Emerson (EMR): $3
Northrop Grumman (NOC): $7 (Roth)
WisdomTree Midcap Dividend Fund (DON): $3
Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (VYM): $7 (Roth)
Unilever (UL): $3
Exxon Mobil (XOM): $7 (Roth)
PepsiCo (PEP): $3
Blackrock (BLK): $7 (Roth)
McCormick (MKC): $3
iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF (DGRO): $7 (Roth)
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New year, new dividend post! Let's see how the new year started off.
Paramount Global (PARA): $0.53
Hewlett Packard (HPQ): $0.31
WisdomTree Midcap Dividend Fund (DON): $0.08
Kimberly Clark (KMB): $1.30
Iron Mountain (IRM): $4.21
PepsiCo (PEP): $5.93 ($2.13 taxable/$3.80 IRA)
Nasdaq 100 Covered Call ETF (QYLD): $0.49
AGNC: $1.54
Realty Income (O): $9.46 ($7.15 taxable/$2.31 IRA)
Main Street (MAIN): $0.52
Leggett & Platt (LEG): $2.51
Franklin Resources (BEN): $3.62
Stag Industrial (STAG): $0.13
Gold Hedged Bond ETF (GLDB): $0.06
Best Buy (BBY): $13.84
Invesco High Dividend Low Volatility ETF (SPHD): $0.17
Armanino Foods of Distinction (AMNF): $0.66
Campbell's (CPB): $4.11 ($0.41 taxable/$3.70 IRA)
Baird Aggregate Bond Fund: $4.16
The taxable sub-total comes to $39.66. Retirement accounts pulled in $13.97. That brings the total to $53.63.
Interest clocked in at $7.27.
I went a little off the beaten path this month. The automatic recurring buys continued (even added a couple).
There were, of course, the Robinhood buys, that you can read about here, here, here, and here.
I also added single shares of Realty Income, the Inverse Cramer ETF (SJIM), the Unusual Whales Subversive Republican Trading ETF (KRUZ), the Unusual Whales Subversive Democratic Trading ETF (NANC).
It's pretty well established that politicians have a knack for the stock market, so when I saw that these two ETF's existed, I had to try them out. I was also intrigued by the "inverse cramer" ETF. There's a running joke that whenever TV host Jim Cramer recommends a stock, the price soon plummets and vice-versa. As such, a general quasi-facetious "rule of thumb" is to do the opposite of whatever he says if you want to be successful in the stock market. This ETF takes that concept and runs with it. Will it pan out? Not sure. These are dividend payers, but they only pay in December, so I'm not too incentivized to keep building them, but they will be interesting to watch, no doubt.
I also added 7 shares of Bank of America (BAC) and 5 shares of Cheesecake Factory (CAKE). These were done in my non-Robinhood IRA's. There's no DRIP option there and with them charging per-trade fees, it seemed best to let the dividend cash build up and make this an annual event. My original plan was to do it in December to accompany the big dividends, but January is always such a letdown, so I decided to hold off and use it as a way to not only keep the momentum going, but to give the new year a little boost. I think it achieved the desired result and this was just year one, wait until we're five or ten years down the line. That's gonna be fun.
Until then, though, we press on. It wasn't a mind-blowing start as far as dividends go, but moves were made. I said on Twitter that this was going to be more of a "setup 2025" year and I think that this did a decent job of getting started on that overall goal.
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