AUGUST 2022 STOCK BUYS

 I'm overdue updating everyone with the stock purchases I've been making.  So this will be a multi month posting.

My goal is to purchase shares in companies that pay a dividend to create passive income.  Not only pay dividends, but companies that regularly increase these dividends.  And not just pay dividends and increase them regularly, but also have room to increase that dividend on a regular basis.    

If a company is around 60% or under in paying out dividends from their total income, then they have room to grow.   Once the payout ratio gets too high, they are paying all of their income to dividends and not able to grow their company,  Eventually it results in a cut of that dividend.  That's a no go for me.

The result is a steady stream of passive income.  Income just for being alive! 

When I make stock buys I think of it as purchasing income.

Here's what I have done since March of this year...

I did make a few sells.  In September I jettisoned both KD and WBD.   Both were spin offs and neither paid a dividend.   I also lowered my holdings in Williams Sonoma (WSM) and wanted to earn a higher dividend in another company.  I decided to buy lots of Walgreens (WBA) stock.

The result is investing $18,845.80  and increasing my annual dividend income by $604.97.  Six thousand of that 18K was income I added to my portfolio.  I have a goal of adding $1K per month for this.  The rest were earned dividends and the stock sale income.

The purchases resulted in  a 3.21% return yield.   I think that's a wise way to store my income.

Thanks for reading!

AUGUST 2022 DIVIDENDS

Hello everybody.  First of all, I'd like to apologize for not posting for the previous month.  The rest of life took all the time I had to make any posts.  Half the month was spent in Hawaii, and the time around that was spent doing all the work releasing three albums and one single.  

This is hard not to stare at.

Hawaii is our family go to for fun in the sun.  After being there many times, I now know exactly what I want to do and maximize my time there.   It really comes down to which beach I body surf at and what places I eat at.   On the beach side of things, it's in Kailua on Oahu.

For the food side of things, I focus on poke, sushi, and noodles.   Like this!

The rest of the month was taken up by releasing 2 new albums, a Halloween compilation and a new single.  Remixing and mastering the music takes up most of my free hours.  But I am happy with the result.  It's gone from a fun hobby to a side hustle also.  

Here's a link to a pre-release before worldwide release of 9/19   Chickenwizard on Bandcamp

But you are here for the dividend report.  So here goes.....  Killed it.

In August, I received 36 payments for a grand total of $1,609.37.    That's a 19.13% increase over 2021's $1,350.96.    And it's the slow month of the quarter, so I'm happy.   Passive income coming in only to be reinvested in more shares creates gains like this.  It really is an ever growing snowball.

Next month is going to be off the hook, so be ready for that report.  MEanwhile, I promise to do more dividend and vinyl record updates.

Until then,  toodle-do!