Week in Review 47/14

Welcome and thanks for reading! In this review, I will gather together important and interesting news and events over the last week related to my portfolio holdings. In my week review, I put also together some interesting articles from other websites that caught my attention during the past week.

Dividends from My Portfolio Holdings:

• On November 17 I received a dividend of € 80.92 from Alerian MLP ETF.
• On November 17 I received a dividend of € 16.14 from American Realty Capital Properties.
• On November 18 I received a dividend of € 52.48 from Kinder Morgan Inc. 

Dividend income reported after the deduction of taxes. I have also updated my Monthly Dividend sheet.

News from My Portfolio Holdings:

Chevron Corporation: November 17, 2014

• Chevron Confirms First Oil Production From Tubular Bells in the Gulf of Mexico (More here)

Target Corporation: November 19, 2014 Third Quarter Result (More here)

• Third quarter Adjusted EPS of $0.54 was above the expected range of $0.40 to $0.50.
• Third quarter U.S. Segment comparable sales growth of 1.2 percent was better than the expected range of flat to 1 percent. Comparable sales reflect third quarter digital sales growth of more than 30 percent.
• U.S. Segment transactions declined 0.4 percent, an improvement of more than 1 percentage point compared with the first half of the year.
• Third quarter Canadian Segment sales increased 43.8 percent from third quarter last year, on comparable sales growth of 1.6 percent.
• Target paid dividends of $330 million in third quarter 2014, an increase of 21.4 percent from $271 million last year.

 

Intel Corporation: November 20, 2014

• Intel Announces Increase in Quarterly Cash Dividend, 2015 Business Outlook at Annual Investor Meeting (More here)

 

Kinder Morgan Inc. November 20, 2014 

• Kinder Morgan Announces Shareholder and Unitholder Approval of the Merger Transactions; Transactions Expected to Close Nov. 26 (More here)

Articles that caught my attention:

• WarrenBuffett Continues To Sell, Sell, Sell Procter & Gamble by Tim McAleenan Jr. on The Financial Home Of Tim McAleenan Jr.
• ShouldDividend Investors own Non-Dividend Paying Stocks? by Dividend Growth Investor
• UndervaluedDividend Growth Stock of the Week by Dividend Mantra on Daily Trade Alert
• DividendAristocrats In Focus Part 41: Abbott Laboratories (ABT) by Ben Reynolds on Sure Dividend
• TheGolden Age Of Financial Independence by Dividend Mantra
• GeneralElectric Stock Analysis Pollie Style by Polliesdividend
• WarrenBuffett Buys Surprisingly These 8 Dividend Stocks by Tom Roberts on Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment
• Goalreached: $14,500 Forward Passive Income by My Dividend Pipeline
• Independentthinking for successful dividend investing by Dividend Growth Investor
• DividendAristocrats In Focus Part 42: Procter & Gamble (PG) by Ben Reynolds on Sure Dividend
• ShareBuyback Programs are Big News for Dividend Investors by Dividend Diplomats
• StockAnalysis: Exxon Mobil Corporation by FerdiS on Seeking Alpha
• WarrenBuffett’s IBM Investment And Its Dividends by Tim McAleenan Jr. on The Financial Home Of Tim McAleenan Jr.
• 75Fairly Valued High Current Income Dividend Stocks For Your RetirementPortfolios: Part 2 by Chuck Carnevale on Seeking Alpha

I wish all readers a nice next week. 

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