Schwab US Dividend Equity Fund ETF (SCHD): $2
Target (TGT): $2
Vanguard Total Market ETF (VTI): $2
Chevron (CVX): $2
Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO): $2
Lockheed Martin (LMT): $2
Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (VIG): $2
Exxon Mobil (XOM): $2
NextEra Energy (NEE): $2
Main Street Capital (MAIN): $2
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Like sand through the hourglass, these are the dividends of July.
PepsiCo (PEP): $1.74 (+$0.22 QoQ, +$0.40 YoY)
SpartanNash (SPTN): $1.06 (+$0.21 QoQ)
Nasdaq 100 Covered Call ETF (QYLD): $0.39 (+$0.29 QoQ, +$0.36 YoY)
Wisdom Tree (DON): $0.09 (+$0.06 QoQ, +$0.08 YoY)
Main Street Capital (MAIN): $0.14 (+$0.09 QoQ, +$0.12 YoY)
Dominos (DPZ): $0.08 (+$0.06 YoY)
Invesco High Dividend Low Volatility ETF (SPHD): $0.20 (+$0.05 QoQ)
Coca Cola (KO): $1.42 (+$0.49 QoQ, +$0.57 YoY)
Paramount Global (PARA): $1.22 (+$0.01 QoQ)
Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO): $1.77
Kimberly Clark (KMB): $1.21 (+$0.01 QoQ, +$0.06 YoY)
Iron Mountain (IRM): $3.73 (+$0.04 QoQ, +$0.19 YoY)
HP (HPQ): $0.09 (+$0.01 QoQ)
AGNC: $1.24 (+$0.65 QoQ, +$0.91 YoY)
GlobalXSuperdividend (SDIV): $0.14 (+$0.03 QoQ, +$0.10 YoY)
Realty Income (O): $1.31 (+$0.05 QoQ, +$0.22 YoY)
Stag Industrial (STAG): $0.09 (+$0.02 QoQ, +$0.07 YoY)
Franklin Resources (BEN): $2.60 (+$0.03 QoQ, +$0.18 YoY)
Leggett & Platt (LEG): $1.37 (+$0.08 QoQ, +$0.73 YoY)
Best Buy (BBY): $6.54 (+$0.07 QoQ, +$1.49 YoY)
McCormick (MKC): $0.04 (+$0.03 QoQ)
That brings the sub-total to $26.47, which is up $3.69 from last quarter, but down $7.62 from last year. That's due to Publix's dividend being off, so I can let it slide....this time.
That's just the sub-total, though. We've still got 401K dividends to cover.
DFA US Small Cap: $1.35
Baird Aggregate Bond Fund: $1.71
That sub-total comes to $3.06. Put em together and the grand total comes to $29.53. So close to the $30 threshold, but no cigar. Will happen next quarter, though.
Interest clocked in at $0.69.
In addition to the buys on Robinhood (which you can read about here, here, here, and here) I also made single share buys into Paramount Global (PARA), Wendy's (WEN), AT&T (T), and Franklin Resources (BEN).
But I didn't stop there. Nope, I also picked up 9 shares of Realty Income (O), 2 shares of Vanguard's Total Market ETF (VTI), 19 shares of Store Capital (STOR), 8 shares of Coca Cola (KO), 6 shares of Exxon Mobil (XOM), 6 shares of NextEra Energy (NEE), 10 shares of Campbell's (CPB), and 10 shares of Verizon (VZ).
So, in the middle of June, Capital One did away with their IRA savings accounts. "Custodianship" was relinquished and passed elsewhere (ie. the accounts were moved to another financial institution.) The huge perk here is that all the money that I had been slipping into those accounts the past 3 or so years that was just sitting as cash collecting interest can now be pumped into the market. This is also why the interest payment is substantially lower than it has been.
There are, however, quite a few downsides. This place is a bit of a dinosaur as it still charges per-trade commissions (hence the larger buys which stand in stark contrast to my more usual scattershot investment approach,) has no automatic dividend reinvestment option, and doesn't even have online deposits. If I want to put money in, I have to print out a form and mail them a check. It's not the best.
Hopefully, they get their act together, but in the meantime, I've got some money to play with. I've been doing about $500ish from each of the two accounts each week, so I am hanging with the big dogs for the nonce. If I maintain this pace (which I see no reason why I wouldn't,) I've got about two more months' worth of capital left, then I'll have to wait for the dividends to replenish them before I can make more moves in those accounts.
This is gonna be fun. Should also see a decent spike in the numbers going forward. It's good because there are times lately where it feels like the numbers have been stagnating. This could provide a decent jumpstart to the proceedings.
After a month like that, I of course, had to update the portfolio, which I did. You can read it here.
Kicked the second half of the year off with a pretty good bang if I do say so myself. There's still five more months to move the needle. Let's see what we can do.
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