July 2018 Dividend Report

So after completing my buying spree last month I took some well deserved time off the grid. Well not completely off but far removed 🙂 After being back in the office for a week I really needed to readjust back into the groove. Although I love my job, it hit me again that it would be fantastic to truely be a master of your own time. Oh well, only thing I can do is do my utmost best to create my own future. For myself and for my family.

Cool thing about being a DGI investor is that you get paid for doing nothing! I estimated that I would earn about €1,- a day during my vacation totalling €21,-. Let’s see how well I estimated this.

A total of 8 companies payed me this month:

Date	Ticker	Shares	Amount (€)
03/07/2018	PPL	23	6.87
03/07/2018	PEP	5	3.37
04/07/2018	KMB	5	3.64
13/07/2018	HASI	15	3.59
16/07/2018	O	23	3.67
17/07/2018	CAH	5	1.73
26/07/20148	CSCO	10	2.4
27/07/2018	DIS	2	1.22
			€26,49

So this means I actually earned about 17,94 during my vacation. Not too shabby! For the sharp observer you can also notice that this €26,49 is my new alltime dividend record!

So this means my progress so far this year is coming along nicely:

And so far so good on my 2018 goals:

Total dividend YTD 2018: €142.
Total dividend received ever: €230,79.

And now….the big moment, my YoY-comparison!

July 2017: €6,55.
July 2018: €26,49.

Thats another amazing increase of 404,43% compared to last year! 

I’ll be off binge-commenting on your blogs now, I would love to hear your thoughts on your month (or mine)?

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These are my buys for July 2018 + Milestone reached!

Ah yes, a short and sweet post. I only posted my June results in the previous month and nothing more. I did however make a few buys last month and commented on a few of your blogs when I felt like it. For example on Engineering Dividends after being mentioned in his poem. I mean how often do you get to be in someone’s poem right? I also visited Tom over at Dividends Diversify, as he always has some great content there.

The reason for this “inactivity ” is simple: Vacation.

I’ve spent the last few weeks in the beautiful southern of France.

But right before I left I made some nice buys. Since this is a short and sweet post I won’t add the rationale this time, but be free to ask in the comments and I will happily explain my thoughts on the matter.

In total I added:

11/07/2018: 6 shares of AbbVie (ABBV) @ $95,24 adding $23,04 in forward income.

13/07/2018: 18 shares Pfizer (PFE) @ $37,25 adding $24,48 in forward income.

16/07/2018: 16 shares Iron Mountain (IRM) @ $36,50 adding $37,568 in forward income.

In total I added ($85,088-15%) $72,32 of forward income (post-tax) crossing the infamous $500 dollar threshold! I added 16,6% of forward income, completing the challenge set by BuyHoldLong.

So there you have it guys and gals, my new total forward income is now $435.78 +$72,32 = $508,10!

June 2018 Dividend Report

And BOOM, it’s july! Summer is really upon us as the temperature keeps rising and vacation time is around the corner. This year its going to be even more awesome when I realise that during my vacation I’ll earn €1,- a day when I’m on my holiday having fun!

Although we’re really looking forward to a well deserved vacation, its not our time yet. So here are the numbers for June. Alas no personal record for me this month (Solid second highest ever though!), but I’m still excited about the growth as you’ll see later in the post.

Date	Ticker	Shares	Amount (€)
01/06/2018	INTC	8	2.23
01/06/2018	PFE	9	1.74
06/06/2018	UN	10	3.96
08/06/2018	ADM	18	4.34
12/06/2018	IBM	2	2.27
17/06/2018	O	23	3.69
19/06/2018	VFC	6	2.02
21/06/2018	QCOM	6	2.72
			€ 22,97

So this means my progress so far this year is coming along nicely:

And so far so good on my 2018 goals:

We crossed the half year mark and I’m ahead of schedule on my 2018 dividend total!

Total dividend YTD 2018: €115,51 (which is almost €30 more then our 2017 total!)
Total dividend received ever: €204,30.

And now….the big moment, my YoY-comparison!

June 2017: €2,72
June 2018: €22,97

Thats another amazing increase of 844,49% compared to last year! 

How about you my dear readers / fellow bloggers, how was your June?

This is my (second) extra-large buy for June 2018

As I have hinted with the title of my previous blogpost, I also made a second buy this month. After recieving our holiday allowance in May we received our tax refund in June.

Out of the blue Mrs. Robot said: “Well, since our tax refund is in how about you spend €2000,- on our stock portfolio and we save the rest.” I totally did not see that one coming, but I love it none the less. Talk about another kicker to our portfolio! 🙂

So I immediately transferred half of that amount to our brokerage account (so she didn’t have time to reconsider), ready to deploy that capital! And it didn’t take me long to decide where to put that money.

	AbbVie
P/E (<20)	23,44
Yield (>2%)	4,13%
Payout Ratio (<75%)	49,2%
Increases (>= 5 year)	Aristocrat: 45 years
3-year DGR (>5%)	15,5% (couldn’t find the 5 year version)
EPS (>0)	$3,97
Valuation (<=10% > 52wk low)	25,44%

Seeing my above screener I realise that this stock defintely did not hit all my preferred metrics. But I have no issues with paying somewhat of a premium for this company. I intiated a position by buying 12 shares of AbbVie @ $93,05.

This new addition to my stock portfolio increases my forward income (with 12 x $3.84 – 15% = $39,17) from $396,74 to $435.78! 

I’ve got the $500 mark in my crosshairs!

 

 

This is my (first) extra-large buy for June 2018

It’s june and that means it is time for a new stock buy. The market has seen some volatility lately which made for some interesting opportunities.  After dropping a few hints here and there on your blogs (and on this one!) I finally entered the Utilities sector, BIG TIME. At least in a big way for me.

In the Netherlands your May paycheck also includes your holiday allowance. After some discussion with Mrs. Bot we decided to double the amount of capital to deploy this month. Awesome! Mrs. Bot is really getting on board with this whole DGI stock market thing so that bodes well for the future.

So what did I buy you ask? Well let me show you!

On 4/6/2018 I bought my first utility stock, PPL Corporation. I initated a position with 22 shares @ $27,-. As per usual the price immediately dropped afterwards with about $2. I really need to find out why this keeps happening 🙂

	PPL
P/E (<20)	15,88
Yield (>2%)	6,07%
Payout Ratio (<75%)	93,82%
Increases (>= 5 year)	6 years
5-year DGR (>5%)	1,6%
EPS (>0)	$1,70
Valuation (<=10% > 52wk low)	6,30%

I’m not expecting large dividend increases in the near future, but the 6,07% dividend yield makes up for that. ITs prt of my DGI strategy of mixing up high yielders with low growth and low yielders with high growth,

Yes there actually is more, so here is what I bought next: On 06/06 I initiated a position in Consolidated Edison. I bought 8 shares @ $72,82.

	Consolidated Edison
P/E (<20)	14,45
Yield (>2%)	3,92%
Payout Ratio (<75%)	67,1%
Increases (>= 5 year)	Aristocrat: 43 years
5-year DGR (>5%)	2,7%
EPS (>0)	$5,04
Valuation (<=10% > 52wk low)	2,33%

And then I still wasn’t finished buying as PPL dropped in price I was able to snag an additional share @ $25,80 lowering my costbase a fraction. 🙂

So with these buys I made some nice progress on my forward income:

8 shares ED provides me with a yearly dividend of $22,88 -15% Taxes) = $19,45.
23 shares PPL provides me with a yearly dividend of $37,72 – 15% (taxes) = $32,06.

Together with my last buy and another 0,2% dividend increase from Realty Income Coporation (O) this makes my new forward income a grand total of $396,74!

 

 

May 2018 Dividend Report

And we’re in June! Is it just me or is this year going faster and faster by the minute? I’m still really excited with my personal record of last month and the fact that I could do an extra-large buy adding even more fuel to my FIRE 🙂

So ladies and gentleman of the jury, I present you my May results! No less then 6 different companies payed me last month:

Date	Ticker	Shares	Amount (€)
01/05/2018	GIS	10	3,46
01/05/2018	T	31	7,45
15/05/2018	OHI	13	6,15
16/05/2018	HRL	10	1,35
16/05/2018	O	23	3,62
16/05/2018	PG	8	4,11
			€26,14

Yes my preciousssssss………another personal record (two times in a row)!

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My year to date graph looks like this:

This brings me that much closer to my 2018 goal:

Still on track for the 2018 goals!

Total dividend YTD: €92,54
Total dividend received ever: €181,33

And now….the big moment, my third YoY-comparison!

May 2017: €12,23
May 2018: €26,14

Thats another amazing increase of 113,74% compared to last year! 

How about you my dear readers / fellow bloggers, how was your May?

Crypto-holdings update

As some of you know I experimented a bit in cryptocurrency last year. Although I didn’t post anymore about it, I actually did some moves in this space so I thought that I’d give you all an update on this speculation.

Originally I bought Ripple coins (XRP) for the amount of €500,-. or 2641 coins at a price of €0,189. The idea at first was to hodl for the long term and see a steady rise in profit hopefully enough to pay for my mortgage 🙂

The reality was somewhat different though. After my initial purchase there indeed was a steady growth in the XRP price. As it grew I began to feel some pressure to sell it, so after a small rise I sold all my coins when the price hit €0,22. Realising a total profit of €81.08. NICE!

Since the price dropped again I decided to use my original €500,- and rebought XRP again at a price of €0.18500. The price dipped even further so I used my realised gains to buy additional XRP.

After it continued to rise in price I made some subsequent gains by selling batches of 100 coins at a time. After a few buys I decided it was time to branch out to other coins and to invest another €300,-.

Then the price of XRP rose to its peak above the $3:

Other coins continued to soar as well and eventually my investment of €800,- grew to a stellar €4165,29. Amazing unrealised gains & profits, it grew bigger then I dared hope when I first invested in this new technology.

Your probably wondering, dude did you sell at this high?!? Alas, my answer is no. In my infinite wisdom I decided that if it could grow to $3+, it could also go to $10 right?

Well apparantly so far the answer is no. After this great rally, all coins,including XRP made a nosedive and returned to lower values.

Long story short I now have a small portfolio consisting of Ripple (XRP), Stellar Lumens (XLM), Tron (TRX), EOS, and Electroneum (ETN).

The average value of this portfolio is between €1200 – €1600 euro although it crossed €2000 again three weeks ago and went down again after that. At the time of writing the value is €1264,73.

So far so good with a healthy €450,- profit in about 9 months time, but boy what a ride it has been and continues to be. It’s definitely not for the faint of heart, that’s for sure!

Got any experiences of your own? Please share in the comments!