Stock Purchases – February 2017

2017, Moves / Steve

What’s up FIRE bronies. Time for some more stock purchases!

I’ve been doing some more buying, adding some of this and a little of that, hoping to catch a few deals in an expensive market.

Companies I Bought

Company Symbol	Company Name	Shares Purchased	Purchase Price	Total Dollar Amount	Yearly Income
[stock_quote symbol="TSE:AQN"]	Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp	1000	$11.20	$11,200	$613.20
[stock_quote symbol="TSE:CPG"]	Crescent Point Energy	200	$14.05	$2,810	$72.00
[stock_quote symbol="TSE:ALA"]	Altagas Ltd	200	$32.00	$6,400	$420.00
[stock_quote symbol="TSE:BIP.UN"]	Brookfield Infrastructure Partners	56	$46.20	$2,587	$97.44
				Total Yearly Dividend Increase	$1,202.64

Nuts and Bolts

I decided not to start any new positions but instead, added to existing companies I already own.

I’m pretty high on energy and utilities right now.

I will probably add more shares to AQN.

I’m still sitting on a large pile of cash at the moment and am really hoping for a correction sometime in this year.

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Dividend Income – January 2017

2017, Dividends / Steve

Last month was my best payday ever with a dividend income of $766.38 for December. That put my year total to over the 6G mark that I was pushing hard to hit. Let’s take a look at January.

This year, my goal is to smash $8,000! It’s a pretty lofty goal and I figure I need to save around 50 grand of new capital to hit this mark, based on a 4% dividend on new purchases.

$50,000 will be around a 70% savings rate. I’m not going to lie, this is going to be extremely difficult. A family of 5 on a single income with children in every activity known to man, we shall see…

January Dividend Income

For the month of January I received dividends from 14 different companies (and 1 company twice):

TICKER	COMPANY NAME	AMOUNT
TSE:AX.UN	Artis REIT	$99.72
TSE:CLF	Canada Bonds	$72.00
TSE:PLZ.UN	Plaza REIT	$69.54
TSE:AQN	Algonquin	$69.24
WDC	Western Digital	$60.50
TSE:NVU.UN	Northview Apartment REIT	$46.17
TSE:NVU:UN	Northview Apartment REIT	$41.01
TSE:D.UN	Dream Office REIT	$37.75
TSE:TA	TransAlta	$35.60
BEN	Franklin Resources	$30.00
TSE:ALA	AtlaGas	$26.51
TSE:BEI.UN	Boardwalk REIT	$19.13
TSE:PZA	Pizza Pizza	$16.04
TSE:CPG	Cresent	$9.00
TSE:SJR.B	Shaw	$7.41
	TOTAL	$639.32

I received $639.32 in dividends for the month of January.

What should I do with all this free cash? I could buy a…

LG 43″ 4K UHD Smart LED with WebOS 3.0

Dividend Income — Look at all these pixels~

Full HD 1080p with a whopping 8.3 million pixels!!!!

Well, instead of buying a nice TV, I decided to DRIP my money to buy more high quality stocks to compound that growth!

43″ just ain’t good enough.

Grow

Nuts and Bolts

My year over year increase was 74.15% or $272.12 more than January 2016
My quarter over quarter increase was 33.32%
I had a great quarter, I’m moving in the right direction

Month	2015	2016	2017	2017 $ INC	2017 % INC
January	$152.00	$367.00	$639.12	$272.12	74.15%
February	$229.00	$427.00	$0.00	0	0.00%
March	$385.00	$602.00	$0.00	0	0.00%
April	$201.00	$313.00	$0.00	0	0.00%
May	$375.00	$456.00	$0.00	0	0.00%
June	$475.00	$676.00	$0.00	0	0.00%
July	$200.00	$380.00	$0.00	0	0.00%
August	$375.00	$501.00	$0.00	0	0.00%
September	$499.00	$716.88	$0.00	0	0.00%
October	$236.00	$479.38	$0.00	0	0.00%
November	$418.00	$514.57	$0.00	0	0.00%
December	$624.00	$760.03	$0.00	0	0.00%
YTD Total	$4,169.00	$6,192.86	$639.12	$272.12	-89.68%