April 2022 update! ๐ #6
Monthly update on capital gains, dividends, and other life events
This is going to be a monthly thing where I transparently show you losses, gains, trades, dividends and everything in between. I will also be updating any life updates like travels, angel investing in these posts.
For this weeks it is going to be the following:
Overview
๐ค Dividends update
๐ฐ Dividends news
๐ฅน Capital gains
๐ซ Life events
๐ค Dividends
My major focus has been on cashflow, and itโs a vital part of my lifestyle as I like to depend on dividends for my day to day expenses. For the month of April, I was expecting to make around $1.5k but I ended up making $ 1,897.07. Itโs mostly because I am bad at making trackers. I received total of 9 dividend checks from the following AMCR ($ 47.41), NRZ ($ 440.39), NUSI ($ 148.45), QYLD ($ 276.73), NUSI ($ 171.58), STAG ($ 31.39), O ($(89.34), AGNC ($ 135.08), NUSI ($ 300.60), VICI ($ 303.51).
๐ฐ Dividends news
Letโs talk about few dividend news associated with my portfolio. In this section, I am going to talk about what I did with dividends, and if there has been any significant changes on the portfolio.
๐ $AAPL $0.92/share
Apple increased its dividend by 5% to increase it to 23c/share per quarter. It increased my total dividend income by $8.56. Apple has increased its dividend 10 years in a row now.
๐ช $COST$0.90/share
Costco has increased its dividend as well but with a higher percentage. Costco has increased its dividends by 13.9% to $0.90/share from $0.79 per share. It increased my annual dividend income by $20.69 (1.38%). With Appleโs 0.57% increase my total dividend increase with $AAPL and $COST is 1.95%, which is amazing. I can now grow my expense by around 2% without having to give a second thought.
๐ 28 trades
In this month, I made around 28 trades. Most of which was buying $VOO. I bought $VOO 17 times, amounting to around $500. I have been trying to trade $VOO as much as possible. The below is the trades that I have made of $VOO this months verified by Commonstock. If you are not in Commonstock yet, feel free to create an account there and send me โHelloโ. I also reinvested and bought $BST (over $500), $U (over $1,000) and $JEPI (over $100). These will be reflected in next monthsโ dividend income.
๐ฅน Capital gains
Itโs not always sunshine and rainbows, sometimes itโs ๐ฅน. I am down significantly on capital downs this month. I am down around 9.30% ($32k) moving close to $SPY which is down around 9.8%. Almost all of my capital gains is gone now, but I am not terribly worried as the cashflow is increasing (both dividends and outside dividends), and I am getting to buy $U more and more and more. My plan of attack for this month would be DRIP the investments and buy more $U.
๐ซ Life events
I am traveling to Thailand. I just landed yesterday and have got an opportunity to look at the local streets at night, I will post about it soon, so letโs hope for the best.