Sunday, August 30, 2020
Sunday, August 23, 2020
Week in Review 34/20
Welcome and thanks for reading!
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.
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Recent Buy - Aflac Incorporated (AFL)
Monday August 17th, I bought 75 shares of Aflac Incorporated at $ 37.77 per share plus commission.
Aflac Incorporated, through its subsidiaries, provides supplemental health and life insurance products. It operates through two segments, Aflac Japan and Aflac U.S. The Aflac Japan segment offers cancer, medical, income support, and whole and term life insurance products, as well as WAYS and child endowment plans under saving type insurance products. The Aflac U.S. segment provides cancer, accident, short-term disability, critical illness, hospital indemnity, dental, vision, and term and whole life insurance products in the United States. It sells its products through sales associates, brokers, independent corporate agencies, individual agencies, and affiliated corporate agencies. The company was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Columbus, Georgia.
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Friday, August 14, 2020
Recent Buy - Prudential Financial, Inc. (PRU)
Monday August 10th, I bought 40 shares of Prudential Financial, Inc. at $ 69.33 per share plus commission.
Prudential Financial, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides insurance, investment management, and other financial products and services. It operates through eight segments: PGIM, Retirement, Group Insurance, Individual Annuities, Individual Life, Assurance IQ, International Businesses, and Closed Block. The company offers asset management public and private fixed income, public equity and real estate, commercial mortgage origination and servicing, and mutual funds and other retail services to institutional, private, and sub-advisory clients, as well as to insurance company separate accounts, government sponsored entities, and the general account. It provides a range of retirement investment, and income products and services to retirement plan sponsors in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors; and group life, long-term and short-term group disability, and group corporate-, bank-, and trust-owned life insurance in the United States, primarily to institutional clients for use in connection with employee plans and affinity groups. The company develops and distributes individual variable and fixed annuity products, principally to the mass affluent and affluent markets; and individual variable, term, and universal life insurance products to the mass middle, mass affluent, and affluent markets in the United States. It also offers individual life insurance, retirement, and related products to the mass affluent and affluent markets in Japan, Korea, and other foreign countries, as well as middle income and mass affluent markets. In addition, the company provides third-party life, health, Medicare, and property and casualty products to retail shoppers through its digital and independent agent channels. It offers its products and services to individual and institutional customers through its proprietary and third-party distribution networks. The company was founded in 1875 and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Dividend Income - July 2020
July is gone and it's time to look at how the month went in terms of my dividend income. In July 2020 my portfolio dividend income was as follows:
Sunday, August 9, 2020
Saturday, August 8, 2020
Dividend Increase – Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW)
Yesterday, August 7th the Board of Directors of Illinois Tool Works Inc. announced a quarterly dividend increase of from $ 1.07 to $ 1.14 per share that’s payable October 14, 2020 to holders of record September 30, 2020. This represents a 6.54% increase over last quarterly dividend.
With current price $ 190.55 (yesterday's close), this raise brings their dividend yield to 2.39%.