Week in Review 17/19

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In this review, I will make a summary of important and interesting news and events over the last week related to my portfolio holdings. Also, I will put together some interesting articles from other websites that caught my attention during the past week.

Dividend Increase – Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)

Yesterday, April 25, the Board of Directors of Johnson & Johnson announced a quarterly dividend increase of from $ 0.90 to $ 0.95 per ordinary share that’s payable June 11, 2019 to holders of record May 28, 2019. This represents a 5.56 % increase to regular quarterly dividends. With current price $ 139.65 (yesterday's close), this raise brings their dividend yield to 2.72 %.

Since I own 60 shares of JNJ, this will increase my portfolio's projected annual net dividend income by $ 8.94.

Dividend Increase - Lazard Ltd (LAZ)

Yesterday, April 24, the Board of Directors of Lazard Ltd announced a quarterly dividend increase of from $ 0.44 to $ 0.47 per ordinary share that’s payable May 17, 2019 to holders of record May 6, 2019. This represents a 6.82 % increase to regular quarterly dividends. With current price $ 37.59 (yesterday's close), this raise brings their dividend yield to 5.00 %.

Since I own 100 shares of LAZ, this will increase my portfolio's projected annual net dividend income by $ 8.94.

Week in Review 16/19

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In this review, I will make a summary of important and interesting news and events over the last week related to my portfolio holdings. Also, I will put together some interesting articles from other websites that caught my attention during the past week.

Dividend Increase - Unilever N.V. (UNA)

Yesterday, April 18, the Board of Directors of Unilever announced a quarterly dividend increase of from € 0.3872 to € 0.4104 per ordinary share that’s payable June 5, 2019 to holders of record May 3, 2019. This represents a 5.99 % increase to regular quarterly dividends. With current price € 52.27 (yesterday's close), this raise brings their dividend yield to 3.14 %.

Since I own 80 shares of UNA, this will increase my portfolio's projected annual net dividend income by € 5.53.

Dividend Increase – Kinder Morgan, Inc. (KMI)

Yesterday, April 17, the Board of Directors of Kinder Morgan, Inc. announced a quarterly dividend increase of from $ 0.20 to $ 0.25 per ordinary share that’s payable May 15, 2019 to holders of record April 30, 2019. This represents a 25.00 % increase to regular quarterly dividends. With current price $ 19.69 (yesterday's close), this raise brings their dividend yield to 5.08 %.

Since I own 200 shares of KMI, this will increase my portfolio's projected annual net dividend income by $ 29.80.

Week in Review 15/19

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In this review, I will make a summary of important and interesting news and events over the last week related to my portfolio holdings. Also, I will put together some interesting articles from other websites that caught my attention during the past week.

Recent Buy - AbbVie Inc. (ABBV)

On Tuesday, April 9, I bought 15 shares of  AbbVie Inc. at $ 82.75 per share plus commission.

My overall cost basis of this position increases from $ 63.54 to $ 68.40 per share. I totally hold now 60 shares of ABBV and my yield on cost is 6.26%. You can look at my first purchase of ABBV here.

Dividend Income - March 2019

The first quarter of the year is over and it's time to report my dividend income from March 2019

Quarterly dividends received from:
	€	$		€	$
Unilever N.V. (UNA.AS)	30.98	35.40	Intel Corporation (INTC)	110.19	126.00
QUALCOMM Incorporated (QCOM)	13.81	15.50	Duke Energy Corporation (DUK)	28.62	32.46
WEC Energy Group, Inc. (WEC)	7.78	8.85	Dominion Energy, Inc. (D)	32.15	36.70
Chevron Corporation (CVX)	63.25	71.40	ConocoPhillips (COP)	8,05	9.15
The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC)	35.10	40.00	Target Corporation (TGT)	65.24	73.60
The Home Depot, Inc. (HD)	17.99	20.40	Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)	47.84	54.00
Pfizer Inc. (PFE)	74.35	84.60	Gilead Sciences, Inc. (GILD)	19.65	22.05
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (WBA)	6.15	7.04	McDonald's Corporation (MCD)	20.48	23.20
V.F. Corporation (VFC)	38.21	43.35	Flowers Foods, Inc. (FLO)	29.40	33.30
Triton International Limited (TRTN)	46.38	52.00	3M Company (MMM)	7.65	8.64
Emerson Electric Co. (EMR)	26.14	29.40	Eaton Corporation plc (ETN)	18.84	21.30
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (TROW)	37.26	41.80	Lazard Ltd (LAZ)	82.86	94.00
Magna International Inc. (MGA)	32.23	36.50	Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM)	26.36	29.75
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (DLR)	114.67	129.60	Enbridge Inc. (ENB.TO)	73.38	83.26
Fortis Inc. (FTS.TO)	41.76	47.38	Canadian Utilities Limited (CU.TO)	42.03	47.69
Monthly dividends received from:
				€	$
Main Street Capital Corporation (MAIN)				22.36	25.35
LTC Properties Inc. (LTC)				16.63	19.00
Realty Income Corp (O)				16.91	19.17
Inter Pipeline Ltd. (IPL.TO)				30.66	34.71
Global X SuperDividend ETF (SDIV)				71.85	81.12
TOTAL				€1,357.21	$1,537.67

Week in Review 14/19

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In this review, I will make a summary of important and interesting news and events over the last week related to my portfolio holdings. Also, I will put together some interesting articles from other websites that caught my attention during the past week.