April Dividend Income

After 34 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 April I made $3,909.49; an increase of 36.23% versus this time last year. I realize the year over year gain is slightly exaggerated as April of last year was the start of many a dividend cut or suspension but this is my largest April payout ever.

On the home front my expenses have remained the same which means my savings rate has stayed steady at 24.9%. I finally got my first dose of a COVID vaccine and will be getting the second shot later in May, glad to finally get this out of the way. I gave myself my 12th haircut in April, this has been one of those COVID things I had to learn how to do myself and now that lockdowns have been lifted this is one of the few things I think I will continue to do even though I can see a barber, I actually enjoy cutting my own hair.

In April I received dividend raises from 8 different companies and so many companies reported great earnings. Hopefully all of you got to experience the joy of getting a raise. As far as a watch list, there are no screaming value plays that jump out at me so I’ll continue to monitor a little over 50 dividend stocks for any opportunity that arises.  Unless there is a pullback, I plan on staying with small $200 buying lots for the foreseeable future.

Date	Symbol	Company	Amount
4/1/21	AGR	AVANGRID INC	23.13
4/1/21	BEPC	BROOKFIELD RENEWABLE CORP	66.52
4/1/21	PPL	PPL CORP	763.54
4/5/21	WMT	WALMART INC	14.48
4/6/21	IRM	IRON MOUNTAIN INC	480.3
4/6/21	TU	TELUS CORPORATION	47.55
4/7/21	BLV	VANGUARD BD INDEX FDS LONG TERM BOND	31.97
4/7/21	MRK	MERCK &CO. INC	123.62
4/7/21	VCLT	VANGUARD SCOTTSDALE FUNDS LONG-TERM COR	15.77
4/8/21	HYG	ISHARES TR IBOXX HI YD ETF	17.92
4/8/21	MPW	MEDICAL PROPERTIES TRUST INC	179.68
4/8/21	PFF	ISHARES TR PFD AND INCM SEC	51.47
4/12/21	GSK	GLAXOSMITHKLINE ADR	203.84
4/15/21	APTS	PREFERRED APARTMENT COMMUNITIES INC	82.97
4/15/21	AQN	ALGONQUIN PWR UTILS CORP	180.89
4/15/21	KBAL	KIMBALL INTERNATIONAL INC	2.38
4/15/21	LEG	LEGGETT &PLATT INC	69.85
4/15/21	WPC	WP CAREY INC	554.17
4/16/21	CPT	CAMDEN PROPERTY TRUST	12.73
4/19/21	BCE	BCE INC	93.65
4/22/21	PSEC	PROSPECT CAP CORP	155.54
4/28/21	AMNF	ARMANINO FOODS DISTINCTION INC	31.95
4/30/21	BGS	B&G FOODS INC	256.47
4/30/21	BNS	BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA	25.94
4/30/21	CM	CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE	265.04
4/30/21	OGE	OGE ENERGY CORP	133.63
4/30/21	M1 Finance	M1 DIVIDEND GROWTH ACCOUNT	24.49