Dividend Income Update March 2018

The start of every month is exciting for all dividend income investors as we look back at the previous month and see how much passive dividend income our portfolios generated. March was exciting as ever as my year over year numbers continue to highlight the trifecta magic of dividend investing which includes, adding fresh capital, dividend raises and basic compounding to create an ever increasing passive income stream. Even if I stopped adding fresh capital today and every dividend stock I owned kept all distributions flat, without a single raise, my passive income stream would continue to grow. With that being said, let’s take a look back at my March 2018 dividend income.

Dividend income from my taxable account totaled $679.27 up from $568.21 an increase of 19.5% from March of last year.

Dividend income from my ROTH account totaled $159.04 up from $140.58 an increase of 13.1% from this time last year.

Dividend income from my IRA account totaled $59.92 down from $98.46 from this time last year, a decrease of -39.1%. (Nothing wrong here. VTR used to pay in March last year which explains the year over year decrease along with CCP which no longer exists after the SBRA merger and a delayed LTC payout which came in April instead of March).

Grand total for the month of March: $898.23 an increase of 11.3% from March 2017.

Brokerage Account

Year to date dividends: $1,255.65

Date Description Symbol Amount 03/01/2018 DIVIDEND:GWW GWW $18.89 03/01/2018 DIVIDEND:BMS BMS $11.23 03/01/2018 DIVIDEND:AFL AFL $93.38 03/01/2018 DIVIDEND:WFC WFC $16.38 03/01/2018 DIVIDEND:PFE PFE $16.66 03/06/2018 DIVIDEND:SO SO $74.52 03/08/2018 DIVIDEND:AMGN AMGN $2.66 03/09/2018 DIVIDEND:EMR EMR $39.48 03/09/2018 DIVIDEND:YUM YUM $21.58 03/12/2018 DIVIDEND:MMM MMM $33.84 03/13/2018 DIVIDEND:JNJ JNJ $37.65 03/13/2018 DIVIDEND:ADM ADM $61.46 03/15/2018 DIVIDEND:DOV DOV $21.85 03/15/2018 DIVIDEND:MCD MCD $29.03 03/15/2018 DIVIDEND:ED ED $53.18 03/19/2018 DIVIDEND:VFC VFC $25.96 03/20/2018 DIVIDEND:D D $57.62 03/21/2018 DIVIDEND:YUMC YUMC $5.87 03/21/2018 DIVIDEND:UL UL $9.11 03/23/2018 DIVIDEND:KHC KHC $36.49 03/29/2018 DIVIDEND:TROW TROW $3.60 03/29/2018 DIVIDEND:GILD GILD $2.87 03/29/2018 DIVIDEND:ALLE ALLE $5.96       Total: $679.27