Today I bought more shares of ABT to my dividend portfolio at $65.37 per share. 12/27/2012 09:40:48 Bought 15 ABT @ 65.3699 Total shares held as of today: 34 Estimated annual dividend*: $73.44 Consecutive Dividend Increase: 39 years Dividend yield today: 3.44% Dividend 5yr Growth: 10.23% Dividend paid since: 1926 * Note: The dividend is Continue reading →
Making 45% Annually Trading Options Against Dividend Growth Stocks
Futures point to selloff tomorrow
The market finished up today, however, as of this writing the U.S. futures point to heavy selling tomorrow morning. S&P 500 is down -23.90 / 1.66%, Nasdaq -40.00 / 1.49% and Dow -211.00 / 1.50%. So be ready for bumpy ride tomorrow. Another investment I am closely watching is Gold GLD. Today we experienced another Continue reading →
Abbott declares $0.14/share qtr. dividend, what the heck?!
Were you also surprised finding out that the Abbott‘s dividend rate fell to 0.14 a share and started creeping what was going on? Well, today my stock spreadsheet showed up with this dividend rate and yield, see a print screen below. I knew Abbot was going to split in January 2013, but I didn’t realize Continue reading →
New trade – adding Gold ETF (GLD)
Gold retreated to its 200 day MA today and I decided to add a few shares to my holding, since I consider this attractive price. I see some similarities and pattern in GLD corrections, (see the chart below) and thus I believe we are in similar pattern as in 2008. Also I want to be Continue reading →
Abbott Declares 356th Consecutive Quarterly Dividend
1:59 PM Abbott Laboratories declares $0.54/share quarterly dividend, 6% increase from prior dividend of $0.51. Forward yield 3.31%. For shareholders of record Feb. 15. Payable Feb. 15. Ex-div date Jan. 11. (PR)
Is Full Circle Capital (FULL) presenting itself as a buy?
I hold Full Circle Capital (FULL) shares in my portfolio. As I learned today, this company belongs to a business development companies category or BDC. These companies are investing into small businesses and many of them are regulated investment companies RICs. That means that this type of companies are required to pay at least 90% Continue reading →
New trade – adding Realty Income (O)
Today I realized a part of my planned buying of Realty Income stock. Maybe little too early since I am expecting more drop in price, but I will be buying more later if that happens. I am also planning on adding SDY to my portfolio, but this didn’t happen today and I moved my buy Continue reading →
New trade – adding Abbott (ABT)
Today I bought more shares of ABT to my dividend portfolio at $63.58 per share. 11/23/2012 09:30:14 Bought 6 ABT @ 63.5799 Total shares held as of today: 19 Estimated annual dividend: $38.76 Consecutive Dividend Increase: 39 years Dividend yield today: 3.22% Dividend 5yr Growth: 10.23% Dividend paid since: 1926
New trade – adding McDonald’s (MCD)
Today I bought more shares of MCD to my dividend portfolio at $84.61 per share. 11/19/2012 09:30:13 Bought 5 MCD @ 84.6099 Total shares held as of today: 15 Estimated annual dividend: $46.20 Consecutive Dividend Increase: 35 years Dividend yield today: 3.66% Dividend 5yr Growth: 20.40% Dividend paid since: 1976
New trade – Armour Residential (ARR)
Today I bought a few shares of Armour Residential (ARR) stock and increased my holding in this company. There were two reasons why I decided to do so: A huge price drop a sell off which was so scary to me that I was at first doubting whether to hold this company at all, but Continue reading →
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