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Dividend Income Update For October 2019

November 12, 2019 by Jason Fieber 13 Comments

Ahh, dividends.

Even just hearing that word conjures up all kinds of warm and fuzzy feelings for me.

I remember playing the board game Monopoly as a kid. My favorite Chance card was the one where Mr. Monopoly (or Rich Uncle Pennybags) collected his bank dividend of $50.

I thought that was so neat. Collecting money for nothing. Growing up as poor as I did, it seemed like a pipe dream as a child.

Well, it’s no pipe dream.

But it is a dream; it’s a dream of a lifestyle that almost anyone can live, as I’ve proven out over the years.

Mr. Monopoly sits on my shelf at home, reminding me every day of just how far I’ve come…

How far?

I went from below broke in early 2010 to financially independent in early 2016.

And I did so with no particular advantage(s) over anyone else. I grew up in a crack house in Detroit. My parents abandoned me. I have no college degree. I worked at a car dealership making ~$50,000 per year – until I didn’t.

Those six years of my life I set aside to aggressively save and intelligently invest my capital resulted in financial freedom at 33 years old – which is how I became Mr. Free At 33.

That financial freedom is underpinned by the five-figure passive dividend income my FIRE Fund generates on my behalf.

I aptly named my portfolio the FIRE Fund because it allowed me to become financially independent and retire early (FIRE).

I built this portfolio on the tenets of dividend growth investing, whereby I allocate my capital almost exclusively toward high-quality stocks that have lengthy track records of paying rising dividends year after year.

These are world-class businesses. Because of that, they tend to rake in more profit year in and year out.

Well, shareholders are ultimately the collective owners of any publicly-traded company. Growing dividends are our rightful share of that growing profit.

The growing dividends that are sent my way by the businesses I own a slice of are enough to cover my essential expenses in life. Better yet, these dividends are growing faster than my expenses.

That means I don’t need a job. Haven’t had one since turning 32 years old. And I have no plans to get one.

If you’re interested in using dividend growth investing to achieve FIRE for yourself, check out my two best-selling books on this: The Dividend Mantra Way and 5 Steps To Retire In 5 Years (also available in paperback).

What you’ll soon see is the tangible manifestation of all of these concepts I write about.

The table below lists every dividend I received (as well as each respective company that paid it) from the preceding month.

This is cash money, folks. Every time a dividend comes in, that’s real-life money I can use to do whatever I want with. Now we all know why Mr. Monopoly loved to kick back with a cigar, like a boss.

When you’re collecting a dividend a day, you are a boss!

Without further ado…

Albemarle Corporation (ALB)$12.86
The Coca-Cola Co. (KO)$56.00
Broadcom Inc. (AVGO)$10.60
Genuine Parts Company (GPC)$3.81
PPL Corp. (PPL)$16.50
Kimberly-Clark Corp. (KMB)$20.60
Iron Mountain Inc. (IRM)$12.22
South Jersey Industries Inc. (SJI)$14.38
Eastman Chemical Company (EMN)$9.30
Diageo PLC (DEO)$52.22
Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW)$37.45
Altria Group Inc. (MO)$84.00
Omnicom Group Inc. (OMC)$9.75
Chubb Ltd. (CB)$11.25
Philip Morris International Inc. (PM)$117.00
Ventas, Inc. (VTR)$47.55
EPR Properties (EPR)$15.01
Cardinal Health Inc. (CAH)$16.84
Leggett & Platt, Inc. (LEG)$6.00
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB)$24.70
Stag Industrial Inc. (STAG)$13.11
STORE Capital Corp. (STOR)$15.75
W.P. Carey Inc. (WPC)$82.88
Realty Income Corp. (O)$21.57
Main Street Capital Corporation (MAIN)$24.60
Medtronic PLC (MDT)$19.98
Bank OZK (OZK)$7.50
Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO)$19.25
Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT)$15.95
Armanino Foods of Dinstinction Inc. (AMNF)$33.75
Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS)$54.99
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM)$5.40
Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD)$33.72
Total:$926.49

Just for reference, a great resource for tracking your portfolio and everything related to it is Personal Capital.

There’s not much I can say that I haven’t said before.

As always, I’m filled with an immense sense of pride and thankfulness.

I worked extremely hard to get to this spot in life. Going from abject poverty in Detroit to financially independent and living in Thailand – that’s not easy. If you’re curious about my old ‘hood, the first six minutes of this video shows you exactly where I grew up.

But I’m far from my humble beginnings, both in literal and figurative terms. I’m very proud of that.

That said, a lot of dominoes fell just right for me. I’ve been lucky. And I’m so thankful for every opportunity that came my way.

The biggest opportunity of them all is, of course, having access to the economic engine that is US capitalism. It’s an amazing machine that too few Americans appreciate and fully take advantage of. Instead, many of these same Americans bemoan the fact that others have taken advantage of it.

That’s a shame, but I do my best to spread the word that this engine is available for almost anyone. You don’t need a special key to turn it on. Capitalism doesn’t require a special handshake.

After so many years of ignoring capitalism and struggling with poverty in my own life, I finally decided to let capitalism go to work for me. And that decision changed my life forever.

I now have a compounding dividend income snowball rolling down the hill – at an ever-larger size and an ever-faster speed.

Let’s see this snowball in action.

This month’s dividend income is 10.9% higher than the $835.60 I collected in October 2018. The total amount of dividend income I’ve collected in 2019 is now up to $11,438.46. I’ve realized 10.5% YOY growth compared to the $10,349.37 in dividend income I collected through October 2018.

I couldn’t be more proud of or pleased with the Fund and the life situation I find myself in.

Indeed, they’re inextricably linked.

I’m only able to live my dream early retirement life abroad because of the Fund and the growing passive dividend income it generates for me. I’m incredibly grateful for this.

The crazy thing is, I stopped aggressively investing more than three years ago. I achieved FIRE in March 2016 at the age of 33, which meant I achieved my primary financial goal in life.

Since then, I’ve decided to allocate the majority of my resources toward other areas of my life. This dividend income growth is mostly the result of the snowball rolling all by itself. If that’s not proof of the power of dividend growth investing, I don’t know what is.

Living off of dividends is the dream. And it’s a dream that can easily be a reality.

But getting started is critical. Life is too short to let these early retirement dreams pass you by.

I can certainly say I feel like I’m living inside of a dream. I wake up every day, overwhelmed with excitement to live exactly as I wish to. For a college dropout who grew up in a crack house in Detroit, it almost seems to good to be true at times.

This year has been phenomenal for me. I hope all of you are having a great year thus far, too!

Full disclosure: I’m long all aforementioned stocks.

How was your month? How much dividend income did you collect? Is your dividend income (and the growth of it) living up to expectations?

Thanks for reading.

Image courtesy of: imgflip and WarnerMedia.

P.S. If you’d also like to collect five-figure dividend income and reach FIRE, check out some phenomenal tools and services that personally helped me become financially independent in my early 30s!

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About Jason Fieber

Jason Fieber became financially free at 33 years old by using dividend growth investing to his advantage. Jason has authored two best-selling books: The Dividend Mantra Way and 5 Steps To Retire In 5 Years (also available in paperback).

 

Jason recommends Personal Capital for portfolio management, Mint for budgeting, Schwab for the brokerage account, and Morningstar, Daily Trade Alert, and Motley Fool for stock ideas. This blog is hosted by Bluehost. If you'd like to start your own blog, Jason offers free coaching when you use our Bluehost affiliate link.

 

Jason's writing and/or story has been featured across international media like USA Today, Business Insider, and CNBC.

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Comments

  1. Chickenwizard's DivBlog says

    November 12, 2019 at 1:26 pm

    Great job Jason. Keep it up

    Reply
    • Jason Fieber says

      November 13, 2019 at 12:41 am

      Chickenwizard,

      Thanks a lot!

      Let’s keep our snowballs rolling. 🙂

      Cheers.

      Reply
  2. My Dividend Dynasty says

    November 12, 2019 at 4:50 pm

    Nice $900+ month! Ain’t it great to be paid by many of the worlds greatest companies? And all while doing nothing! Dividends are so sweet. Keep up the great work! 🙂

    Reply
    • Jason Fieber says

      November 13, 2019 at 12:42 am

      MDD,

      It’s very, very nice. Life could be much worse. 🙂

      Hope you had a great October, too.

      Best wishes.

      Reply
  3. GentlemansFamilyFinances says

    November 12, 2019 at 5:01 pm

    just stumbled across this blog.
    Really impressed with what you’ve done.
    I am aiming to build up a dividend portfolio of ETFs to cover our expenses – but still some way to go still!

    Thanks

    Reply
    • Jason Fieber says

      November 13, 2019 at 12:49 am

      GFF,

      Glad you found the blog. Hope you continue to stop by and enjoy the content! 🙂

      Best regards.

      Reply
  4. Dividend Diplomats says

    November 12, 2019 at 10:12 pm

    Jason –

    Solid month and now that the year is almost finished, it’s no surprise your growth rate for this month is similar to your entire YTD growth rate.

    That is one heck of an AMNF position to produce that type of dividend, that’s for sure! Excited to keep reading the growth your portfolio is going through, always.

    -Lanny

    Reply
    • Jason Fieber says

      November 13, 2019 at 12:54 am

      Lanny,

      Yeah, Armanino continues to operate at a pretty high level. And those big and growing dividends keep getting pumped out. What a gem of a small business.

      Looking forward to seeing all of us finish out the year strong. 🙂

      Best regards.

      Reply
  5. Anthony @ dividendyieldlive.com says

    November 14, 2019 at 1:52 am

    Well done Jason. It’s great to see someone achieving there dividend investing goals. That’s quite a hoard you’ve put together.

    Reply
    • Jason Fieber says

      November 14, 2019 at 10:11 am

      Anthony,

      Thanks a lot. Appreciate it very much!

      Hope you had a great month over there on your end. 🙂

      Cheers.

      Reply
  6. Anonymous says

    November 17, 2019 at 11:53 am

    My small portfolio is up at 65k from 50k a year ago, and my latest statement says I got dividends of $175 for October. That’s nice! Long way to go though.

    Reply
    • Jason Fieber says

      November 18, 2019 at 1:01 am

      Anonymous,

      That’s good stuff. I noticed the snowball really start to accelerate once I hit $100k. You’re not too far away from that. Keep it up!! 🙂

      Best regards.

      Reply

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