Last full week of May

This week was best week in 2021. The reason for this is that we received annual dividend from one of our largest positions, Sampo. We also started to restructuring some of our holdings due the fact that our bank will increase the trading costs in some markets, for example in USA. 

We sold out our position in HP Inc @31,6435 USD. We realised 63,55 € profit. We bought 3 shares of British American Tobacco @27,95953 £. This change will increase our 2021 dividends by 2,16 €. We reinvested some dividends and bought 54 shares of Taaleri @12,32204 €. to tax advantaged account. This purchase will increase 2021 dividend income by 54 €. We also bought 2 shares of Lumen Technologies @14,5743 USD. This will increase our 2021 dividend income by 1 €.

This week we received following dividends. 

• 1 share of Main Street Capital as a DRIP worth of 32,23 €
• -1,28 € as a witheld tax from Main Street Capital DRIP
  
• 13,22 € from LTC Properties. 
• 432,19 € from Sampo
• 21,17 € from Carrefour S.A.
• 0,25 € from Gladstone Commercial Reit
• 0,29 € from Gladstone Investment Corp BDC
• 0,62 € from Sabra Health Care Reit
• 25,16 € Interests from Coop memberships. 
  

Total amount of passive income was 523,85 €. Now we have received 990,27 € in May 2021. Total amount of passive income in 2021 is now 3228,09 €, which is more than what we would need to have at end of June to meet our target. We are expecting to receive two more dividends at last day of May. 

Third week of May 2021

This week was nice, even though we did not received a lot of dividends.The week was nice because we had some activity on every day of the week. 

We made only one small purchase this week. We bought 4 shares of Whitestone REIT @8,484 USD. This will increase our 2021 dividend income by 0,7 €.

We received following dividends:

• 0,71 € from Prospect Capital Corp
• 13,39 € from Ocean Yield 
• 46,75 € from Omega Healtcare Investors
• 20,39 € from Realty Income Corp
• 1,39 € from Diversified Healthcare Trust
• 14,29 € from Royal Bank of Canada
• 1,42 € from Main Street Capital

Total amount of dividends this week was 98,34 €. So far we have collected more dividends in May 2021 than in May 2020. As of today the collected amount in May is 466,42 €. We are expecting the large annual dividend from Sampo to land on our accounts next week and that will raise our income above the cumulative June target. So we will move one month ahead of our target pace. Which is great.

 

Second week of May 2021

This week was quite ordinary.We were able to increase our 2021 dividend income by 30,07 € and we received 72,68 € dividends. 

We opened new position at Carrefour S.A. and bought 60 shares @16,81333 € taxes and fees included. This should increase our 2021 dividends by 28,80 €. We also increased our position at Sampo and bought 1 share @41,13 €. This will increase our 2021 dividend income by 1,27 €. 

We received following dividends:

• 17,69 € from Whitestone REIT
• 20,02 € from Abbvie
• 3,74 € from British American Tobacco
• 6,96 € from Inter Pipeline LTD
• 10,98 € from Exchange Income
• 13,29 € from Washington H.Soul Pattinson.

So far we have collected 368,21 € dividends in May which is 70 % of our monhly target. We are still expecting to receive around 600 € this month. We will receive something between 950 € and 1000 € this month in total. 

 

First week of May 2021

It was time to pay installments of our investment loans as always at the beginning of the month. We paid back 502,54 € principal and 23,05 € fees and interests. Even though we have fixed principal payment through loan time, we usually round it up so that payment is even number. We also have possibility to reduce our principal payment down to 0 at will. Total amount of this usable flexible portion is 10 % of original borrowed amount.  We haven't used the flexible portion at all yet. 

This week we reinvested our dividends and made a few small purchases. We bought 4 shares of Tesco Plc @2,2621 £ and 7 shares of Sampo @40,70714 €. Tesco Plc purchase will increase our 2021 income by 0,43€ and Sampo by 11,47€. 

We received following dividends:

• 44,17 € from Verizon 
• 162,88 € from AT&T
• 88,48 € from Fortum

So the first week of May was pretty decent, even though we had only three dividend payers. We received total of  295,53 € which is 56,3% of our whole month's target. 

End of April

We had a great last week of April. We received some surprise dividends as we had not included all the payers in our forecast. This week we made two small purchases. We bought 3 shares of Sabra Healthcare REIT @18,30120 USD. This will increase our 2021 dividend income by 1,91 €. We also bought 5 shares of Tesco Plc @2,24529 £. This will increase our 2021 dividends by 0,34 €. 

This week we received following dividends or capital income:

• 10 € as interest from COOP memberships
• 1 share of Main Street Capital DRIP worth of 33,64 €
• -3,08 € as withhold taxes from Main Street Capital DRIP
  
•  9,47 € from MSC Industrial Direct Co
• 13,29 € from LTC Properties
• 53,16 € from Brickworks ltd
• 16,99 € from Clime Capital
• 1 share of Saratoga Investment DRIP worth of 19,06 €
• 13,34 € from Saratoga Investment DRIP leftovers.
• 13,32 € from Transalta Renewables
• 6,54 € from Cibus Nordic
• 27,96 € from HSBC Holdings
• 0,59 € from Prospect Capital Corp
• 3,20 € from Stellantis
• 0,25 € from Gladstone Commercial Reit
• 0,29 € from Gladstone Investment Corporation BDC

So total amount of passive income in last week of April was 218,02 € which was a lot more than expected.These dividends raised our April dividend income to 658,77 € and we reached the goal of 525 € clearly. Now we are 137,82 € ahead of our target pace. 

This week we also reached a milestone of 25 000 € received passive income from 2008 to today. We have received some dividends earlier than 2008 but we do not have any records for those.