AT&T dividend for Q3 2015

AT&T (NYSE:T) announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, September 25th, Market Beat.com reports. Shareholders of record on Friday, October 9th will be given a dividend of 0.47 per share on Monday, November 2nd. This represents a $1.88 annualized dividend and a yield of 5.82%.

New purchase : Nordea Bank

New position started in portfolio Nordea Bank (NDA1V.HE).

Nordea Bank AB (the Bank) is a Sweden-based bank engaged in corporate merchant banking, as well as retail banking and private banking. The Bank reports three main business areas, namely Retail Banking, Wholesale Banking and Wealth Management. Retail Banking offers a range of banking products and services to household and corporate customers in the Nordic markets, as well as in Poland and the Baltic countries. Wholesale Banking provides banking and other financial solutions to large Nordic and international corporate, institutional and public companies. Wealth Management provides investment, savings and risk management products, manages customers’ assets and advises individuals, as well as institutional investors on their financial situation. In April 2014, the Company sold Nordea Polish bank, life and finance businesses to PKO Bank Polski. In July 2014, it completed divestment of its shares in Nets Holding

New purchase : Chimera Investment Corporation

Added 40 shares of Chimera Investment Corporation (CIM) at a price $14.39 per share. I now hold 78 shares of CIM. Chimera Investment Corporation pays dividend quarterly with 1-4-7-10 schedule. This purchase raises my yield on cost to 12.41%.

Chimera Investment Corporation is a specialty finance company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, invests in residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), residential mortgage loans, commercial mortgage loans, real estate-related securities and various other asset classes. The Company’s objective is to provide attractive risk-adjusted returns to investors over the long-term, primarily through dividends and secondarily through capital appreciation. The Company is externally managed by Fixed Income Discount Advisory Company.

Orchid Island Capital Inc September dividend

VERO BEACH, Fla., Sept. 14, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Orchid Island Capital, Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE:ORC) announced today that the Board of Directors declared a monthly cash dividend for the month of September 2015. The dividend of $0.14 per share will be paid September 30, 2015, to holders of record on September 25, 2015, with an ex-dividend date of September 23, 2015.

Chimera Investment Corp Q3 dividend

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Board of Directors of Chimera today announced the declaration of its third quarter 2015 cash dividend of $0.48 per common share. This dividend is payable October 30, 2015, to common stockholders of record on September 30, 2015. The ex-dividend date is September 28, 2015.

The Board of Directors also announced that it expects to maintain a minimum quarterly dividend of $0.48 for the fourth quarter of 2015.

The Company distributes dividends based on its current estimate of taxable earnings per common share, not GAAP earnings. Taxable and GAAP earnings will typically differ due to items such as differences in premium amortization, accretion of discounts, unrealized and realized gains and losses, and credit loss recognition. Portions of the dividend may be ordinary income, capital gains or a return of capital.

F.A.S.T. Graphs : AT & T (T)

F.A.S.T. Graphs : The Coca Cola Company (KO)

Realty Income Corp October Dividend

Realty Income Corp (NYSE:O) declared a oct 15 dividend on Wednesday, September 9th, AnalystRatings.NET reports. Investors of record on Thursday, October 1st will be given a dividend of 0.1905 per share on Thursday, October 15th. This is a small increase over previous months dividend of $0.19

Status update : August 2015

Dividends received in August :

• 2.23€ from Realty Income Corp (0)
• 4.46€ from Vanguard Natural Resources (VNR)
• 9.00€ from AT&T (T)
• 12.80€ from Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP)
• 11.48€ from Golar LNG Partners (GMLP)
• 12.14€ from Orchid Island Capital Inc (ORC)

This makes it a total of 52.11€ in dividends in August. Last year I did not receive dividends in August. Huge progress :)

Goals

• 130.3% of monthly goal reached
• 64.9% of quarterly goal reached
• 92.6% of yearly goal reached