August 2017 Dividends

I hope T-Mobile doesn't steal too many customers from Verizon and Sprint because both pay be well every quarter.  From above you can see I own stocks in multiple accounts each spitting out money into my pocket from VZ and T.
Company
Symbol
Held In
Dividend
Amount Received
August Notes
Abbvie Inc
ABBV
IRA
$0.640
$32.27

Alliance Holdings Group LP
AHGP
Taxable
$0.730
$0.73
33% Div Increase
AT&T
T
IRA
$0.490
$61.30

AT&T
T
Taxable
$0.490
$4.41

AT&T
T
Taxable
$0.490
$4.41

AT&T
T
Taxable
$0.490
$4.90

AT&T
T
Taxable
$0.490
$4.90

Bowl America Inc
BWLA
IRA
$0.155
$51.60

Caterpillar Inc
CAT
IRA
$0.780
$19.68
1.3% Div Increase
Caterpillar Inc
CAT
Taxable
$0.780
$0.79

Donegal Group Inc
DGICA
Taxable
$0.140
$0.28

Lazard
LAZ
Taxable
$0.410
$2.47

Procter & Gamble
PG
IRA
$0.690
$34.75

Procter & Gamble
PG
Taxable
$0.690
$0.69

Universal Corp
UVV
IRA
$0.540
$27.24

Verizon
VZ
IRA
$0.578
$69.90

Verizon
VZ
IRA
$0.578
$64.68

Verizon
VZ
Taxable
$0.578
$4.62

Verizon
VZ
Taxable
$0.578
$4.62

Verizon
VZ
Taxable
$0.578
$1.17

Verizon
VZ
Taxable
$0.578
$5.20

Verizon
VZ
Taxable
$0.578
$4.62

Verizon
VZ
Taxable
$0.578
$5.78


Looking back this is my best August ever with a YOY increase of 53%.  I think most of that is attributed to my redesign of my dividend growth portfolio.  August and July used to be more even and now most of my payers are in August.



What really matters is did my dividends increase (both through dividend growth and my own contributions) this year versus last.  I imagine they will as I have maxed out my IRA contributions for the year for my wife and I.  There is also my old 401k from my previous employer I need to roll over.

I vaguely remember you can only roll over one account per year.  Is that true?

As always I hope you had a good month of getting paid by the companies you are part owners of.

Cheers,

Dividend Family Guy

Comments

  1. Dividend LifeSeptember 13, 2017 at 8:38 PM

    Hi DFG,
    Glad to see the dividends growing again! Congrats on a great month.
    I sold my VZ shares so I'm just in T now and I'm not buying any more for a while as they pay too much of my dividend income (12% of my individual stock dividends).

    I would check https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/plan-participant-employee/rollovers-of-retirement-plan-and-ira-distributions carefully and perhaps ask your 401k provider about it. But it looks like plan to IRA rollovers don't count for the once a year limit.

    Hope you have a great September!

    Best wishes,
    -DL

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    1. Dividend Family GuySeptember 17, 2017 at 7:33 AM

      Thanks for the link DL. Yep direct rollover looks like what I want.
      Cheers,
      DFG

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  2. DivHutSeptember 14, 2017 at 1:32 AM

    Looks like your portfolio is doing quite well. A lot of solid names paying you and a nice year over year increase too. Not really familiar with BWLA. First time I ever seen it in any portfolio. Thanks for sharing.

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    1. Dividend Family GuySeptember 17, 2017 at 7:34 AM

      Bowling :-) Who would have thought it would pay dividends.
      DFG

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