January Dividend Income

After 33 years of clocking in and out of work and religiously saving 10% annually in my 401K every year, in good times and bad, I have decided to share my monthly dividend income to show what regular saving and investing can accomplish.

For the month of January I made $3,097.88; a decrease of -3.93% versus this time last year. This decrease is a bit illusionary as a couple of typical January payers were pushed into February. First was B&G Foods (BGS) who decided to pay on Feb. 1 instead of the end of the month. The second was Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM) who did pay a dividend in January however, due to the dividend reinvestment policy at Fidelity it will not be crediting my account until Monday.

Overall market valuations for the most part remained high but there was some softness in consumer prepared foods like SJM & GIS which I picked up during the month of January but that was short lived as prices moved back up across the sector. Going into February here are the stocks on my watch list; AbbVie (ABBV), BCE Inc (BCE), Genuine Parts Co (GPC), Leggett & Platt (LEG), Lockheed Martin (LMT), Unilever (UL), Viatris Inc. (VTRS) and Verizon (VZ).

Date	Symbol	Company	Amount
1/25/21	AMNF	ARMANINO FOODS DISTINCTION INC	$24.85
1/15/21	APTS	PREFERRED APARTMENT COMMUNITIES INC	$82.97
1/15/21	AQN	ALGONQUIN PWR UTILS CORP	$176.81
1/20/21	BCE	BCE INC	$61.02
1/29/21	BNS	BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA	$24.76
1/15/21	CPT	CAMDEN PROPERTY TRUST	$12.73
1/19/21	GSK	GLAXOSMITHKLINE ADR	$163.25
1/6/21	IRM	IRON MOUNTAIN INC	$470.25
1/15/21	KBAL	KIMBALL INTERNATIONAL INC	$2.36
1/15/21	LEG	LEGGETT &PLATT INC	$69.21
1/7/21	MPW	MEDICAL PROPERTIES TRUST INC	$171.07
1/8/21	MRK	MERCK &CO. INC	$122.65
1/29/21	OGE	OGE ENERGY CORP	$125.46
1/7/21	PEP	PEPSICO INC	$28.64
1/4/21	PPL	PPL CORP	$762.52
1/21/21	PSEC	PROSPECT CAP CORP	$155.54
1/6/21	TU	TELUS CORPORATION	$41.39
1/4/21	WMT	WALMART INC	$14.22
1/15/21	WPC	WP CAREY INC	$544.61
1/4/21	AGR	AVANDRID, INC	$22.92
1/29/21	M1 Finance	M1 DIVIDEND GROWTH ACCOUNT	$20.65