New purchase : Sampo Group Oyj

Added 5 shares of Sampo Group Oyj (HEL:SAMPO) at 29.63€ per share. I now hold 36 share of Sampo Group Oyj.

SFL Corporation decreases dividend

SFL Corporation (NYSE:SFL) decreases quarterly dividend to $0.25 per share. This is a -28.5% decrease. Not good, SFL was one of my biggest income generators. Damn Corona.

EPR Properties temporarily suspends dividend

Today we are announcing further measures to ensure our liquidity, including the temporary suspension of our monthly cash dividend to common shareholders and a planned suspension of our share repurchase program” commented CEO Greg Silvers, adding “We do not take these steps lightly; however, given the uncertainties that exist, we believed it unwise to burden our future with a higher leveraged balance sheet.”

The dividend will be suspended following the $0.3825 common share dividend payable May 15, 2020. The EPR board has previously declared monthly cash dividends during the first quarter of 2020 totaling $1.1325 per share.

Sampo decreases dividend

Sampo Group (HEL:SAMPO) decreases dividend to 1.50€ per share from previously announced 2.20€ due to Corona Virus situation affecting business. Well..not nice, but this was expected.

New Purchase : Canadian Utilities

Started a new position in portfolio by purchasing 10 shares of Canadian Utilities (TSX:CU) at CAD 33.27 per share.

Canadian Utilities Ltd is a Canada-based company that offers services in the areas of electricity, pipelines & liquids and retail energy. The Company’s segments include Electricity, Pipelines & Liquids and Corporate & Other. The Electricity segment includes ATCO Electric, ATCO Power, Alberta PowerLine and ATCO Power Australia. Together these businesses provide electricity generation, transmission, distribution and related infrastructure solutions in Alberta, Ontario, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Australia and Mexico. The Pipelines & Liquids segment includes ATCO Gas, ATCO Pipelines, ATCO Gas Australia, and ATCO Energy Solutions. These businesses provide integrated natural gas transmission, distribution and storage, industrial water solutions and related infrastructure development throughout Alberta, the Lloydminster area of Saskatchewan, Western Australia and Mexico. Corporate & Other segment includes ATCO Energy, a retail electricity and natural gas business in Alberta.

New Purchase : Dominion Energy

Added 3 shares of Dominion Energy (NYSE:D) at $75.57 per share. I now hold 39 shares of Dominion Energy

Progress update : April 2020

Progress update for April

Quarterly /(Bi-)Annually	2019	2020	Chg %	Monthly	2019	2020	Chg %
Fortum	123.20	(may)		Realty Income Corp	7.60	8.14	+7.11%
Telus Corporation	20.09	20.74	+3.24%	Main Street Capital	15.21	16.20	+6.51%
Chimera Investment	43.81	56.57	+32.14%	Prospect Capital Corporation	11.71	12.29	+4.95%
Nordea	207.00	PP		Chatham Lodging Trust	13.60	-	-100%
Bank of Nova Scotia	16.79	17.23	+2.62%	LTC Properties	12.74	13.11	+2.90%
Telia Company	58.14	45.32	-22.05%	EPR Properties	8.15	12.87	+57.91%
W.P. Carey Inc.	35.90	42.57	+18.58%	AGNC Investment Corp	14.30	13.38	-6.43%
New Residential Investment	67.56	(may)		Vermilion Energy Inc.		4.87
Sampo	88.35	PP
Altria Group	28.83	40.78	+41.45%
Iron Mountain	25.21	46.74	+85.40%
UPM Kymmene	13.00	20.80	+60.00%
Sanoma Oyj		12.50
The Coca-Cola Company	18.94	20.12	+6.23%
Total	830.13	404.23	-51.31%

Status update : April 2020

Dividends received in April :

(Bi)Annually:

•  45.32€ from Telia Company (TELIA)
•  12.50€ from Sanoma Oyj (SAA1V) 
•  20.80€ from UPM Kymmene (UPM1V)

Quarterly:

•  20.74€ from Telus Corporation (TU)
•  56.57€ from Chimera Investment Corp (CIM)
•  17.23€ from Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) 
•  42.57€ from W.P. Carey Inc. (WPC) 
•  46.74€ from Iron Mountain Inc. (IRM)
•  40.78€ from Altria Group (MO)
•  20.12€ from The Coca-Cola Company (KO)

Monthly:

•     8.14€ from Realty Income Corp (0)
•   16.20€ from Main Street Capital Corporation (MAIN)
•   12.29€ from Prospect Capital Corporation (PSEC)  
•   13.11€ from LTC Properties (LTC)
•   12.87€ from EPR Properties (EPR)
•   13.38€ from AGNC Investment Corp (AGNC)
•     4.87€ from Vermilion Energy Inc. (VET.TO)

This makes it a total of  404.23€ in dividends in April. Last year I received 830.13€ dividends in April. This is a -51.31% decrease in dividends. Decrease is due to Fortum, Stora Enso and Nordea postponing dividend payments. NRZ made a big dividend cut which affected also. Damn Corona.