Ship Finance International Limited decreases dividend

Ship Finance Limited (SFL) declared second quarter dividend of $0.35 per share, the Company's 54^th consecutive quarterly dividend. This is a disapointting decrease from previous dividend which was $0.45 per share.

Bank of Nova Scotia increases dividend

Today the Board of Directors of Scotiabank announced a quarterly dividend increase of from CA$ 0.76 to CA$ 0.79 per share that’s payable October 27, 2017 to holders of record October 03, 2017. This represents a 3.95 % increase from prior dividend. It should be noted that this is the second dividend increase in the current calendar year as it was also raises by CA$ 0.02 in February 2017. So the increase in this calendar year is CA$ 0.05 or 6.76% from the last dividend paid in October 2016. With current price CA$ 77.20 (yesterday's close), this raise brings their dividend yield to 4.09 %.

Prospect Capital decreases dividend

Prospect is declaring distributions as follows:

• $0.06 per share for September 2017 to September 29, 2017 record holders with October 19, 2017 payment date; and
• $0.06 per share for October 2017 to October 31, 2017 record holders with November 22, 2017 payment date.

These distributions mark Prospect’s 110th and 111th consecutive cash distributions to shareholders.

Based on the declarations above, Prospect’s closing stock price of $7.13 at August 25, 2017 delivers to shareholders a 10.1% dividend yield.

This is a 28% decrease, disappointing but it was expected

Marine Harvest ASA increases dividend

Marine Harvest ASA (MHG.OL) declared dividend NOK 3.20 for Q3. Dividend for previous quarter was NOK 3.00 so this is a 6.67% increase in quarterly dividend.

Since I own only 20 shares of MHG.OL this increases my 12 month forward dividends by so little that I do not even want to count it :) Well, MHG.OL position was just started and will be increased during coming months/years

Royal Bank of Canada dividend increased

Today the Board of Directors of Royal Bank of Canada announced a quarterly dividend increase of from CA$ 0.87 to CA$ 0.91 per share that’s payable November 24, 2017 to holders of record October 26, 2017. This represents a 9.64 % increase over the fourth quarter 2016 dividend of CA$ 0.83 per share and a 4.60 % increase over for the second quarter 2017 of CA$ 0.87 per share. With current price CA$ 92.01 (yesterday's close), this raise brings their dividend yield to 3.96%.

New purchase : Marine Harvest ASA

New position started in portfolio. Marine Harvest ASA (MHG.OL). Purchased 20 shares of MHG.OL for 151.00 NOK per share.

Marine Harvest ASA is a Norway-based company engaged in the production and marketing of seafood. The Company operates within three segments, namely Feed, Farming, and Sales and Marketing. The Feed segment is responsible for production of fish feed. The Farming segment manages the Company's farming activities in Norway, Scotland, Canada, Chile, Ireland and the Faroe Islands. The Sales segment comprises the global sales organization.

MHG.OL pays dividend quarterly with 3-6-9-11 schedule and my starting yield on cost is around 7.6%

Awilco Drilling dividend for Q2 / 2017

Awilco Drilling declares dividend of $0.20 per share for Q2. Dividend ex-date is 22.august and paydate around 22. september 2017. Dividend remains unchanged from Q1 which is good.

Realty Income September dividend

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Realty Income Corporation (Realty Income, NYSE: O), The Monthly Dividend Company^®, today announced that its Board of Directors has declared the 566^th consecutive common stock monthly dividend. The dividend amount of $0.2115 per share, representing an annualized amount of $2.538 per share, is payable on September 15, 2017 to shareholders of record as of September 1, 2017. The ex-dividend date for September's dividend is August 30, 2017.

Orchid Island August dividend

VERO BEACH, Fla., Aug. 09, 2017 (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 August 2017. The dividend of $0.14 per share will be paid September 8, 2017, to holders of record on August 31, 2017, with an ex-dividend date of August 29, 2017.

LTC dividend for Q3 / 2017

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- LTC Properties, Inc. (NYSE:LTC) announced today that it had declared a monthly cash dividend on its common stock for the third quarter of 2017.
The Company declared a monthly cash dividend of $0.19 per common share per month for the months of July, August and September 2017, payable on July 31, August 31 and September 29, 2017, respectively, to stockholders of record on July 21, August 23 and September 21, 2017, respectively.

New Purchase : LTC Properties

Added 25 shares of LTC Properties (LTC) at $50.29 per share. I now hold 75 shares of LTC. This purchase increases my 12 month forward dividends by $57 with current payout $0.19 per share.

Triton International dividend for Q3

Triton reported Net income attributable to shareholders of $45.7 million and Income before income taxes of $59.5 million for the second quarter of 2017

Triton announced a quarterly dividend of $0.45 per share payable on September 22, 2017 to shareholders of record as of September 1, 2017.

New purchase : Stora Enso

Added 15 shares of Stora Enso (HEL:STERV) at 11.39€ per share. I now hold 160 shares of Stora Enso

Progress update : July 2017

Progress update for July

Quote	2016	2017	Change %
Nokia (paid in June this year)	195.00	(127.50)	-23.4%
Realty Income Corp	2.35	5.17	+120%
The Coca-Cola Company	11.32	17.26	+52.4%
Telus Corporation	11.84	12.38	+4.6%
Orchid Island	12.29	12.04	-2.0%
Chimera Investment Corp	33.53	33.25	-0.8%
Main Street Capital	9.77	9.70	-0.7%
Prospect Capital Corporation	16.63	15.74	-4.7%
Bank of Nova Scotia	14.33	15.04	+4.9%
W.P. Carey Inc.	-	21.42
Chatham Lodging Trust	-	11.51
LTC Properties	-	8.04
8point3 Energy Partners LP	-	11.54
New Residential Investment Corp	-	31.40
Total	307.06	204.49	-33.4%

Status update : July 2017

Dividends received in July :

Quarterly:

•  12.38€ from Telus Corporation (TU)
•  33.25€ from Chimera Investment Corp (CIM)
•  15.04€ from Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) 
•  21.42€ from W.P. Carey Inc. (WPC) 
•  11.54€ from 8point3 Energy Partners LP (CAFD)
•  17.26€ from The Coca-Cola Company (KO)
•  31.40€ from New Residential Investment Corp (NRZ)

Monthly:

•     5.17€ from Realty Income Corp (0)
•   12.04€ from Orchid Island Capital Inc (ORC) 
•     9.70€ from Main Street Capital Corporation (MAIN)
•   15.74€ from Prospect Capital Corporation (PSEC)  
•   11.51€ from Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT)
•     8.04€ from LTC Properties (LTC)

This makes it a total of 204.49€ in dividends in July. Last year I received 307.06€ dividends in July. This is a -33% decrease in dividends. Decrease was due to Nokia paying dividends in June this year.

Main Street Capital Corporation dividend increase

Main Street Capital Corporation (MAIN) ("Main Street") is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors declared regular monthly cash dividends of $0.19 per share for each of October, November and December 2017.  These monthly dividends, which will be payable pursuant to the table below, total $0.57 per share for the fourth quarter of 2017 and represent a 3% increase from both the regular monthly dividends paid for the fourth quarter of 2016 and the regular monthly dividends declared for the third quarter of 2017. 

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 $21.115 per share in cumulative cash dividends since its October 2007 initial public offering at $15.00 per share.

Alliance Resource Partners dividend increase

The board of directors of ARLP’s managing general partner
approved a cash distribution to unitholders for the quarter ended June 30, 2017 (the "2017 Quarter") of $0.50 per unit (an annualized rate of $2.00 per unit), payable on August 14, 2017 to all ARLP unitholders of record as of close of trading on August 7, 2017.

The announced distribution reflects an increase of 14.3% compared to the distributions declared for the quarters ended June 30, 2016 (the "2016 Quarter") and March 31, 2017 (the "Sequential Quarter").