Dividend Update: January 2018 and 2019 Comparison!

       A super quick update from a post that has been sitting in draft for, well..... probably sometime in 2018. With a comparison to January 2019. One full year later.

January 2018

Company	Ticker (TSX)	$(Cdn)	Notes
Canadian Apartment REIT	CAR.UN	11.73
Enbridge Income Fund	ENF	11.12
Pizza Pizza	PZA	18.40	258 Shares
Pembina Pipeline Corp.	PPL	21.60
RioCan REIT	REI.UN	9.40
Algonquin Power & Utility	AQN	75.62	525 Shares
Bank of Nova Scotia	BNS	45.82
BCE Inc.	BCE	43.05
Total Dividends		236.74

January 2019, lets see what a whole year has done!

Company	Ticker (TSX)	$(Cdn)	Notes
Canadian Apartment REIT	CAR.UN	14.41	Dividend raise!
TD Bank	TD	30.15	New.
Pizza Pizza	PZA	26.81 (376 Sh	DRIP'd up!
Pembina Pipeline Corp.	PPL	26.22	Dividend Raise!
RioCan REIT	REI.UN	14.40	Dividend raise! Bought more.
Algonquin Power & Utility	AQN	92.22 (549 Shares)	Dividend Raises, US/CAD FX and DRIP's
Bank of Nova Scotia	BNS	49.30	Dividend Raise!
Ishare S&P/TSX	XEI	5.52 (62 Shares)	New
Plaza Retail REIT	PLZ.UN	4.83(207 shares)	New.
Cineplex Inc	CGX	15.66	New.
Total Dividends		279.52	+42.78

    Now for a full year, I have mixed feelings how it went investing wise. In a whole year I would hope to have raised my monthly income comparing the same month a year later by more than $42.78. Part of the lower than liked increase is due to some higher expenses going on in my life, but also from the shifting around of the portfolio in general. The sell of Bell (BCE) which paid into that quarter, Enbridge income fund(ENF) being absorbed by parent company Enbridge (ENB), now paying out in a different Quarter rather than monthly.

   The uptick is from the addition of monthly payers Cineplex (CGX), Plaza Reit (PLZ.UN) and the dividend ETF of XEI. As well as a good amount of DRIP's from Pizza Pizza and Algonquin. PLZ is now also DRIP'ing a share a month.

July 2015 Dividend Update!

    I am always very happy to check my Questrade account throughout the month and periodically see the cash balance rise without any help on my part. July has certainly been no exception, with several big quarterly payouts from AQN, BNS, BCE and TD, along with my stable monthly contributors hitting their mark.

June 2015 Dividend Update!

    June falls in line with one of my more passive months. Where dividend income pretty much just comes from my consistent monthly paying companies. They create the steady base of my overall yearly dividend income, which currently stands at an estimated $1,426 over a full year! The month was also boosted a little by Suncor, adding its quarterly $5.60. So far, even with the drop in oil prices from last summers $100 per barrel Suncor has kept its dividends coming, unlike some other oil companies who have had to cut their payouts.

May 2015 Dividend Update!

    With the ending of the month close at hand, I have received the last of the dividends I expect to get. While May might not have been a record breaking month like April's $144, I have seen my dividend income steadily increase month over month and am extremely happy to be so fortunate as to have and be able to continually invest money over time.

Recent Dividend Increases

   In the past month quite a few of the companies that I hold, as well as a couple comparable sector companies have raised their dividends. And as more companies release their earnings I am looking forward to seeing some more dividend increases in the near future. The following companies in my portfolio gave me a raise in the last month: Toronto Dominion Bank (TD), National Bank of Canada (NA), Royal Bank of Canada (RY) and BCE (Bell Media). As well as Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM) and Rogers Communications (RCI.B).

October 2014 Dividend Update!

    October went by scarily fast, and with a few market scares to boot! And not to mention Halloween frights as well, like snow fall around midnight!!! The good news is that the dividends kept on coming in on schedule and as expected, if not better! My monthly payers keep my baseline income nice and high at around $30 every month, and this time my quarterly paying companies kicked in even more! I'v also benefited this month from having bought more shares of TD which paid out this month and dividend increases from AQN and BNS. My total dividend income this month is my highest yet, with $63.54 in dividend income! That's over double last months $29.59, and $6.28 more than the previous comparable month! That money is pretty much 6 hours of minimum wage work I did not have to do at all and it feels pretty good to see my passive income stream slowly growing.

Here's my full breakdown:

Recent Buy! October 2014

    In the past few weeks the markets been dropping quite a bit, with an overall drop of 11.4% of the S&P/TSX Composite, which certainly hurt a lot of peoples portfolio values but also brought about many tempting opportunities.This week I decided to go with adding to my position in Alqonquin Power and Utilities (AQN). I'v been watching it from the sidelines in a portfolio simulator for about 3 years now and bought my first position in them in December when I first started my portfolio. Since then its gone up 22%, for the past month or so its been trading quite a bit lower than where its price had stabilized at around $9, so I decided to add to the position with 81 new shares at $8.59.

Recent Buy! Mini Addition! September 2014

   Today I did a small buy with a little bit of extra money I had left over from my Suncor purchase. That little bit of left over cash with the ~$20 of dividends that some of my monthly dividend payers deposited into my account and a deposit of fresh capital of $80 on my part allowed me to buy 6 shares of the BMO Canadian Dividend ETF (ZDV).

Recent Buy! September 2014

    Today I was able to add another solid Canadian dividend paying company to my portfolio. I pulled the trigger and bought 20 shares of Suncor (SU) for $43.10. This adds $22.40 to my yearly dividend income, at a yield of %2.6 and represents 7% of my portfolio. As I explained in my recent watchlist post, Suncor is Canada's largest energy company with a market capitalization of over 63 billion!

    I feel pretty good about this buy, since I was working today and not much access to my brokerage

August 2014 Dividend Update!

    The month of August is coming to an end and sadly the last week of summer vacation before many of you or your kids go back to school. The days have started getting a bit shorter and its not quite as warm as it used to be, or at least in Toronto... BUT! The companies in which I have shares of have kept on working just as hard as before, if not harder with some of them having raised their dividends recently. And so here is my dividends for the month of August, where these great companies have once again paid me for enjoying my summer!
 
    This month I received a total of $36.94 in dividends, which is -$20.32 from last months due to fewer quarterly dividends being paid out this month, but it is still a whooping $36.77 more than I got last August where all I had were a few hundred in a dividend mutual fund. Already this year I have received a total of $223.75 in dividends, that's roughly 22 hours of minimum wage work I did not have to do!

Recent Dividend Increases!

 
Dividend Increases! These two little words are exactly what I like to see from companies whose shares I own. They generally mean business is going very well and so the companies are willing and able to give back a bit more of their profits to investors! This month has been quite good for my portfolio, with three these three companies declaring dividend increases: Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), the Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) and the Royal Bank of Canada (RY). It's just so nice to be getting paid more, even if it is just a few cents more for simply holding onto a quality company and looking forward to higher dividend payouts and hopefully more dividend increases in the future.

Here is a breakdown of the dividend increases and how they are affecting my portfolio.
  
Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN):
CDN$.085 to US$.0875 or ~CDN$.0955, an increase of 12.4%, dividend yield of 4.22%

July 2014 Dividend Update!

    So the month of July has pretty much just finished and so I've received another months worth of awesome dividends and distributions from the companies I hold. Hopefully you've all received some good ones as well! This month has been my best month thus far with a grand total of $57.26 in passive income! That's roughly 5 hours of minimum wage work that I didn't have to do this month! :)

June 2014 Dividend Income

    So another month has passed and as expected this month was fairly light on the dividend income due to having no quarterly payouts from my investments. However I did receive the following monthly distributions:

Dream Office REIT (D.UN)     $11.39
Pizza Pizza (PZA)                    $4
Pembina Pipeline (PPL)          $1.31
BMO Cdn. Div ETF (ZDV)       $.93
Ishares 1-5yr GovBond (CLF) $.64

Dividend Income: January - May Catch-up Post!

    So since I'v only recently started this blog and also having only really gotten my portfolio going since January I shall do one 'big' month by month catch-up post on my dividend income thus far. Going forward I'll do a monthly posting. I know its one of the aspects of my portfolio that I look forward to during and at the end of the month to see how much money iv made not working! On other blogs as well I always love seeing how people's portfolios have grown in income from the previous year.

January
Dream Office REIT (D.UN)     $4.11
Algonquin Power (AQN)          $7.57
BCE Inc (BCE)                         $4.66
Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS)     $3.72
Scotia Mutual Fund                  $1.17                * Sold off in Febuary.

Total:                                        $21.23