Friday, November 25, 2016

New purchase : Nordea Bank

Added 25 shares of Nordea Bank at 9.96€ per share. I now hold 195 shares of Nordea Bank. This is a small increase to my 12 month forward dividends, but hey..a small increase is better than no increase



Thursday, November 17, 2016

Awilco Drilling dividend increase Q3 / 2016

Awilco Drilling (AWDR.OL) announced dividend of $0.20 per share for Q3. This is an 100% increase to the previous quarters dividend of $0.10. A small good sign with this company.

Monday, November 14, 2016

Realty Income Corp december dividend

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Realty Income Corporation (Realty Income, NYSE: O), The Monthly Dividend Company®, today announced that its Board of Directors has declared the 557th consecutive common stock monthly dividend. The dividend amount of $0.202 per share, representing an annualized amount of $2.424 per share, is payable on December 15, 2016 to shareholders of record as of December 1, 2016. The ex-dividend date for December's dividend is November 29, 2016.

Friday, November 11, 2016

Triton International Limited dividend Q4 / 2016

HAMILTON, Bermuda--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 2016-- Triton International Limited (NYSE:TRTN), ("Triton") today reported results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2016. On July 12, 2016 Triton Container International Limited ("TCIL") and TAL International Group, Inc. ("TAL") completed their previously announced strategic combination and became wholly-owned subsidiaries of Triton.  

Triton announced a quarterly dividend of $0.45 per share payable on December 22, 2016 to shareholders of record as of December 2, 2016.

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Prospect Capital declares 100th, 101st and 102nd dividend

NEW YORK, Nov. 08, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Prospect Capital Corporation (NASDAQ:PSEC) (“Prospect”) announced today that Prospect has declared monthly cash distributions to shareholders in the following amounts and with the following record and payment dates:
  • 8.333 cents per share for November 2016 (record date of November 30, 2016 and payment date of December 22, 2016);
  • 8.333 cents per share for December 2016 (record date of December 30, 2016 and payment date of January 19, 2017); and
  • 8.333 cents per share for January 2017 (record date of January 31, 2017 and payment date of February 16, 2017).
These distributions mark Prospect’s 100th, 101st and 102nd consecutive cash distributions to shareholders. Prospect’s closing stock price of $7.52 as of November 7, 2016 delivers to shareholders a current dividend yield of 13.3%.

Orchid Island Capital November dividend

VERO BEACH, Fla., Nov. 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 November 2016. The dividend of $0.14 per share will be paid December 9, 2016, to holders of record on November 30, 2016, with an ex-dividend date of November 28, 2016.

New purchase : The Coca-Cola Company

Added 6 shares of The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) at $42.42 using dividends that were generated during the last couple of months. My broker had a special offer of no transaction fee, so it was viable to add a small amount of shares this time

I now hold 53 shares of The Coca-Cola Company

Monday, November 7, 2016

Telus dividend increase

Yesterday the Board of Directors of TELUS Corporation announced a quarterly dividend increase of from CA$ 0.46 to CA$ 0.48 per share that’s payable January 3, 2017 to holders of record December 9, 2016. This represents a 9.09% increase year-over-year and 4.35% increase to the last quarter dividend. This was a twelfth dividend increase since TELUS announcing their multi-year dividend growth program in May 2011 With current price CA$ 42.40 (Yesterday's close), this raise brings their dividend yield to 4.53%.

Since I own 37 shares of Telus, this increases my 12 month forward dividends by $2.36

Thursday, November 3, 2016

Main Street Capital Corp dividend Q1 - 2017

Main Street Capital Corporation (NYSE: MAIN) ("Main Street") is pleased to announce that its
Board of Directors declared regular monthly cash dividends of $0.185 per share for each of January, February and March 2017.  These monthly dividends, which will be payable pursuant to the table below, total $0.555 per share for the first quarter of 2017, which is consistent with the regular monthly dividends declared for the fourth quarter of 2016 and represents a 3% increase from the regular monthly dividends paid for the first quarter of 2016.  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 $19.16 per share in cumulative cash dividends since its October 2007 initial public offering at $15.00 per share.

Summary of First Quarter 2017 Regular Monthly Dividends

Declared
Ex-Dividend Date
Record Date
Payment Date
Amount Per Share
11/2/2016
11/2/2016
11/2/2016
12/28/2016
  1/18/2017
  2/17/2017
12/30/2016
  1/20/2017
  2/22/2017
  1/13/2017
  2/15/2017
  3/15/2017
$0.185
$0.185
$0.185


Total for First Quarter 2017:
$0.555

Emerson Electric dividend increase

Emerson Eletric increased dividend from $0.475 to $0.48. A small increase but hey..increase is an increase :)  Since I own only 15 shares of EMR this increase does not raise my 12 month forward dividends too much

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

New purchase : Telia Company

Added 35 shares of Telia Company at 3.624€ per share. I now hold 345 shares of Telia Company.

Status update : October 2016

Dividends received in October :

Bi-Annually:
  •  47.70€ from Teliacompany (TELIA1)
Quarterly:
  •  11.50€ from Telus Corporation (TU)
  •  14.73€ from Coca-Cola Company (KO)
  •  34.28€ from Chimera Investment Corp (CIM)
  •  14.67€ from Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) 
  •  11.44€ from W.P. Carey Inc. (WPC)
Monthly:
  •     2.38€ from Realty Income Corp (0)
  •   12.49€ from Orchid Island Capital Inc (ORC) 
  •   10.10€ from Main Street Capital Corporation (MAIN)
  •   16.83€ from Prospect Capital Corporation (PSEC) 

This makes it a total of 176.12€ in dividends in October. Last year I received 61.92€ dividends in October. This is a 184% increase in dividends. Excellent

Chimera Investment Corp dividend increase

The Board of Directors of Chimera announced the declaration of its fourth quarter cash dividend of $0.50 per common share. The dividend is payable January 27, 2017, to common stockholders of record on December 30, 2016. The ex-dividend date is December 28, 2016.

Since I own 78 shares of CIM, this will increase my 12 month forward dividends by $6.24  (5.69€ at todays rate). Always nice to get a suprise increase