Category: Dividend Income

Here is my dividend income for January, 2012.

The total was $188.68. The total for the same stocks 3 months ago (October, 2011) was $208.90. As I mentioned in my previous dividend income update, Coca-Cola (KO) is on a weird dividend schedule. They paid a dividend in October, 2011, and their next dividend payment was in December, 2011. The total for October, 2011 without KO was $165.13. So I think it is fair to say my dividend income is going up.

Here are the totals:

• Automatic Data Processing: $21.64
• MDU Resources Group Inc: $8.71
• Kimberly-Clark: $36.20
• Chubb Corp: $8.11
• Illinois Tool Works: $18.33
• Altria Group: $22.12
• Family Dollar Stores Inc: $4.77
• Piedmont Natural Gas Inc: $15.10
• Valspar Corp: $11.24
• Cincinnati Financial Corp: $17.20
• Sysco Corp: $13.98
• RPM International Inc: $11.28

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It is time to post my December, 2011 dividend income.

There are a few more stats for this month than usual.

Coca-Cola pays dividends in April, July, October and December. Other companies that pay dividends in April, July and October pay their other dividend of the year in January. For some reason Coca-Cola pushes that dividend forward one month. I thought they just did it last year because there was a chance the dividend tax rate could change. But paying one of them early seems to be the routine.

Another change is that RLI paid a regular quarterly dividend of 30 cents and a special dividend of $5.00. This is the second year in a row that they have paid a special dividend.

In September, 2011 my dividend income was $243.26. Without Coca-Cola or the special RLI dividend, my December, 2011 dividend income was $248.26. With the Coca-Cola dividend, my December income was $272.30. With both the Coca-Cola and special RLI dividends, my December, 2011 income was $514.94.

• AFLAC Inc: $16.87
• American States Water: $14.44
• Black Hills Corp: $11.63
• Bemis Co Inc: $14.73
• Intel: $9.83
• Vectren Corp: $18.19
• Archer-Daniels-Midland: $10.74
• Emerson Electric Co: $8.27
• Sonoco Products: $18.00
• Exxon Mobil: $26.34
• Chevron: $16.90
• 3M Co: $6.81
• Questar Corp: $8.20
• Walgreen Co: $12.15
• Johnson & Johnson: $17.87
• Dover Corp: $6.78
• Consolidated Edison: $15.95
• Coca-Cola Co: $24.04
• RLI Corp: $14.56
• RLI Corp: $242.64

 

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Here is my dividend income for November, 2011. The total for the month is $246.37. The income for three months prior was $322.35. It went down because in August I got a dividend from Vodafone, which pays semi-annual dividends, and not quarterly dividends like US stocks do. I also sold Universal Corporation in the interim. Some of the remaining stocks increased their dividend, and none of them cut their dividend.

 

• AT&T: $23.15
• WGL Holdings Inc: $11.53
• Lowe’s Cos Inc: $7.14
• ABM Industries Inc: $7.25
• Air Products & Chemicals Inc: $8.43
• Clorox Co: $30.80
• Pentair Inc: $11.25
• Abbott Laboratories: $25.21
• Colgate-Palmolive: $29.68
• Hormel Foods Corp: $5.77
• Northwest Natural: $23.19
• Procter & Gamble: $27.77
• Caterpillar: $9.44
• Texas Instruments: $8.64
• Eaton Corporation: $17.12

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Joining the bandwagon for the second month in a row, I am posting my dividend income for October, 2011.

The total was $208.90, for a year-to-date total of $2,330.68. The monthly total was less than last month, but that is okay since it is a different set of stocks. It is still higher than the total from three months prior with the same stocks. This is partially since at the time I was still having the dividends re-invested, but now I am letting the dividends go to cash. It is partially due to the fact that a few of the stocks increased their dividends.

• Automatic Data Processing : $19.73
• Coca-Cola Co : $24.04
• MDU Resources Group Inc.: $8.45
• Kimberly-Clark: $36.20
• Chubb Corp: $8.11
• Altria Group: $22.12
• Illinois Tool Works: $18.33
• Family Dollar Stores Inc: $4.77
• Piedmont Natural Gas Inc: $15.10
• Valspar Corp: $10.11
• Cincinnati Financial Corp: $17.20
• Sysco Corp: $13.46
• RPM International: $11.28

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I read quite a few dividend investing blogs. A lot of them post the income they get from dividends every month. I have decided to do this as well. I will list them in the order that I got them.

The grand total for the month is $243.26. The YTD total is $2121.78. All I need to do is increase my assets to ten times their current size and I will be all set.

• Aflac: $15.33
• American States Water: $14.44
• Black Hills Corp: $11.63
• Bemis Corp: $14.73
• Intel: $9.83
• Vectren Corp: $17.93
• Archer-Daniels-Midland: $9.82
• Emerson Electric: $7.13
• Sonoco Products: $18.00
• Exxon-Mobil: $26.34
• Chevron: $16.27
• 3M Corp: $6.81
• Questar: $7.69
• Walgreen: $12.15
• Johnson and Johnson: $17.87
• Dover Corp: $6.78
• Consolidated Edison: $15.95
• RLI Corp: $14.56

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