Realty Income Corporation May dividend

Realty Income Corporation (Realty Income, NYSE: O), The Monthly Dividend Company^®, today announced that its Board of Directors has declared the 550^th consecutive common stock monthly dividend. The dividend amount of $0.199 per share, representing an annualized amount of $2.388 per share, is payable on May 16, 2016 to shareholders of record as of May 2, 2016.

New Purchase : Royal Bank of Canada

Started new position to portfolio.

Royal Bank of Canada

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is a diversified financial services company. The Company provides personal and commercial banking, wealth management services, insurance, investor services and capital markets products and services on a global basis

Royal Bank of Canada pays dividend quartely with 2-5-8-11 schedule. My starting yield is at 4.01%

Recent sell : Vanguard Natural Resources

Sold all Vanguard Natural Resources (VNR) shares  (92 shares at $1.45 per share). Vanguard suspended dividend and share price has been dropping rapidly. I decided to sell all my shares and get some tax deductions for next year. This sell does not drop my 12 month forward dividends at all as VNR had suspended distributions. Sale profit : -575.98€ (to be used in tax deductions for dividends)

Status update : March 2016

Dividends received in March :

Annually:

• 44.80€ from Nordea (NDA1V)

Quarterly:

• 19.72€ from Awilco Drilling (AWDR)
•  5.94€ from Orava Residents (OREIT)
• 37.95€ from TAL International (TAL) 
•  5.90€ from Southern Company (SO)

Monthly:

• 2.33€ from Realty Income Corp (0)
• 2.49€ from Vanguard Natural Resources (VNR)
• 12.05€ from Orchid Island Capital Inc (ORC)
• 3.25€ from Main Street Capital Corporation (MAIN) 
• 6.72€ from Prospect Capital Corporation (PSEC)

Special:

• 34.25€ from Chimera Investment Corporation (CIM)

This makes it a total of 175.40€ in dividends in March. Last year I received 113.25€ dividends in March. This is a 53% increase in dividends

New purchase: Prospect Capital Corporation

Added 130 shares of Prospect Capital Corporation (NYSE:PSEC) at $7.17 per share. I now hold 220 shares of PSEC. This purchase increases my 12 months forward dividends by $124.80

New purchase: Main Street Capital Corporation

Added 40 shares of Main Street Capital Corporation (NYSE:MAIN) at $31.20 per share. I now hold 60 shares of MAIN. This purchase increases my 12 month forward dividends by $86.20

New purchase: TeliaSonera

New position started in portfolio

TeliaSonera

TeliaSonera  (TLS1V.HE) provides network access and telecommunication services. TeliaSonera operates through four segments: region Sweden, region Europe, region Eurasia and Other operations. Region Sweden consists of TeliaSonera's mobile, broadband and fixed-line operations in Sweden. Region Europe consists of TeliaSonera's mobile, broadband and fixed-line operations in Finland, Norway, Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Spain. Region Eurasia includes TeliaSonera's mobile operations in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Georgia, Moldova and Nepal. Other operations include the Company's international carrier operations, customer financing and dunning operations, TeliaSonera Holding, TeliaSonera's shareholding in the associates Russian MegaFon and Turkish Turkcell, as well as Group functions. The Company's brands include Telia, Halebop, Sonera, TeleFinland, NetCom, Chess, Telia, Call me, DLG Tele, Omnitel, Ezys, TEO, LMT Okarte, Amigo, EMT, Diil and Elion.

TeliaSonera pays dividend twice a year, in april and in october. My starting yield is at 7.01%