Recent Buy - Unilever N.V. (UNA)

24th September 2015 I Bought 50 shares of Unilever N.V. at €34.31 per share plus commission. 

Unilever N.V. operates as a fast-moving consumer goods company in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australasia, Africa, the Middle East, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. The company operates through Personal Care, Foods, Refreshment, and Home Care segments. The Personal Care segment offers skincare and haircare products, deodorants, and oral care products. The Foods segment provides soups, bouillons, sauces, snacks, mayonnaise, salad dressings, margarines, and spreads. The Refreshment segment offers ice cream, tea-based beverages, and weight-management products, as well as operates retail stores that provide tea and tea ware products under the T2 brand. The Home Care segment provides home care products, such as powders, liquids and capsules, soap bars, and various cleaning products. Unilever N.V. primarily offers its personal care products under the Dove, Rexona, Axe, Lux, Sunsilk, Lifebuoy, and Regenerate brands; foods under the Knorr, Hellmann’s, Rama/Blue Band, Becel, and Flora ProYactiv brands; refreshments under the Wall’s, Magnum, Cornetto, Ben & Jerry’s, Lipton, Brooke Bond, PG tips, T2, and Talenti Gelato & Sorbetto brands; and home care products under the Cif, Domestos, Persil, Omo, and Comfort brands. It sells its products through own sales force, as well as through independent brokers, agents, and distributors to chain, wholesale, co-operative and independent grocery accounts, food service distributors, and institutions. The company was formerly known as Margarine Unie N.V. and changed its name to Unilever N.V. in 1929. Unilever N.V. was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Unilever N.V. is a member of Euro All-Stars List with an 14 year streak of dividend increases. Dividend growth rates for 3, 5 and 10 years are 8.38, 7.58, and 6.6 Unilever N.V. currently pays quarterly dividends of €0.302 per share in March, June, September and December.

Details of my purchase:

A few months ago, Sure Dividend wrote Unilever analysis, if you're interested, you can read it here.

Some ratings for UNA:

   

    Reuters: Mean Rating 2.83

    Zacks Rank: 3-Hold

    Morningstar:  (****)

My last purchase 50 shares of Unilever N.V. increases €45.00 (~$50) of expected annual dividend net income and increases my portfolio projected annual net dividend income to €9950. With purchase price €34.31 plus commission my starting yield on cost is 3.51%.

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Full Disclosure: Long UNA