Dividend cut : Nokia

Nokia announced dividend for year 2014 to be 0.14 per share. This is a -62% decrease from previous year 0.33 per share.

Dividend increase : Technopolis

Technopolis announced dividend for year 2014 to be 0.15 per share. This is 50% increase over the previous years 0.10 per share

Dividend increase : Fortum

Fortum announced dividend from 2014 to be 1.30 per share. This is 18% increase over the last years 1.10 per share

Dividend increase : Orava Asuinkiinteistörahastot

Orava Asuinkiinteistörahastot announced a dividend for Q4/2015 to be 0.30 per share. This is a 7% increase over the previous quarters 0.28 per share

Dividend increase : AT&T

AT&T announced dividend for Q4/2014 to be 0.47 per share. This a 2.2% increase from previous quarters 0.46 per share.

Dividend cut : Awilco Drilling

Awilco Drilling annnounced Q4/2014 dividend 1.00 per share. This a -15% cut from previous quarters 1.15 per share

Dividend cut : Vanguard Natural Resources

Vanguard Natural Resources (NASDAQ:VNR), the third-largest upstream MLP by market cap, slashed distributions by -44% on sharply lower oil and gas prices. On a per share basis, distributions will decline from 0.21 per share to approximately 0.1175 per share.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/2924726-vanguard-cut-so-now-what

Realty Income Corp February dividend

Realty Income Corp (NYSE:O) announced a feb 15 dividend on Tuesday, January 20th. Stockholders of record on Monday, February 2nd will be given a dividend of 0.189 per share on Tuesday, February 17th.This is a 3.28% increase over previous months 0.183 per share.

Status update : February 2015

Dividends received in February :

• 8.62€ from AT&T (T)
• 7.72€ from Vanguard Natural Resources (VNR)
• 2.16€ from Realty Income Corp (O)

This makes it a total of 18.50€ in dividends in February. Last year I did not receive dividends at all in February. Even better progress :)

Goals

• 46.3% of monthly goal reached
• 13.7% of quarterly goal reached
• 3.4% of yearly goal reached

New purchase : AT&T

New position started in portfolio - AT&T (NYSE:T)


http://www.att.com

AT&T Inc. is a holding company. The Company is a provider of telecommunications services in the United States and worldwide. The Company services and products include wireless communications, local exchange services, long-distance services, data/broadband and Internet services, video services, telecommunications equipment, managed networking, wholesale services and directory advertising and publishing. AT&T operates in three segments such as Wireless, Wireline, and Other. The Company’s Wireless subsidiaries provide both wireless voice and data communications services across the United States, and through roaming agreements, in a substantial number of foreign countries. Wireline subsidiaries provide primarily landline voice and data communication services, AT&T U-verse high-speed broadband and voice services (U-verse) and managed networking to business customers. Its other segment includes customer information services (operator services) and corporate and other operations.

AT&T (T) pays dividend quartely with 2-5-8-11 schedule. Starting yield at 5.62%

Summary of year 2014

Year 2014 was the first year that I received dividends for this dividend portfolio. The complete dividends for 2014 are

•  Technopolis (TPS1V) paid 15.70€ dividends with 2.13% yield on cost
•  Nokia (NOK1V) paid 33.30€ dividends with 6.75% yield on cost
•  Fortum (FUM1V) paid 67.10€ dividends with 6.67% yield on cost
•  Orava Asuinkiinteistörahastot (OREIT) paid 127.68€ dividends with 8.25% yield on cost
•  Awilco Drilling (AWDR.OL) paid 36.88€ dividends with 8.20% yield on cost

Total amount of dividends in 2014 was 280.66€

Year 2013 dividend amount was 0€ so the increase is huge :)

New purchase : Vanguard Natural Resources

New position started in portfolio - Vanguard Natural Resources (NYSE:VNR)

http://www.vnrllc.com/Vanguard/Vanguard_Natural_Resources,_LLC___NYSE__VNR.html

Publicly traded limited liability company focused on the acquisition and development of mature, long-lived oil and natural gas properties. Primary business objective is to generate stable cash flows allowing us to make monthly cash distributions to unitholders, and over time to increase monthly cash distributions. Properties are located in the Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico, the Big Horn Basin in Wyoming and Montana, the Arkoma Basin in Arkansas and Oklahoma, the Williston Basin in North Dakota and Montana, Mississippi, and South Texas.

VNR pays dividend monthly. Starting yield at 9%

New purchase : TAL International Group

New position started in portfolio - TAL International Group (NYSE:TAL)

 http://www.talinternational.com/

TAL International is one of the world's oldest and largest lessors of intermodal freight containers. Founded in 1963 soon after the development of containerized trade, and today serving virtually every major shipping line in the world. Operates business through 17 offices in 11 countries and approximately 230 third party container depot facilities in 40 countries.

TAL pays dividend quarterly with 3-6-9-12 schedule. Starting yield at 6.82%

Status update : January 2015

Dividends received in January :

• 2.05€ from Realty Income Corp (O)

Last year I did not receive dividends at all in January. Progress :)

Goals

• 5.1% of monthly goal reached
• 1.4% of quarterly goal reached
• 0.3% of yearly goal reached