New purchase : Flowers Foods Inc.

Added 30 shares of Flowers Foods Inc. (NYSE:FLO) at $23.87 per share. I now hold 179 shares of Flowers Foods Inc.

Dividend increase #33 of 2023 : Altria Group Inc.

Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE: MO) today announced that our Board of Directors voted to increase our regular quarterly dividend by 4.3% to $0.98 per share versus the previous rate of $0.94 per share. The quarterly dividend is payable on October 10, 2023 to shareholders of record as of September 15, 2023. The ex-dividend date is September 14, 2023.

The new annualized dividend rate is $3.92 per share, representing a dividend yield of 9.1% based on our closing stock price of $43.12 on August 23, 2023.

Today’s dividend increase is consistent with our new progressive dividend goal that we established at our 2023 Investor Day that targets mid-single digits dividend per share growth annually. This increase marks the 58^th dividend increase in the past 54 years. 

 

 

New purchase : Chimera Investment Corporation

Purchased 175 shares of Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE:CIM) at $5.51 per share. Restarted CIM position.

New sale : Chimera Investment Corporation

Sold all my shares (150) in Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE:CIM) at $5.64 per share.

 

New sale and purchase : VF Corporation

Sold all my shares (45) of VF Corporation (NYSE:VFC) on 17th of Aug at $20.42 per share. VF Corporation price kept sinking little more and I decided to purchase 50 shares of VF Corporation back on 18th of Aug at $20.01

Summary Q2 / 2023

 During Q2 / 2023 this portfolio collected following dividends

• Apr: 1039.11€   (2022: 1122.68€ 2021: 491.42€  2020: 404.23€)
• May:  633.53€   (2022: 694.35€ 2021: 600.54€  2020: 447.62€) 
• Jun:   643.47€   (2022: 514.35€ 2021: 325.88€  2020: 398.54€)

Total of  2304.86€  (2022: 2331.38€ 2021: 1417.84€  2020: 1244.39€)

Quarterly target was 1800€ which was clearly passed

 

New purchase : Gladstone Capital Corporation

Added 85 shares of Gladstone Capital Corporation (NYSE:GLAD) at $11.01 per share. I now hold 323 shares of Gladstone Capital Corporation

Dividend increase #32 of 2023 : Iron Mountain Inc.

The Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), a global leader in innovative storage, data center infrastructure, asset lifecycle management and information management services, declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.65 per share for the third quarter, payable on October 5, 2023 to shareholders of record on September 15, 2023.

“Consistent with our long term commentary that we would increase the dividend as our payout ratio of Adjusted Funds from Operations settled into the low to mid 60s as a percentage, we are pleased to announce a 5% increase to our dividend.” said William L. Meaney, President and Chief Executive Officer. “We remain committed to our disciplined approach to capital allocation, and our ability to achieve our growth ambitions with Project Matterhorn whilst raising our dividend.” 

 

Dividend increase #31 of 2023 : Main Street Capital

Main Street Capital Corporation (NYSE: MAIN) ("Main Street") is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors declared regular monthly cash dividends of $0.235 per share for each of October, November and December 2023.  These monthly dividends total $0.705 per share for the fourth quarter of 2023 and represent a 2.2% increase from the regular monthly dividends declared for the third quarter of 2023 and a 6.8% increase from the regular monthly dividends paid in the fourth quarter of 2022. 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.

 

Status update : July 2023

 Dividends received in July

- 36.82 from Telus Corporation
- 41.14 from Canadian Natural_Resources
- 56.21 from Iron Mountain
- 22.35 from Coca-Cola 
- 22.34 from AGNC Investment
- 62.46 from Altria Group
- 45.67 from Trinity Capital
- 13.36 from Algonquin Power_and_Utils
- 55.13 from W.P. Carey
- 15.46 from Realty Income
- 9.03 from EPR Properties
- 19.65 from Main Street
- 4.37 from Vermilion Energy
- 14.55 from Prospect Capital
- 28.41 from Bank_of_Nova_Scotia 
- 12.98 from LTC Properties
- 12.08 from Orchid Island
- 43.55 from Annaly_Capital_Management 
- 34.75 from Rithm Capital
- 24.60 from Chimera Investment
- 22.38 from Gladstone Investment_Corp
- 11.49 from Gladstone Commercial_Corp
- 17.77 from Gladstone Capital_Corp

This makes a total of 626.55 in dividends received from 23 companies. Previous year I received 670.27 in July. This is a -6.52% change in dividends

Progress report : July 2023

Quote	2020	2021	2022	2023	1y chg	2y chg	3y chg
Telus Corporation	20.88	32.37	38.11	36.82	-3.38%	13.75%	76.34%
Canadian Natural_Resources	-	5.76	29.41	41.14	39.88%	614.2%
Iron Mountain	51.42	51.52	59.35	56.21	-5.29%	9.10%	9.32%
Coca-Cola	19.27	18.82	22.35	22.35	0.00%	18.76%	15.98%
AGNC Investment	9.66	15.82	24.60	22.34	-9.19%	41.21%	131.2%
Altria Group	44.62	49.26	64.57	62.46	-3.27%	26.80%	39.98%
Trinity Capital	-	-	16.99	50.41	196.7%
Algonquin Power_and_Utils	-	6.74	24.38	13.36	-45.2%	98.22%
W.P. Carey	44.57	51.21	61.18	55.13	-9.89%	7.65%	23.69%
Realty Income	7.76	10.57	12.93	15.46	19.57%	46.26%	99.23%
Pembina Pipeline	-	6.17	14.32	-	-100.%
EPR Properties	-	-	10.13	9.03	-10.8%
Main Street	15.46	14.94	18.23	19.65	7.79%	31.53%	27.10%
STORE Capital_Corp	-	13.95	27.61	-	-100.%
Vermilion Energy	-	-	2.96	4.37	47.64%
Prospect Capital	11.38	11.20	15.86	14.55	-8.26%	29.91%	27.86%
Bank_of_Nova_Scotia	16.56	17.46	30.55	28.41	-7.00%	62.71%	71.56%
LTC Properties	12.12	11.99	13.93	12.98	-6.82%	8.26%	7.10%
Orchid Island	-	23.04	18.59	12.08	-35.0%	-47.5%
Annaly_Capital_Management	-	16.78	63.51	43.55	-31.4%	159.5%
Rithm Capital	12.96	25.64	37.30	34.75	-6.84%	35.53%	168.1%
Chimera Investment	31.38	34.16	48.35	24.60	-49.1%	-27.9%	-21.6%
Gladstone Investment_Corp	-	-	15.06	22.38	48.61%
Gladstone Commercial_Corp	-	-	-	11.49
Gladstone Capital_Corp	-	-	-	17.77
Total	298.06	417.50	670.27	631.29	-5.82%	51.21%	111.8%