Doorgaan naar hoofdcontent

2017 investment goals

2017 is already a few days old and sadly, I've been back to work for a few days as well. So is more then time to share my investment goals for this year.

€400 of dividend income
My current forward dividend is €273 and last year I raked in €114. Adding these two together should give me a nice aim for this year.

Add at least 4 companies to my portfolio...
I now own shares of 5 companies, KO,RDSA, UNA, OHI and WSR. Four extra companies should be a doable. I will be looking at a mix of more defensive shares and some a bit more cyclical. I already set a small order to buy a new company this week.

... of which at least one European company
Not only do I want to spread risks between different kinds of companies I also want to spread between currencies. So I will not only buy US stock but also Euro stocks.

Raise investments to €11.000
I now have invested about €6.000. I will not be investing more than last year, because I want to pay off a big part (10%) of my mortgage this year. Of course, dividends received will be reinvested.

€500 forward dividend income
I should be able to finish the year with a forward dividend income of €500. However, I will not be buying high yielding shares just to meet that mark if I don't think the company will be able to keep dividend (growth) in the near future.

How are your goals for 2017?

Reacties

Een reactie posten

Populaire posts van deze blog

Dividend Update

It's been quiet here on the blog for a while now. Nothing's wrong but I was very busy at work and at home and didn't feel the energy to write some blogs. But now that everything is calming down a bit, it is time to pick up where I left off. I've been investing a bit in the last month. I bought 10 extra UNA shares and also 11 shares of OHI. Both when they were dipping after their reported Q3 results. Also I started investing in a new Mutual fund, which invests mainly in bonds. In total I invested just short of 900 Euros for an expected anual dividend increase of €33. I also collected dividends in september and october. In september I received €58.82 an increase of 270% compared to last year. In november I received €15.58, an increase of 80% compared to last year.

May 17: Dividend income

June has already started so it is time to report my dividend income in May. May was a better month than February, but it could have been even better. Because the dollar took a hit compared to the Euro, my income in Euro's suffered a bit. I received dividend from the follwing companies: Whitestone REIT (WSR): €5.39 Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI): €19,31 Texas Instruments (TXN): €1,53 Abbvie (ABBV): €1,47 Kempen Global High Dividend Mutual Fund: €4,86 (DRIP) Total net dividend income was €32,56, breaking the €100 YTD and almost equalling the total dividend income of 2016. I cannot compare this month's income with last year, because last year I didn't receive any dividends. How was your May dividend income? I will updat my dividend income page soon..

New position AD

Yesterday I initiated a new postion. I bought 10 shares of Ahold Delhaize (AMS: AD). AD is company that was formed by the merger of Ahold from The Netherlands and Delhaize from Belgium. Ahold constists of their flagship Albert Heijn the market leader in supermarkets in The Neterlands, the largest liquor store chain Gall&Gall and the reason why Amazon doesn't have a big market share in Holland, bol.com . Most of these brands are also known in Belgium, but the main brand for Belgium is Delhaize. Aold Delhaize is also active in the United States with brands like: Foodlion Stop&Shop bfresh and many more.They are also active in Asia. I was eyeing for AD a little while but found them a bit expensive at a share price of €20 but since the announced takeover of Wholefoods by Amazon the share prices has taken a hit and closed at €16.04 yesterday. So it was now well within the price I was willing to pay for it. I bought 10 shares of AD at a share price of €16.30