June 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 as well as investing in a separate brokerage account during that time period and contributing to a Roth IRA for the last 4 years. I have decided to share my monthly dividend income to show what regular saving and investing can accomplish.

For the month of June I made $4,581.27; an increase of 59.64% versus this time last year. What a difference a year makes, I remember last June was with all the dividend cuts so a massive jump compared to then was not entirely a surprise.  Two big contributors compared to last year was receiving my BEP/BEPC and NEWT payments in June instead of July and of course all those fantastic dividend raises announced earlier this year really kicked in.

On the home front my expenses have remained the same which means my savings rate has stayed steady at 24.9%. I did get out this month and enjoyed a meal (twice) at a restaurant and even went out to the pub one evening to enjoy some time with the boys.  It is a still a far cry from normalcy, but it felt good.  I had a vacation scheduled for the last week of June but with the sweltering heat it scuttled our plans, so we stayed home and enjoyed our pool. I still have quite a bit of vacation time so maybe August we’ll try again.

There were no violent swings in the markets but the end of July and August is the traditional vacation time for Wall Street so it will be interesting to see if we have light trading volume and volatile markets or if COVID restrictions will mute this affect. As far as a watch list, there are no screaming value plays however I did add some pipeline MLPs to my watch list.  For July my plan is to continue to just monitor 50+ stocks and buy in small allotments when an opportunity presents itself.

Date	Symbol	Company	Amount
6/1/21	ALE	ALLETE INC	$127.25
6/1/21	PSX	PHILLIPS 66	$25.56
6/1/21	SJM	SMUCKER J M CO	$4.08
6/1/21	WMT	WALMART INC	$14.48
6/3/21	CMI	CUMMINS INC	$37.67
6/3/21	DFS	DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES	$11.40
6/4/21	BLV	VANGUARD BD INDEX FDS LONG TERM BOND	$14.36
6/4/21	PFE	PFIZER INC	$225.38
6/4/21	VCLT	VANGUARD SCOTTSDALE FUNDS LONG-TERM COR	$15.74
6/7/21	HYG	ISHARES TR IBOXX HI YD ETF	$17.88
6/7/21	PFF	ISHARES TR PFD AND INCM SEC	$53.57
6/7/21	SO	SOUTHERN CO	$63.37
6/8/21	JNJ	JOHNSON &JOHNSON	$184.06
6/8/21	VLO	VALERO ENERGY CORP	$35.28
6/9/21	UPS	UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC	$227.86
6/10/21	CVX	CHEVRON CORP NEW	$22.61
6/10/21	IBM	INTERNATIONAL BUS MACH CORP	$146.74
6/10/21	MPX	MARINE PRODUCTS CORP	$0.01
6/10/21	MSFT	MICROSOFT CORP	$61.03
6/11/21	WBA	WALGREENS BOOTS ALLIANCE INC	$45.49
6/14/21	MMM	3M CO	$57.35
6/14/21	UL	UNILEVER PLC SPON ADR	$13.05
6/15/21	AVA	AVISTA CORP	$132.44
6/15/21	FAF	FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORP	$146.29
6/15/21	NWL	NEWELL BRANDS INC COM	$25.56
6/16/21	DUK	DUKE ENERGY CORP	$63.58
6/16/21	VTRS	VIATRIS INC COM	$7.70
6/17/21	PRU	PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INC	$477.16
6/17/21	PSEC	PROSPECT CAP CORP	$155.54
6/18/21	BHB	BAR HARBOR BANKSHARES	$48.25
6/18/21	BP	BP PLC SPONSORED ADR	$8.26
6/18/21	CMP	COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL INC	$137.52
6/18/21	R	RYDER SYSTEM INC	$52.68
6/18/21	WM	WASTE MANAGEMENT INC	$41.50
6/24/21	QCOM	QUALCOMM INC	$160.93
6/25/21	KHC	KRAFT HEINZ CO	$9.30
6/25/21	LMT	LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP	$5.24
6/29/21	TROW	PRICE T ROWE GROUPS	$16.54
6/30/21	ARCC	ARES CAPITAL CORP	$480.49
6/30/21	AVGO	BROADCOM INC	$7.20
6/30/21	BEP	BROOKFIELD RENEWABLE PARTNERS PARTNERSH	$266.34
6/30/21	BEPC	BROOKFIELD RENEWABLE CORP CLASS A SUBOR	$66.52
6/30/21	CTO	CTO RLTY GROWTH INC	$54.08
6/30/21	GATX	GATX CORP COM STK USD0.625	$53.15
6/30/21	GRMN	GARMIN LTD	$67.89
6/30/21	NEWT	NEWTEK BUSINESS SVCS CORP	$567.26
6/30/21	PEP	PEPSICO INC	$55.25
6/30/21	WEYS	WEYCO GROUP INC	$25.11
6/30/21	M1 Finance	M1 DIVIDEND GROWTH ACCOUNT	$45.27