Dividend Dolphin

With the money I had from the sell of ABBV I expanded on my BNS position. I bought another 4 shares. For my net dividend income the sell and buy have a small impact. I lost €8 by selling ABBV and I gained €10.60 by buying BNS. I bought BNS at $62.55 a share. With a quarterly dividend of $0.63, BNS yields 4%.

Last friday my position of Ahold Delhaize took a hit of more than 7% at one moment. I took the opportunity to expand on my position. I bought another 20 shares at a price of €15.50 each. Including transaction fees the total price of this purchase €312.06. With this purchase I tripled my position from 10 to 30 shares. With these shares my annual dividend income increases with about 9 Euros to €410. My cost basis dropped tot €15.90 per share. At current market price AD yields 3.68%, my yield on cost is now 3.58%. If you want more information about Ahold Delhaize you can read it in this post.

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...

Today Amazon (AMZN) made an impact on a lot of stocks by announcing it's buying Whole Foods (WFM). A lot of stocks such as Walmart (WMT) and Target (TGT) which I both own went down quite conserably. So I seized the opportunity to buy some more TGT shares. I bought 5, at a price of $50.23 a piece bringing the total amount of shares I own to 20. Including transaction fees I paid a total of €225.50. At this price TGT (with it's just announced   raised dividend yields 4.94%. This purchase brings the average purchase price of my TGT shares at €55.81 almost 3.5 euros lower than before. YOC are up to 3.94%. Total dividend has raised to €410 after taxes.

Yesterday I made a first purchase of this month, buying a couple of shares of Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS). As we've been having some extra unexpected expenses the amount of pocket money we have has shrunk a bit. So our first priority, as well as making extra mortgage payments, is filling our coffers again. Having said that, we were able to make this small purchase, partly from our received dividends ans a little bit of new cash. We bought 4 shares of BNS at a price of $55.30 a piece. With transaction fees the cost basis of this purchase was €201.67. As BNS pays about $2.28 a year in dividend it yields 4%. My expected dividend after taxes is raised a bit to about €402 a year. This is lower than I reported in earlier posts. Because the dollar is taking a hit compared to the Euro, my expected dividend income has dropped a couple of percents recently. BNS is a new position for me. You can see a dividend stock analysis of this company by roadmap2retire  here. .

Today I my expanded on my position in Whitesone REIT (WSR). WSR attracted new capital for the purchase of two new properties. The share price dropped about 9% premarket. I bought another 18 shares for $12.94 a share. Including transaction fees the total costs of this purchase were €217.12 or €12.06 per share. With the annual dividend of €1.06 this purchase yields 8.8%. My expected annual dividend is raised by about 16 euros after taxes, bringing the total just above €400 after taxes. I now own 73 shares of WSR and this will provide me with a monthly dividend income of €5.50 after taxes. With this purchase my cost base drops from €13.21 to €12.92 per share. YOC will be 8.24%.

Today I expanded my position in OHI. I bought another 10 shares for $34.24 per share. Including transaction fees of €0.54, the total costs were €323.03 or €32.30 I already owned 30 shares at a cost basis €31.03 per share, so my cost basis has risen somewhat to €31.34. Last quarter OHI paid a dividend of $0.62 and is known to raise it's dividend every quarter. But at this dividend the yield on cost of this purchase is 7.6% and 7.9% on all my shares. This purchase will raise my expected yearly dividend income by $26.20 before taxes. After taxes my annual expected dividend income is increased to €385.

I had still a little bit of collected dividend lying around on my brokerage account which wasn't quite enough to buy a single share of most companies. However, Whitestone REIT (WSR) was going around for only $13 a piece today. So I purchased just 3 shares of WSR to add to my other 50 at a price of $12.95 a piece. At this share price WSR yields a whopping 8.8%.Including transaction fees the total share price is €12.41. This purchase will increase my expected annual income by just €2.75 after taxes at current exchange rates. My cost basis for WSR is reduced from €13.28 to €13.23, just a marginal change. YOC is now 8.6%. Whitestone just reported solid financial figures over 2016. When I have some more money availlable and the price is still attractive I will expand on this position.

After Target Corporation (TGT) presented their 2016 financial figures and the 2017 financial outlook, share price dropped significantly premarket. TGT closed on monday at $66.51 and was going around $58 premarket. I placed a buy order for $57.50 a share for 5 shares. I didn't have too much cash lying around because of a €12k extra mortgage payment that is due for today. When the markets opened the order was executed immediately at a share price of $57.43 a share, so now I own 5 extra shares of TGT and 15 in total. Including transaction fees this buy costed €271.63 or €54.33 a share. My cost base for TGT dropped from €61.90 to €59.38. The yield on cost (YOC) is now 3.8%. And after taxes this buy increases my net annual dividend income with €9.62 to almost €360.

Today I made another purchase. I bought another 10 shares of Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI) I now own 30 shares. OHI has been undervalued for a while and frankly I don't totally understand why. It can't just be the announced interest rate hikes this year. And they produced great 2016 figures just a while back. So anyway, I bought 10 shares for $30.80 a share. Including transaction fees the price per share in Euros was €29.18. At this shareprice OHI yields 8% My average cost basis is now €31.03. The dividend yield is 7.5%. This purchase increases my net expected annual dividend income with €19.88 to €345.

Today I initiated a new position. I bought 5 shares of Walmart (WMT) at $67.85 per share. Including transaction fees the cost basis is $67.95. Dividend yield is 2.9%. With this purchase my expected annual dividend income is increased with €8 to approximately €325. WMT has come down the last month. It is already climbing back up a little bit earlier this week. In the DGI community I don't see many purchases of WMT, but it is a strong company with a great divididend history. Also WMT pays dividend in the first month of every quarter, which are the off months for my portfolio at the moment. I now have initiated four new positions this year. That was one of the goals I set for 2017. The next months I won't be buying as much as the first 5 weeks of the year as we'll be paying off our mortgage more aggressively in the coming months.

After the 2016 report of Unilever (AMS: UNA) this morning, the stock price of UNA fell with almost 2 Euros. This gave me the green light to add to my holdings. I made a purchase order for 13 shares at a limit price of €37.65. This afternoon the shareprice dropped (shortly) under this limit, so the purchase was made. Including transaction fees the cost basis was €491.55 in total or €37.81 per share. With their quarterly dividend of €0.3201 per share, this purchase will yield almost 3.4% before taxes. This purchase will increases my expected yearly dividend €14.14 after taxes to €320. I now own 45 shares of UNA with a cost base of €38.56. The yield on costs is 3.3%.

Earlier this week I bought 5 shares of Target Corporation (TGT), today I bought 5 more for $65 per share. This will put my expected annual net dividend income well over €300. Now I own 10 shares of TGT at a cost basis of €619.03. Dividend yield is now 3.66%. TGT is down this week after disappointing Holiday sales. However, I like the deal they struck with the Major League Soccer (MLS) this week. I think this is going to pay off in the next few years. Soccer is growing in popularity in the US and is still the most commercial sport worldwide.

With the new year barely started I'm on a roll initiating some new positions. After the AbbVie purchase just over a week ago, yesterday I got myself another new position. Yesterday, I bought 4 shares of Texas Instruments (TXN) at a price of $74.80 per share. Including service fees the total costs were €282.38. TXN pays a quarterly dividend of $0.50 per share which increases my expected forward 12 month dividend income by eight dollars or €6,42 bringing it to amost €287. TXN is a dividend achiever and placed no. 7 on SureDividend's top 10 dividend achievers list  of last December. An analysis of TXN can be found here . If the divididend paying schedule is similar to 2016, TXN will go ex dividend in the last week of January.

Yesterday I did my first purchase of the year. While expenses are high in the end of December and the beginning of January, I was able to do a small purchase of AbVie (ABBV). I bought 3 shares at $62.75 a share. Including transaction fees the cost base will be $62.92. ABBV pays $0.64 per quarter the yield on costs will be just over 4%, 4.07% to be exact. Since ABBV will go ex dividend at January 11th, I will nicely pick up the dividend. Payout will be in Fruary. This buy increases my forward 12 month dividend with $7,68 before taxes. After taxes and at the current exchange rate this will be €6.28 bringing it to about €280.

Last two weeks I have been thinking about relocating my RDSA stock from my online brokerage account to the brokerage account I have at my home bank. This bank is where I have my mortgage, some of my saving accounts, my payment account and my credit card. The reason why I wanted to move the stocks there was being eligible for the dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP) of Royal Duytch Shell. Owning 60 shares of RDSA I am receiving sufficient dividend each quarter to receive 1 extra share, even now that the stock price has risen significantly over the last few months. However, while my online broker has very low transaction fees for regular buys of shares, I would have to pay €7,50 when I would want to DRIP. Buying 1 share in the regular way would only cost €2. So DRIPping at my online broker is no option and paying 2 euros to buy one share is no option form me as well, because this would mean a transaction fee of over 8%. However, at my home bank, DRIP is free. It has much higher re...

This moring I made another purchase of Unilever (AMS.UNA). After the rate hike by the Fed, US stocks were getting much more expensive due to the increasing dollar/euro exchange rate. I didn't think I would be able to do another purchase this year, but paying off a debt on my previous home earlier this month (and saving up the dividends I received) made it possible to do this purchase. That is why I decided to add to one of my Euro positions. Since RDSA is already the largest position I have and has increased in value a lot since the OPEC deal, I decided tot buy some more Unilever stock. I bought 9 shares at a price of €37,75 per share. Including transaction fees this totalled €341.82 and a cost basis of €37.98. The puchase will add €11,52 before taxes or €9,80 after taxes to my annual dividend income. The yield on this purchase is 3,37% and I am expecting a dividend increase announcement before the next dividend payout in march, so it might get a bit higher. However, this i...

After selling TGT yesterday I was looking to add to one of my existing positions. I decided to add 9 shares to my Coca-Cola holdings. Why did I choose or KO and not one of my other holdings? Well the truth is it was my smallest holding and it is now at a much lower price than the other shares I bought. So yesterday I bought another 9 shares of KO for $41.20 each. My total position is now 28 shares of KO. This purchase will add $12.60. So selling TGT and buying KO has increased my yearly dividend income by three dollars.

In the aftermath of the Trump election for president I already bought some shares of Unilever (AEX: UNA). At the opening of the New York Stock Exchange I also made a purchase of shares of a company I already owned"Target Corporation. Stock prices were going up and down at the beginning of the market and I bought 4 shares at $66.80 per share. Including transaction fees the total costs ware €61.12 per share. Target Corporation is a Dividend Aristocrat and has a record of 45 years of consecutive dividend growth. Target pays $2.40 per share per year, which gives me a yield on cost of 3.57% and will increase my 12 month forward pretax dividend income with €8.73 to €270.06. My net annual dividend income is now €229.55. Target will go ex dividend on November 14 th, so in 5 days I will earn the first dividends for this company This purchase will probably be the last one of the year because of expenses we are expecting in December.

After Donald Trump was voted the next president of the USA, the general idea was that stock markets would take a dive. It looked like that was going to happen at the opening of the Amsterdam stock market, but with predictions of a 20 point drop (5%) the AEX is now only 1% negative. However one of my favourite Dutch dividend stocks, Unilever (AEX: UNA) has dropped within 1 euro of its 52 week low. So I bought another 8 shares of UNA at €37,25. Including transaction fees I paid €300,05 in total, making it €37,51 per share. I no own 23 shares of UNA which I bought at average costs of €39,21. This purchase will increase my annual dividend by €10,24 before taxes bringing it to €260 per year before taxes. I hope there will be a dip at the start of the markets in the USA as well. Than I will try to make another purchase on a new position.