that you follow along 🙂
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I’ve never been really interested in dividend investing (always traded for capital gains). But now that I’m married, I’m thinking of going down this road so that my wife and I have some more financial stability.
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Hi Troy, there is a wealth of information and blogs out there to help you get started. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I’ll do my best to help you in any way that I can.
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Congrats on the growth – nice to see solid progress towards those 2018 goals!
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Hey Time, thanks for stopping by! So far so good in 2018 🙂
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Look at that dividend grow! Making some good strides here Mr.
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Thanks Team CF, let’s hope next year I can do it again.
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Great Month! It’s awesome that share 4 out of the 7 companies that paid you in March. Great year over year growth as well! Congrats! 😀
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Hey MDD, great to see you here! Great minds think a like right? 😉
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Great Job Mr. Robot! I really like the way your chart looks. It reminds me of Tron. Keep on the grind!
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Hey MH, same here! I really like the styling but coudn’t get the other graph in the same style. I have remedied that som my April report will be completely in TRON styling 🙂
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Still making solid progress I see, almost 900% YoY wow! You have a lot of nice companies I wish I had a share in, INTC, IBM, PFE and ADM are definitly on my watchlist! Thanks for the update!
DI
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Hey DI, thanks a lot! The first year comparisons will hopefully be something like this. Next year will be a lot more difficult!
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Not sure if my previous comment went through. If it did, feel free to delete this one. If not, then Congrats on the significant increase from last year. Not only did the income rise, but so did the number of companies that paid you dividends. I’m in a similar situation in that I won’t be able to make a yearly comparison until my next report.
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There was only one comment and I thank you for it! 🙂 It was awesome to make the comparison and I’m really looking forward to your next report!
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Woot nice robot! Great yr over yr growth too! Solid list of companiea paying ya.
Keep it up
Cheers
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Thanks CPI! I’m also pretty happy with the list, I’ll just keep on adding!
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Awesome, Mr. Robot! Your YoY growth is astronomical. Definitely take a moment to enjoy it. That’s a solid list of dividend payers, with fairly even distributions for you, too. I share the last 3 in your list. Needless to say you are well on your way to great things given your progress over the past year. Happy to see you now get to make those YoY comparisons… so much fun.
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Hi ED, nice to see you again! 🙂 Yes I’m really excited about the yoy comparisons. I decided to add the yearly and overall total as well to keep reminding me about the journey already made.
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