September 2017 Dividends

Company	Symbol	Held In	Dividend	Amount Received	September Notes
Archer Daniels Midland	ADM	IRA	0.320	$                       32.00
Archer Daniels Midland	ADM	Taxable	0.320	$                         2.16
BHP Billiton Ltd	BHP	Taxable	0.860	$                         1.72	7.5% increase
BHP Billiton PLC	BBL	Taxable	0.860	$                         1.72	7.5% increase
Brinker Intl	EAT	IRA	0.380	$                         8.36	11.8% increase
Chevron	CVX	Taxable	1.080	$                         2.16
Emerson Electric	EMR	IRA	0.480	$                       24.00
Exxon Mobil	XOM	IRA	0.770	$                       85.47
Exxon Mobil	XOM	Taxable	0.770	$                         1.54
Flowers Food	FLO	IRA	0.170	$                         5.44
Helmerich Payne Inc	HP	Taxable	0.700	$                         0.70
Intel	INTC	Taxable	0.273	$                         0.82
International Business Machines	IBM	IRA	1.500	$                         6.00
International Business Machines	IBM	IRA	1.500	$                         6.00
International Business Machines	IBM	Taxable	1.500	$                         7.50
Johnson and Johnson	JNJ	IRA	0.840	$                       42.00
McDonalds	MCD	IRA	0.940	$                       23.50
McDonalds	MCD	Taxable	0.940	$                         0.94
Mercury General Corp	MCY	IRA	0.623	$                       31.13
Microsoft	MSFT	IRA	0.390	$                         9.75
Nu Skin Enterprise	NUS	Taxable	0.360	$                         0.36
Old Republic	ORI	IRA	0.190	$                       74.67
Old Republic	ORI	Taxable	0.190	$                         0.76
Qualcomm	QCOM	IRA	0.570	$                       10.26
T Rowe Group	TROW	IRA	0.570	$                         8.55
T Rowe Group	TROW	Taxable	0.570	$                         0.57
Target	TGT	IRA	0.620	$                       31.00	3.33% increase
Unilever	UL	IRA	0.414	$                         2.48	8.1% increase
Universal Health Realty REIT	UHT	IRA	0.660	$                       16.50
VF Corp	VFC	IRA	0.420	$                         0.42
VF Corp	VFC	IRA	0.420	$                         4.62
Walmart	WMT	Taxable	0.510	$                         7.65
Whitestone REIT	WSR	IRA	0.095	$                         9.50
WisdomTree Japan REIT	DXJR	IRA	0.025	$                         7.90

Last month was my best month on record with a total of $468 in dividends between my retirement (non 401k) and taxable accounts.  I am overall happy with the dividends paid and increases so far this year. 

This includes 4 increases this month with Target (TGT) being the lowest at 3.33%.  It is still above inflation and the stock is still attractively priced.  Look at Brinker (EAT), the stock is priced right and they bumped their dividend by 12%.  While I have some capital losses this year regarding them I don't plan on selling unless the dividend is cut.  In fact I wish I had more capital to invest in them.

YOY for this month I saw a 33% increase in dividends.  Some of it from purchases but most from excellent dividend growth stocks that keep paying me more while I sit and type up this article.

Looking at the chart it has been 7 years since I bought my first dividend paying stock.  The biggest thing to note is that it takes more time to grow when you invest little capital.  This is mostly because the bulk of my savings goes into my 401k retirement plan each year.  Only when I switch jobs could I roll it over into an IRA and invest it the way I want it (dividend growth stocks).  I have seen other bloggers also include dividends from their 401ks so I might start including that as well

Happy dividend collecting,

Dividend Family Guy

Long on all stocks mentioned in this article.