Fourth week of May 2022

This week was really uneventful. We did not make any transactions, no new dividend increases were announced and we only received dividend from Royal Bank of Canada, which paid us 33,62 €. This really was all what happened this week, unfortunately. 

Third week of May 2022

This week was yet another quiet week, as next week will be too. Still we were able to receive some dividends and made one purchase. 

We bought 2 shares of Kesko A @22,345 €.  Also Leggett & Platt announced 4,8 % dividend increase.

This week we received following dividends:

• 42,47 € from Abbvie
• 5,29 € from Apple Hospitality Reit
• 1,61 € from Diversified Healthcare Trust
• 1 share from Main Street Capital DRIP, worth 35,03 €
• 8,91 € as a remainder from Main Street Capital DRIP

Total amount of dividends was 93,31 €, which is on the low side. 

Second week of May 2022

This week was very quiet one. We did not make any trasactions and received dividends only on Thursday and Friday. Amount of dividends was decent though. 

We received following dividends:

• 23,36 € from Whitestone Reit
• 9,10 € from Main Street Capital
• 15,36 € from Washington H. Soul Pattinson
• 16,91 € from Waypoint Reit
• 16,97 € from Exchange Income
• 25,17 € from Realty Income 
• 47,67 € from Owl Rock Capital Corp
• 54,62 € from Omega Healthcare Investors

 Total amount of dividends was 209,16 €. 

First week of May 2022

First week of May was quiet dividendwise, but we made some purchases. We opened new position in Alpine Income Property Trust and bought 125 shares @18,578 USD. This purchase should increase our 2022 income approximately by 80 €. We increased our position in Gladstone Commercial Reit by 165 shares @21,09103 USD, adding 130 € to our 2022 dividends. We also increased our position in Capman by 5 shares @2,606 €.

We received following dividends. 

• 51,42 € from Verizon
• 58,55 € from Brickworks
• 16,71 € from British American Tobacco

Total amount of dividends was 126,68, which was decent. 

Last week of April

The last week of April is over and dividendwise the month was best month ever. We are yet to reach the magical 2000 € but this time it was very close. During the last week we received following dividends:

• 10,67 € from MSC Industrial Direct
• 15,27 € from LTC Properties
• 3 shares of Apollo Investment corp worth 36,03 as DRIP
  
• -0,47 for taxes from AINV drip as remainders did not fully cover them.
  
• 1 share of Main Street Capital worth 36,12 € as DRIP
  
• 4,09 € as a remainders from MAIN DRIP
• 19,03 € from Clime Capital
• 8,89 € from Cohen & Streers Infrastructure Fund
• 11,08 € from A&W Revenue Royalties
• 14,87 € from Transalta Renewables
• 36,99 € from HSBC Holdings
• 0,30 € from Gladstone Commercial Reit
• 0,59 € from Gladstone Investment Corp BDC

Total amount of dividends was 193,46 € which is really good. In total we received 1926,60 € dividends in April. 

We also made some transactions last week, and even made one sale. We lowered our position at Nordea Bank by 350 shares @9,36814 €. We downsized the position approximately by 25%. We bought 10 shares of Sampo @47,278 €. After selling part of the Nordea positions, we have a few thousand euros of cash to invest in near future. We haven't decided yet in which companies we will invest though. 

 

3rd week of April

Yet another week is over. Due to easter holidays some of the dividends paid last week arrived this week. We only made one puchase this week. We increased our position in Sampo by 6 shares @48,1266 €. This puchase will increase our 2022 dividends by 24,6 €. 

We received following dividends:

• 5,11 € from Apple Hospitality Reit
• 0,94 € from Orion Office Reit
• 4,56 € from KeurigDrPepper
• 24,28 € from Realty Income 
• 38,59 € from Cardinal Health
• 44,24 € from Aktia
• 46,23 € from Leggett & Platt
• 272,40 € from Taaleri
• 3,24 € from Kesko

We received totally 439,59 € in dividends this week. At this moment our accumulated dividend income in April is 1730,14 €. This is our best monthly dividend income ever and there are still a few companies paying us dividends this month. For our yearly target pace we have now reached the point where we should be at the end of May. 

2nd Week of April

The second week of April is over. Several dividends will arrive next week's tuesday due the easter holidays. We received dividends from seven companies this week:

• 27,85 € from Transcontinental 
• 22,49 € from Whitestone Reit
• 41,17 € from Telia
• 41,22 € from Algonquin Power & Utilities
• 49,78 € from Spirit Realty Capital
• 16,82 € from Exchange Income
• 8,68 € from Main Street Capital 

Total amount of dividends was 208,01 €. A pretty decent amount. 

We reinvested some of the dividends back to work and bought 10 shares of Capman @2,495 €. 

In April we have received 1290,55 € dividends so far, which makes this month our second best month ever. We might even reach the best month ever before the month is over. The best month was last year's October with 1466,21 € dividends. 

First full week of April 2022

First full week of April is over. This week we received dividends only from handful of companies but amount of dividends was substantial. All dividends received this week were reinvested by friday. 

We received following dividends

• 884,81 € from Nordea.
• 14,52 € from Main Street Capital
• 90,06 € from Fortum
• 12,17 € from Kemira
• 33,68 € from Iron Mountain 

Total amount of dividends was 1035,24 € so we reached our monthly target already. Also we reached the cumulative target, so we are now ahead of our target pace, and month has just started. Dividends were reinvested as follows:

• 29 shares of Sampo @45,68207 €
• 15 shares of Capman @2,52867 €
• 12 shares of Kesko @23,0875 €
• 10 shares of Kemira @11,979 €

These purchases will increase our 2022 dividends by 122,86 €. 

End of the first quarter 2022

The first quarter is over and it is time to make summary of the portfolio. Our portfolio grew well even  first quarter in market was bearish in general. In our portfolio only the investment funds trailed a bit behind. Our net portfolio grew by 17005,40 € over first quarter and we do have good reserve of cash.

Investment portfolio

Asset class	1st Apr 21	1st Jul 21	1st Oct 21	31st Dec 21	31st Mar 22
Cash	494,25 €	1 519,58 €	3 079,84 €	6 396,97 €	7 107,92 €
Investment funds	10 331,28 €	9 828,76 €	9 829,82 €	9 834,18 €	9 831,25 €
Coop memberships	1 500 €	1 500 €	1 500 €	1 500 €	1 500 €
Shares	186 531,00€	197 263,20 €	211 134,20 €	227 828,13 €	241 359,58 €
Gross investment portfolio	198 856,53 €	210 111,54 €	225 543,86 €	245 559,28 €	259 799,02 €
Investment loan	21 015,97 €	20 010,80 €	18 489,23 €	16 990,76 €	14 225,10 €
Net investment portfolio	177 840,56 €	190 100,74 €	207 054,63 €	228 568,52 €	245 573,92 €

On last week of March we received quite lot of dividends. 

• 2,96 € from Main Street Capital
• 0,28 € from Gladstone Commercial Reit
• 0,56 € from Gladstone Investment Corporation BDC
  
• 14,42 € from LTC Properties
  
• 2 shares of Saratoga Investment worth 46,75 €
  
• 0,28 € as a remainder from Saratoga DRIP
  
• 6,19 € from Methanex
• 9,83 € from A&W Revenue Royalties 
• 14,33 € from Transalta Renewables 
• 21,22 € from Gilead Sciences
• 27,53 € from Brookfield Infrastructure
• 35,01 € from AGL Energy
• 8,38 € from Cohen & Steers Infrastructure
• 15,50 € from Pepsico
• 20,00 € from Citycon
• 46,75 € from Simon Property Group
  
• 5,47 € from Genuine Parts (April)
• 22,57 € from Coca-Cola
• 18,85 € from Telus 

This week's dividends were 339,45 €. Total dividends in March were 930,97 €, which surpasses the monthly target pace. We expect to meet our 2022 target at end of the Q3. 

Fourth week of March

Last full week of March is over. We increased some of our positions by reinvesting received dividends.

We bought 9 shares of A&W Revenue Royalties IN-UTS @40,78888 CAD, 3 shares of Kemira @12.30667 € and 10 shares of Capman @2,454 €. Purchases were small but at least we put dividends back to work. These purchases will increase our 2022 dividend income approximately by 9,30 €

We received following dividends:

• 10,23 € from Dominion Energy
• 60,01 € from Blackrock Inc
• 55,42 € from Manulife Financial Corp
• 1 share of Main Street Capital worth 36,16 €
• 5,52 € remainder from MAIN DRIP
• 7,20 € from Capman

This week's dividend income was 174,54 €. This is more than what is needed to receive weekly to meet our target so we were able to narrow the gap to our target pace. We are quite happy.