Monday, June 1, 2020

May 2020 Dividend Income: My IRA is Maximum

You can ride to 'em, bounce to 'em, and freak to 'em.  That's right, it's time for the dividends.  Let's get it on.

AT&T (T): $1.64   Up $0.55 from last quarter due to DRIP  and a purchase. YoY is up $0.60

AGNC: $0.13  Down $0.04 from last quarter and $0.05 from last year due to a dividend cut.  With the pandemic, these are becoming far too common.  Thankfully, this is a small position, so the damage isn't too great.

Sprague Resources (SRLP): $8.51  Up $0.46 from last quarter due to DRIP and up $4.93 from last year.  I am legitimately shocked that this dividend has held up the way that it has. Fingers crossed, it can keep things copasetic.

Hormel (HRL): $0.71  Same as last quarter and up $0.29 from last year due to DRIP and a purchase

Kinder Morgan (KMI): $1.09  Up $0.07 from last quater due to DRIP and a dividend increase.

Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI): $2.23  Up $0.04 from last quarter due to DRIP and $0.18 from last year

Realty Income (O): $0.97  Same as last month and up $0.24 from last quarter due to a purchase. YoY is up $0.28

Tanger Factory Outlet Centers (SKT): $1.53  Up $0.05 from last quarter due to DRIP and a dividend increase.

Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC): $0.01  Ow.  That's down $0.15 from last quarter.  Another tiny position, but percentage wise, that one was still pretty brutal.

Paychex (PAYX): $1.30  Up a penny from last quarter and up $0.04 from last year.

Westrock (WRK): $0.82  Down $0.62 from last quarter due to a dividend cut.  This one surprised me, to be honest.  A lot of the stuff that gets shipped to our store comes in Westrock boxes, so I figured that they were chugging along fine, even amid all the COVID chaos.  Maybe it's a precautionary measure for possible rocky times ahead?  I don't know.

Publix threw in a whopping $9.18 outside the 401K.  That's a huge spike due to an employee perk and a dividend increase.

That brings the non 401K dividend total to $28.12, up $5.53 from last quarter.

Speaking of the 401K, Publix threw in another $2.19 in there as well, up $0.72 from last quarter.  Another fund threw in $0.82, giving us a total of $3.01 for the retirement account.

The grand total comes to $31.13, new record and a milestone.  Noice.

Interest clocked in at $3.26  Up $0.09 from last month.


I did make some small additions to the portfolio.  I added another share of Tanger (SKT) the day before they announced that they were suspending their dividend.  It's not surprising considering that everything is closed, but it's still vexing.  I suppose I put too much stock (heh) in their status as an aristocrat.  Then again, as we saw, they did increase their dividend this year. If they reinstate it before year's end does the streak keep going or does the suspension break it either way?  I have no clue.

The second purchase was a share of Proctor and Gamble (PG).  The portfolio has been updated accordingly.

The real move this month was maxing out my IRA contribution....for 2019.  Harder than it sounds, and both the employment impact payment and the extended tax deadline proved incredibly useful, but I got it done.  I haven't even started on 2020 yet.  I like the idea of going into 2021 without having to make catch up contributions, but I don't know how realistic a goal that is.   We'll see how things play out, though.

All in all, this was a solid month.  The forward income did take some whacks, and there will be more to come, I'm sure, but things are chugging along quite nicely so far.  Whether the second half of 2020 starts to simmer down or whether the madness continues remains to be seen.  It should be interesting, though, to say the least.





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