July 2015 Dividends

As I continue to save for expected healthcare costs not much has changed in the dividend area.  My goal was to save up $5500 dollars to cover my deductible.  I did this because I am still building my HSA (Health Savings Account) up since starting my new job in June.  At this time I am about $800 shy of this goal.  At the end of August I hope to have saved enough to get back in the investing game.

 Stock
Account
Dividend
Received
Shares of Life Purchased
Notes
CRWS
IRA
0.08
 $7.94
0.1851
No change in dividend
GPC
IRA
0.615
 $89.55
0.0775
No change in dividend
UBSI
IRA
0.32
 $40.23
0.8255
No change in dividend
RSO
Taxable
0.16
 $19.25

No change in dividend
GE
Taxable
0.23
 $6.13

No change in dividend
CSAL
Taxable
0.442
 $40.62
1.7344
First dividend after WIN split
VNR
Taxable
0.118
 $0.27

No change in dividend
WIN
Taxable
0.11
 $8.46

No change in dividend
HRZN
Taxable
0.115
 $6.99

No change in dividend
AGNC
Taxable
0.2
 $5.67

No change in dividend

The only thing I should have caught was the automatic reinvestment of CSAL.  This and WIN have not been doing well since the split and while I had stopped the DRIP for WIN it was automatically enabled for CSAL.  This will be disabled as I do not want to purchase shares in companies who are not raising dividends and earnings.



Year over year it was a 21% decline in dividends.  This was do to the Windstream split to WIN and CSAL.  At this point I am still trying to determine what to do with the stocks.  I hope your month was an increase YOY and my goal is to get back to increases soon. 


Happy dividend collecting,

Comments

  1. DivHutAugust 21, 2015 at 5:16 PM

    Thanks for sharing your dividend income for July. I see we just have GE on common between our portfolios. Looking to see your adjustments going forward with WIN and CSAL to get your year over year growth back on track.

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    1. Dividend Family GuyAugust 22, 2015 at 10:01 PM

      Thanks for the feedback DivHut. I hope to get back on track and clean up my portfolio soon.
      Thanks for stopping by,
      DFG

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