Again, one month passed and it is time to report my dividend income. It is time to write a post.
A post about my favorite topic, dividends! I hope this post inspires other people out there to start saving and investing as soon as they can. The power you feel knowing that you are richer than you were yesterday and you didn’t have to work a minute for it, is a wonderful feeling.
Dividend
In total I received € 374.46 ($ 394.71) in passive income in December. My Vrijheid Fonds had four dividend increases. Aflac raised its dividend with 4.9%, McDonalds with 5.6%, Chevron with 0.90% and Microsoft with € 8.3% I really love this kind of increases.
If we take a closer look, the dividend was coming from:
- Royal Dutch Shell A (RDS) € 166.09
- Unilever (UN) € 65.30
- AFLAC (AFL) € 8.32
- Archer-Daniel-Midlands (ADM) € 9.91
- Chevron (CVX) € 31.35
- Coca Cola (KO) € 22.58
- Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) € 19.35
- McDonalds (MCD) € 15.92
- Microsoft (MSFT) € 10.07
- Realty Income (O) € 8.14
- Target (TGT) € 17.42
That makes a total of € 374.46. This is an increase of 35.8% from last years December. This increase was mainly due to dividend increases and the high Dollar price.
For an update of my Dividend Income click the hyperlink.
In 2016 I received a total in passive income of € 3,079.38. This in including the super-dividend from Ahold in July (€537.85).
Vrijheid Fonds
If we take a look at my Vrijheid Fonds (Freedom Fund), you can see that due to my installed drip in RDS and UN the number of shares have risen.
My total portfolio value at the end of December is €79,165, which is an increase of 6.65% over last month November (€ 74,223). A huge part of this incredible monthly gain is due to the rising of the Dollar against the Euro (52% of my Vrijheid Fonds consist of Dollar funds) and the Year-end rally.
Again this month I made a nice step in my journey.
Thanks for reading!
Cheers,
Pollie
Note:
Because all figures I give are in Euro’s. Because the exchange rates is not constant (duh…) my passive income changes per month (even if the dividend stays the same). For the record: I only post my passive income from dividend the month I received it on my brokers account. And it is after taxes.
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Hi Pollie!
Really awesome progress. I love the dividend increases from 2016!
Looking forward to following you during 2017!
Best of luck!
Thanks!
Thanks for following me!
My Vrijheid Fonds had a lot of dividend increases. And this I love 😉
I hope 2017 will bring even more increases.
Cheers,
Pollie
Impressive numbers, and looks like you got a bunch of raises to boot. That’s fantastic 🙂
Thanks!
Very nice progress. Those green bars look beautiful once they are all higher on your graph. How exciting!
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I agree. In a graphic you can see in a blink of an eye how your progress was. And those green bars really look good!
Cheers,
Pollie