Main Street Announces Second Quarter 2016 Regular Monthly Dividends

Main Street Capital Corporation (NYSE: MAIN) ("Main Street") announced that its Board of Directors declared regular monthly cash dividends of $0.18 per share for each of April, May and June 2016. These monthly dividends, which will be payable pursuant to the table below, total $0.54 per share for the second quarter of 2016, which is consistent with the regular monthly dividends declared for the first quarter of 2016 and represents a 3% increase from the regular monthly dividends paid for the second quarter of 2015. Since its October 2007 initial public offering, Main Street has periodically increased the amount of its regular monthly dividends paid per share, and has never reduced its regular monthly dividend amount per share. Including all dividends declared to date, Main Street will have paid $16.96 per share in cumulative cash dividends since its October 2007 initial public offering at $15.00 per share.

Summary of Second Quarter 2016 Regular Monthly Dividends
Declared	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payment Date	Amount Per Share
2/23/2016     2/23/2016 2/23/2016	3/17/2016 4/19/2016 5/18/2016	3/21/2016 4/21/2016 5/20/2016	4/15/2016 5/16/2016 6/15/2016	$0.18 $0.18 $0.18
		Total for Second Quarter 2016:		$0.54

New Purchase: Technopolis

Added 150 shares of Technopolis (TPS1V) at 3.79€ per share. I now hold 645 shares of Technopolis. This purchase increases my 12 month forward dividends by 25.5€ and brings down my average purchase price of TPS1V to 3.98€

Realty Income April dividend increased

SAN DIEGO, March 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Realty Income Corporation (Realty Income, NYSE: O), The Monthly Dividend Company^®, today announced its Board of Directors has declared an increase in the company's common stock monthly cash dividend to $0.199 per share from $0.1985 per share. The dividend is payable on April 15, 2016 to shareholders of record as of April 1, 2016. This is the 85^th dividend increase since Realty Income's listing on the NYSE in 1994. The ex-dividend date for April's dividend is March 30, 2016. The new monthly dividend amount represents an annualized dividend amount of $2.388 per share as compared to the previous annualized dividend amount of $2.382 per share. 

New purchase : Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS)

New position started in portfolio

Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS)

The Bank of Nova Scotia is a Canada-based diversified financial institution. The Bank offered a range of products and services, including retail, commercial, corporate and investment banking to more than 21 million customers in more than 55 countries around the world. The Bank has four business lines: Canadian Banking, International Banking, Scotia Capital and Global Wealth Management. The Canadian Banking segment provided a range of banking and investing services to more than 7.7 million customers across Canada, through a network of 1,190 branches, 3,869 automated banking machine (ABMs), as well as telephone, Internet banking and third-party channels. International Banking includes Scotiabank’s retail and commercial banking operations in more than 55 countries outside Canada.

Bank of Nova Scotia pays dividends with 1-4-7-10 schedule and my starting yield is about 4.61%

Orchid Island Capital March dividend

VERO BEACH, Fla., March 09, 2016 (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 March 2016. The dividend of $0.14 per share will be paid March 31, 2016, to holders of record on March 28, 2016, with an ex-dividend date of March 23, 2016.

New purchase : Telus Corporation

Added 20 shares of Telus Corporation (NYSE:TU) at $29.27 per share. I now hold 37 shares of Telus Corporation.

This purchase increases my yield on cost to 4.12%

Vanguard Natural Resources suspends distributions

On February 18, 2016, our board of directors declared a cash distribution for our common and Class B unitholders attributable to the month of January 2016 of $0.03 per common and Class B unit, or $0.36 on an annualized basis, which will be paid on March 15, 2016 to Vanguard unitholders of record on March 1, 2016.

On February 25, 2016, our board of directors elected to suspend cash distributions to the holders of our common and Class B units and preferred units effective with the February 2016 distribution. All preferred distributions will continue to be accrued and must be paid in full before distributions to common and Class B unitholders can resume.

My projected dividend income from VNR was about 2.51 euro per month. Impact on my 12 months forward dividends is not so big. I hold 92 shares of VNR and do not see a need to sell them yet.

Chimera Investment Corporation Announces Special Common Stock Dividend of $0.50 per Share

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE:CIM) today announced that the Board of Directors declared a special common stock dividend of $0.50 per share. The special dividend is payable on March 31, 2016 to stockholders of record on March 17, 2016. The ex-dividend date is March 15, 2016.

Nice suprise!

Status update : February 2016

Dividends received in February :

Quarterly:

• 19.36€ from AT&T (T)
• 28.93€ from Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP)
• 24.24€ from Golar LNG Partners (GMLP)

Monthly:

• 2.31€ from Realty Income Corp (0)
• 2.46€ from Vanguard Natural Resources (VNR)
• 12.63€ from Orchid Island Capital Inc (ORC)
• 3.23€ from Main Street Capital Corporation (MAIN) 
• 6.79€ from Prospect Capital Corporation (PSEC)

This makes it a total of 99.95€ in dividends in February. Last year I received 18.50€ dividends in February. This is a 440% increase in dividends :)

New purchase : Nokia

Added 60 shares of Nokia (HEL:NOKIA) at 5.61€ per share. Nordnet offered trades for zero cost for specific shares, so I decided to add little Nokia to my portfolio. I now hold 150 shares of Nokia