May Dividend Income Report

By | June 1, 2017

This is my May dividend income report for 2017. Oh what an expensive month May has been. I went on a much needed vacation and I’m actually still on vacation right now. I’m typing up this dividend income report while on the train. In terms of investments, May was more exciting because I got paid from three companies instead of one. Last month payers include Realty Income, Apple and Proctor and Gamble. You can also view the dividend tracker as I keep that updated as well. But, without further delay, here goes.

For May 2017, I earned $0.42 from Realty Income representing an increase of $0.01 from past month. I earned $0.76 from Proctor and Gamble and a whopping $1.67 from Apple. This brings my total dividends to $2.85.  Last month was the month I  started to officially track my dividends. Eventually, I’ll be looking at my growth from year to year but right now I only have one month to compare it to. Since I received $0.41 in dividends in April, May represents a 595% increase in one month. Sweet!

The one thing I’ll note is that if you look at my live portfolio, it sometimes does not accurately reflect the annual projected dividend income. This is mainly due to the fact that the Google Sheets is pulling data from yahoo, and sometimes, there is an error loading the data. So, as of today’s writing, even though the portfolio accurately shows the number of shares owned in Realty Income, it does not accurately reflect the dividends per share or even annual dividends. Nothing wrong with the formula. It’s just sometimes Google Sheets and Yahoo doesn’t communicate well. I may eventually find another way to represent my portfolio, but that’s not gonna be any time soon. So, I just have to wait until the problem fixes itself which hopefully should be soon. Until that time, I will just continue to enjoy the increases in my dividend income.

How was May for you?

16 thoughts on “May Dividend Income Report

  1. Project2035

    Nice to see felow small dividend investor 🙂 For me May was rich as most of my main investments paids annual dividrends. Snowballing that portfolios 🙂

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    1. Dividend Portfolio Post author

      That’s good to hear project 2035. I’m glad you had a good month in May. One day I hope to transition from being a small investor but we all have to start somewhere.

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  2. Stockles

    “May represents a 595% increase in one month” Wohooo! Glad you are starting to track your dividend income, and eventually year to year. It´s so motivating!

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    1. Dividend Portfolio Post author

      It definitely is motivating. I can’t wait for next year to see what my returns will be.

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    1. Dividend Portfolio Post author

      Thanks Lanny. That is the plan

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  3. DivHut

    You are going in the right direction. It’s always slow at first but keep building up that passive income stream penny by penny and dollar to dollar. This is a long marathon, the DGI game, so build patiently and wisely. Keep up the good work and WHY!?! were you working while on vacation. Enjoy the train ride. Look out the window, relax. Just my 2 cents!

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    1. Dividend Portfolio Post author

      Hahaha. I don’t count this as work. Currently on another train replying this your comment!!!

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  4. Dividend Daze

    Have to start somewhere. Just keep buying quality companies and you will see those numbers increase in no time. Also, someone actually just commented on my blog today and told me since I didn’t notice it myself till now. But apparently Yahoo Fiance is more less dead. Think they pulled the plug on the API silently so none of their formulas work anymore. Back to the drawing board on a few of those columns sadly. Or have to do more manual work until we can find a better solution or Google implements more features.

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    1. Dividend Portfolio Post author

      Thanks Div Daze. Looking forward to more dividend increases in the coming months and years. I did not know that about Yahoo Finance. That royally sucks. At least the formulas are still pulling data. I also noticed that the chart on the blog looks different. I think that might be a google sheets issue and not a yahoo finance issue. I don’t know. But, I’m not sure I like it.

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  5. Buy, Hold Long

    Well done mate, just an idea…. have you tried using Google finance for pulling in the stock prices. This can be done through your Google Sheets easily. Cheers

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    1. Dividend Portfolio Post author

      thanks BHL. I’m going to look into that. Also, it looks like Google sheets changes how it represents the graph. Not sure if it’s just my computer or a glitch or something. I’m going to have to double check. But, will look into Google finance. Thanks for the suggestion.

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  6. Mr. Robot

    Sweet comparison to last month 😉 No worries we all start small (I’m right there with you) so we’ll see it building up soon enough!

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    1. Dividend Portfolio Post author

      Mr. Robot, it’s actually kind of nice to start to represent the portfolio from the ground up. Hopefully, when we both have large enough portfolios, we can say to other new investors that we each started from the ground up. We did it and so can they. Thanks for the comment.

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  7. timeinthemarket

    I remember when I first started – the dollars may be small but it’s small steps to something much bigger! Good luck on the journey man.

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    1. Dividend Portfolio Post author

      Thanks TITM. Looking forward to taking bigger and bigger and bigger steps!

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