Recent buys

I have not posted in a while but I have been busy growing my dividend income.

Have continuously been adding to my positions every 2 weeks through Sharebuilder.

Outside Sharebuilder, made 2 buys in December.

On Dec 15, picked up 100 shares of KMI at $28.66. This buy represents an initial yield of 4.19% and will pay me $130 in dividends over the next 12 months.

On Dec 16, picked up 44 shares of BDX at $70.62. This represents an initial yield of 2.55% and will pay me $79.20 in dividends over the next 12 months.

When all is said and done, my annualized dividend income will increase around $400 for December.

My Sharebuilder buys go through tommorrow.

Rally

Market has been red hot over the past 2 weeks. The rally took a day off today and was down about 41 points to close at 11,478.

I have been using Sharebuilder over the past year to DCA into building my positions.

My Sharebuilder orders executed on Tuesday and picked up:

• $250 of AFL at $39.04. Yield 3.07%.

• $250 of ABT at $52.62.  Yield 3.65%

• $150 of MO at $27.59. Yield 5.94%.

• $200 of KMR at $61.21. Yield 7.52%.

• $200 of LMT at $75.97. Yield 5.27%.

• $250 of BDX at $74.2. Yield 2.21%.

• $250 of CVX at $97.99. Yield 3.18%.

• $150 of GE at $16.03. Yield 3.74%.

• $200 of PAYX at $27.78. Yield 4.46%.

• $249 of PM at $65.60. Yield 4.70%

• $250 of PEP at $60.9. Yield 3.38%.

• $200 of PG at $64.52. Yield 3.25%.

• $200 of RDS.B at $66.66. Yield 5.04%.

• $249 of TEVA at $37.94. Yield 2.07%.

I actually did not want to make make additional purchases of CVX, RDS.B, ABT, LMT, MO, and PM. I changed my investment plan on Monday but I guess my changes didn't register with the system. I will make sure this does not happen again.

Anyways, total amount of new capital was $2948 and these purchases will add another $117.55 to my annual dividend income.

It seems as if we are in a trading range between 10,500 and 11,500.

Ugly start to the 4th quarter

Another ugly, ugly day.

Dow dropped 258 (-2.36%) points to close at 10,655. The S&P was -2.8%. Small Caps continue to take it on the chin and were -5%.

Financials led (again) the downward charge. BAC was down almost -10% to close at 2008 levels. It hit a new 52 week low to close at $5.53.

September 2011 Dividend Income Update

Dividends Received

Total dividends received during the month were $360.27:

• GS $10.60

• JNJ $81.60 

• CVX $29.40 

• RDS.B $93.13 

• RDS.A $1.21 

• FTR $3.00 

• BDX $9.08 

• LMT $64.59

• EXC $24.72 

• PEP $42.89 

Purchases

This months purchases (includes reinvested dividends):

• $299 of ABT at $50.96. Yield 3.77%.

• $1500.90 of AFL at $34.33. Yield 3.50%.

• $458.08 of BDX at $76.51. Yield 2.14%.

• $2154.99 of CLGX at $9.07. Yield 0%.

• $278.40 of CVX at $94.61. Yield 3.30%.

• $24.72 of  EXC at $42.94. Yield 4.89%.

• $399 of GE at $15.55. Yield 3.86%.

• $10.60 of GS at $99.49. Yield 1.41%.

• $52.32 of JNJ at $63.59. Yield 3.59%.

• $424 of KMR at $59.14. Yield 7.78%.

• $397.34 of LMT at $73.90. Yield 4.81%.

• $149 of MO at $26.61. Yield 6.16%.

• $374 of PAYX at $26.75. Yield 4.63%.

• $541.89 of PEP at $61.59. Yield 3.34%.

• $3556.50 of PM at $62.97. Yield 4.85%.

• $400.13 of RDS.B at $64.77. Yield 5.19%.

• $349 of PG at $62.65. Yield 3.35%.

• $499 of TEVA at $37.15. Yield 2.11%.

• $250 of AFL at $39.04. Yield 3.07%.  

$11,870.08 in total new capital added with initial yield of 3.49%. 

Dividend increases:

• VZ 2.6% raise. +$3.76

• PM 20% raise. +$45.06

• LMT 33% raise. +$88.51

All together, annualized dividend income increased by $551 from last months total of $4700 to $5251. This means my dividend stocks will pay $5251 in dividends over the next 12 months. This portfolio of stocks has a current yield of 3.46%.

My 2011 goal was $5500 and I should easily surpass this.

End of a terrible quarter and a buy

Dow dropped 240 points to end the 3rd quarter to close at 10,913.

Worst quarter since the dark days at the end of 2008.

For the quarter, the Dow dropped 1,501 points (12.1%) and the S&P dropped 14.3%.

All is not negative though. At the very end of the day, I picked up 50 shares of PM at $62.65. I have been waiting for a drop in PM over the past 6 months.

This buy represents an initial yield of 4.92% and will pay me $154 in dividends over the next 12 months.

If PM drops from here (I am hoping it does), I will buy on the way down.

Terrible week but finally some good news

Worst week in the market in 3 years ended on a bit of a high note.

Market had first winning day this week gaining 38 points to close at 10,771 but the real good news was delivered by Lockheed Martin.

Lockheed announced a 33% dividend increase from $.75 quarterly to $1.00.

This increase has LMT now yielding 5.55% (based on today's close of $72.09) and more importanetly will pay me an additional $88.51 over the next 12 months.

I will continue to DCA into LMT below $75.

This has been a very good month for dividend increases with LMT, VZ, and PM all increasing dividends. All told, I will receive an extra $137.32 for the next 12 months from these 3 stocks.

In other news, PM's got hammered today.

Gold was down $102 (-5.85%) to close at $1640.
Silver got punished big time and was down almost 18% (-$6.47) to close at $30.10.

I have my eye to pick up some more bullion on this dip and perhaps initiate a position in CEF. CEF was down 9% to close at $21.21.

Over the falls (again): -391 (-3.5%)

Dow dropped 391 today to close at 10,733. Dow dropped 283 yesterday. 675 points in 2 days. ouch.

TEVA keeps falling like a rock to close at $35.39 (down 3.4%).

Other notable losers:
-GS $93.98 (down almost 4%)
-BAC $6.06 (down 5%)
-BHP $67.28 (down 6.5%)

Nothing was safe today and commodities got hammered:
-Gold $1733 (down 4%)
-Silver $36.58 (down 9.6%)
-Oil $80.51 (down 6.3%)

My asset allocation is very light on precious metals. I may start rebalancing and aim for 10% PM's.

-303 (-2.69%)

Volatility continues as Dow dropped another 300 points to close at 10,992.

Pulled trigger on AFL and established small position of 30 shares at $34.22 with initial yield of 3.51% and will pay $36 worth of dividends over the next 12 months.

- 420

Another sell off. Dow closed at 10,990.

Mortgage interest rates at 50 year low: 30 year fixed at 4.15%.

"Experts" are saying we are on the cusp of another recession. I don't think we ever got out of the last recession.

AFL @ $35.36
GE is testing $15 again. Closed at $15.34.
INTC @ $19.77. Yielding 4.25%.

+423 (3.95%)

The roller coaster continues.

Dow closed at 11,143.

The S&P was up 4.6%.

-520 points (-4.6%)

It literally is 2008 all over again.

DOW closed down 4.6% at 10,720.

I think we are oversold. Yields are getting juicy.

MDT @ $30.41. 3.2%
LMT @ $66.87. 4.5%
INTC @ $19.93. 4.21%

+430 (3.98%)

I knew it would happen. Big rebound day in the market after fed says they will keep rates at 0 for the next 2 years. Wild day as market was down over 150 late in the afternoon an d rallied 600 plus points to close at 12,240.

The talking heads are putting chance of double dip recession 50/50.

Personally I hope for a training range in the 11,000-11,500 range so I can continue to accumulate positions.

Buys today:
ABT $150@ $47.68 (4.03%)
MO $150@ $24.44 (6.22%)
EXC $200@ $40.00 (5.25%)
GE $250@ $15.35 (3.91%)
JNJ $150@ $61.16 (3.73%)
KMR $350@ $57.25 (8.03%)
LMT $250@ $68.95 (4.35%)
PAYX $200@ $26.18 (4.74%)
PEP $150@ $62.26 (3.31%)
PG $200@ $59.91 (3.51%)
RDS.B $250@ $62.30 (5.39%)
TEVA $350@ $38.72 (2.07%)

These purchases will pay $120.43 worth of dividends over the next 12 months.

2008 all over again -634.45 (-5.54%)

It's 2008 all over again. S&P downgrades US Govt debt from AAA to AA and market responds w/ 635 (5.5%)drop to close at 10,810 and S&P drops 6.9%. Russell 2000 index drops 8.9%.

NASDAQ down 12.4% over the last 3 days.

Ugly.

CLGX down almost 50% over the past month and over 42% over the last 5 days!

BAC down 20% to close at $6.51.

Buys today:
TEVA $1030@ $38.14 (2.1%).

This purchase will pay $21.59 in dividends over the next 12 months.