Sharebuilder DRIP Purchases

Market continues to rise as we approach 14,000.

Today was another up day with a 72 point gain to close at 13,954.

Today's purchases:

• $250 of TEVA at $37.48. Yield 2.14%. 

• $250 of INTC at $21.05. Yield 4.28%.

• $100 of PM at $89.06. Yield 3.82%.  

• $100 of EXC at $31.25. Yield 6.72%

 Total purchases of $700 adding $26.59 to my annual dividend income.

Buy: AAPL

Apple has fallen like a rock since hitting it's all time high of  $705 back in September. Over the past 2 days, it has dropped  an additional 12% on concerns of slowing earnings growth. I decided to take advantage and initiate a somewhat speculative (for me) position.

Purchased 11 shares at $438.50 for an initial yield of 2.42%.
  
I believe Apple shares have disconnected from the fundamentals and see a lot of opportunity from a dividend growth perspective.
-PE of 10.
-$137 billion of cash and investments.
-CEO indicated that Apple would return $45 billion to shareholders over the next three years.

Apple is outside of the companies I typically own, but I do think that the shares have been beaten down a bit too much and represents good value at these levels.  Growth is slowing but they still makes good products that people want to buy, is one of the premier companies in the world, and makes a $hitload of cash.  If it drops more, I would consider averaging down but would not let it exceed 5% of my portfolio. 

This purchase adds $116.60 to my annual dividend income.

Sharebuilder DRIP Purchases

Market just keeps going up and up.  Today was another positive day and closed up 62 points to finish at 13,712.

Today's purchases were a repeat of last week.

• $250 of TEVA at $37.84. Yield 2.12%. 

• $200 of GE at $21.95. Yield 3.46%.

 Total purchases of $450 adding $12.23 to my annual dividend income.

I will continue to nibble as I wait for a pullback.

Sharebuilder DRIP Purchases

Market was up 27 points to close at 13,535.  Made just 2 buys today:

• $250 of TEVA at $38.07. Yield 2.11%. 

• $200 of GE at $21.15. Yield 3.59%.

 Total purchases of $450 adding $12.47 to my annual dividend income.

2013 Goals

I can finally close the book on 2012 and it was a successful year.

I had 2 financial goals for 2012:

1) End the year at $8400 in go forward annualized dividend income. 
     -Check..  I finished the year at $8967. 

Looking back, here is the progress:
2009 $770
2010 $2932
2011 $6048
2012 $8967

2) $8000 in total passive income received (dividend income plus interest income).
     -Check..  My final total was $8624.  $7210 in dividend income and $1414
       in interest income.

I have been tracking this a little longer:
2007 $1654 ($602 div, $1053 int)
2008 $1325 ($970 div, $355 int)
2009 $1122 ($1011 div, $111 int)
2010 $2262 ($1597 div, $665 int)
2011 $5173 ($4023 div, $1150 int)
2012 $8624 ($7210 div, $1414 int)

Looking to 2013, I will continue build upon my personal financial mission statement that I defined in late 2009. My goal is to acquire income producing assets.

Goal 1: End the year at $12,000 in go forward annualized dividend income.

Goal 2: Collect $12,000 in total passive income. 



Happy New Year and prosperous and healthy 2013!

Sharebuilder DRIP Purchases

My weekly buys went through on 1/2 (Dow 13,412- huge up day of 308 points as last minute deal averted us from going over the fiscal cliff) and today (Dow 13,329).   I didn't put too much capital to work... waiting for a pullback. 

1/2 Purchases:

• $250 of PM at $85.41. Yield 3.98%.

• $200 of MO at $32.06. Yield 5.49%.   

• $200 of MCD at $89.74. Yield 3.43%.  

Total purchases of $650 and added $27.79 to my annual dividend income.


Today's Purchase:

• $200 of PM at $86.11. Yield 3.95%. 

+ $7.90 in annual dividend income.

December 2012 Dividend Income Update

Dividends Received

Good way to end 2012 as I closed the year with my largest month ever as I broke the $1000 mark. With that said, 2 of my holdings (PAYX and CAT) bumped up their 2013 divided payments (PAYX 2 quarters of payments, CAT 1 quarter, FAF 1 quarter) which accounted for  reaching this milestone.  Total dividends received during the month were $1,078.92:

• EXC $149.92
• RDS.B $138.43
• LMT $113.32
• JNJ $103.82
• PAYX $91.70
• INTC $77.82
• FAF$63.86
• BDX $65.31
• AFL $59.18
• MCD $56.29
• CVX $51.07
• TEVA $43.47
• EMR $29.63
• GS $15.43
• CAT $12.46
• RDS.A  $5.43
• FTR $1.78

Purchases

This months purchases:

• $2006 of TEVA at $37.78. Yield 2.08%
• $650 of INTC at $20.33. Yield 4.43%.
• $400 of RDS.B at $69.74. Yield 4.93%.
• $400 of KMI at $34.19. Yield 4.21%.
• $250 of MCD at $86.40. Yield 3.56%.
• $250 of PM at $83.29. Yield 4.08%.
• $200 of EXC at $30.05. Yield 6.99%

Also reinvested all dividends.
 
$5,166 in total new capital added (including reinvested dividends) with initial yield of 3.57%. 

Dividend Increases

• GE 11.8% raise. +$67.98 annual income.

All together, annualized dividend income increased by $270 from last months total of $8,697 to $8,967. This means my dividend stocks will pay $8,967 in dividends over the next 12 months.