Fourth week of August 2022

As expected this week was very uneventful. We reinvested some of last week's dividends and we bought 1 share of Kesko A @ 21,36 €. This will increase our 2022 dividend income by 0,53 €. 

We have been wondering if we should reduce risk of our portfolio and sell our positions in Saratoga Investment, as Saratoga investment's ability to pay dividends may be at risk. We have not yet made final decision as we have not been able to find suitable home for the money yet. If we sell our position on Saratoga now, we would realize around 7-8 % profit from it. If we can find suitable replacement for this position we most probably will sell SAR next week.

Dividendwise the week was quiet as well. We received only dividends from Royal Bank of Canada. We received 37,90 €. We were not sure if we were eligible for dividends from Bank of Montreal. We bought BMO 1 day before ex-date, so transaction wasn't cleared on time to us receive dividends. 

3rd week of August 2022

This week was action packed week compared to last week. 

We made a few purchases this week. We bought 10 shares of Tele2 B @119,123 SEK. This will increase our 2022 dividend income approximately by 2,80 €. We also bought 15 shares of Kesko A @21,856 €. This will increase our 2022 dividend income by 7,95 €. 

Dividends received this week:

• 13,18 € from Main Street Capital
• 43,16 € from Abbvie
• 25,59 € from Realty Income
• 55,43 € from Omega Healthcare Investors
• 34 shares of Vodafone Group worth 49,82 €
• 0,04 € as remainder from Vodafone DRIP 
  
• 1 share of Main Street capital worth 43,23
• 21,60 from Lazard
• 5,41 from Apple Hospitality Reit
• 18,33 € Exchange Income
• 48,55 € from Owl Rock Capital
• 1,67 € from Diversified Healthcare Trust
• 16,70 € from British American Tobacco

Total of dividends received this week was 342,71 € which is very good. Unfortunately next week will be as uneventful as week before this week. August will most probably be our 2nd worst month in 2022. 

Second week of August 2022

This week was very uneventful. We just realized that we had missed the Main Street Capital dividend increase last week. This dividend hike will increase our 2022 dividends approximately by 3,80 €. MAIN also announced additional dividend payment. This extra dividend will increase our 2022 income approximately by 25,56 €. We received only one dividend of 23,82 € from Whitestone REIT. 

So far we have collected only 81,57 € investment income in August. Our August dividends have been declining since 2019. We have been slowly changing the course, but we most probably won't meet the 2019 level  this year either. 

 

First week of August 2022

A quiet month's quiet first week is over. We sold small amount of funds and realized 4,68 € profit. We have not yet reinvested that money as we are waiting for more dividends to arrive before we make a new purchase. Still, we made one puchase to improve our August income. We bought 51 shares of Lazard @36,86863 USD. This purchase will increase our 2022 dividend income approximately by 43 €. 

As usual, it was again time to make repayment of our investment loan. We paid  291,95 € principal and 38,05 € fees and interests.

The only dividend we received this week was from Verizon. We received 53,07 €. Also Vodafone had dividend payment this week but since we are participating to DRIP we will receive our dividends within 2 weeks as that is the normal time to Vodafone Drip to be sorted out.