Dividend Income - June 2014

Once a month I will be updating the dividend that I received for that month.


June 2014 Dividends Received:

Realty Income Corp. (O) - $4.01

American Rlty Cap. PPTYS (ARCP) - $19.25

McDonald Corp (MCD) - $9.72

Chevron Corp (CVX) - $21.40

International Business Machines (IBM) - $6.60

Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM) - $8.97

Aflac Inc. (AFL) -$9.25

BP plc (BP) - $31.59

Target Corp (TGT) - $8.60

Ensco (ESV) - $33.75

Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) - $7.68

Total dividends for the month of June: $160.82

My goal this year is to receive $2000 in dividends. I am 34% done with that goal. 

You can check out the dividend progress Here.

Had a good month?

Trade - Buy

I added a new company to my portfolio. I purchased shares of Deere & Company (DE)

13 shares @ $91.48 on 6-6-2014

Sorry for taking so long to update this buy. I been really busy. I just wanted to get this quick update posted.

Thanks everyone for reading my blog.

FRIP Purchase

I added more shares to my position of Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI).

1 Share @ $33.72 on 6-2-2014


This increases my forward 12-month dividend income by $1.68 to a total of $1,568.88


I also updated my portfolio page to reflect the change.

Dividend Income - May 2014

Once a month I will be updating the dividend that I received for that month.


May 2014 Dividends Received:

Realty Income Corp. (O) - $4.01

American Rlty Cap. PPTYS (ARCP) - $10.83

Clorox Company (CLX) - $10.65

Kinder Morgan Inc (KMI) - $45.78

Procter & Gamble Company (PG) - $9.65

Caterpillar Inc (CAT) - $8.40

Total dividends for the month of May: $89.32

One of my many Goals is to receive $2,000 in dividends for this year.

I am 26% complete in reaching my goal. I hope you guys continue to follow my blog and cheer me on to hit is goal of mine. 

All of the income that I'm receiving from dividends are all being reinvested. I'm currently reinvesting it all into KMI.

Also, don't forget to check out my Dividend Income page which shows the total income by month.

Was May a good month for you?

FRIP Purchase

I added more shares to my position of Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI).

1 Share @ $33.31 on 4-19-2014


This increases my forward 12-month dividend income by $1.68 to a total of $1,567.20


I also updated my portfolio page to reflect the change.

FRIP Purchase

I added more shares to my position of Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI).

1 Share @ $33.41 on 4-15-2014


This increases my forward 12-month dividend income by $1.68 to a total of $1,565.52

I also updated my portfolio page to reflect the change.

Trade - Buy

I added more shares to my position to American Realty Capital Properties (ARCP)

101 shares @ 12.77 on 5-9-2014


This will increase my forward 12-months dividend by $100.60 to a total of $1552.04

I updated my Portfolio to reflect the change.

I brought theses shares just in time. That same day ARCP had a 2% pop. Today it is up 1.73% as of this writing, so yes I brought it just in time.



This graph shows Funds From Operations (FFO). When looking at REITs, EPS is not what we look at. What needs to be looked at is FFO. As we can see here ARCP is very much undervalue base on FFO.

This shows that in 5 years there will be about a 61.1% return.

This shows that my $3,000 that I currently have invested will be worth $13k in 10 years.

Here is a good read on ARCP: Why does Mr. Market fear American Realty Capital Properties

What do you think of ARCP?