February 2022 Dividends

 

Hello everyone,

Wow, it's nice to be back. As the younger ones say, it's been a minute. My last update was back in June 2021, a good 8 months ago. Before I get into anything further, I do want to thank you as always for stopping by.

Where have I been?

It's a combination of other life things getting in the way, and laziness unfortunately. Thankfully, I have the time now to get back into this and provide my dividend update. Even though I had stopped providing updates, the dividends haven't stopped (thankfully), as you will see later on. Enough about that, let's get to the update. 

My dividend income summary for February 2022:

February 2022 Dividend Summary
Taxable Accounts
Company	Symbol	Date	Amount
CVS Health	CVS	2/1/2022	$80.30
AT&T	T	2/1/2022	$39.52
Verizon	VZ	2/1/2022	$84.48
Quest Diagnostics	DGX	2/2/2022	$50.84
Apple	AAPL	2/10/2022	$3.52
Abbott Labs	ABT	2/15/2022	$8.46
Procter & Gamble	PG	2/15/2022	$14.79
William-Sonoma	WSM	2/25/2022	$23.43
Ameriprise	AMP	2/28/2022	$37.29
Taxable Accounts Total	$342.63
Roth IRA Account
Company	Symbol	Date	Amount
Quest Diagnostics	DGX	2/2/22	$0.62
Abbott Labs	ABT	2/15/22	$12.30
Omega Healthcare Investors	OHI	2/15/22	$25.23
Roth IRA Account Total	$38.15
Overall Dividend Income Total	$380.78
Forward 12-month Projected Dividend Income Total			$6,389.47

Transactions

Now, let's take a look at my February transactions:

What did I buy? See below:

Buys	Qty
DGX	1
MMM	7
TROW	1
VZ	27

• DGX (Quest Diagnostics): 1 share was added, resulting in $0.66 additional income for the next payout, and $2.64 over the next year.

• MMM (3M): 7 shares were added, resulting in $10.43 additional income for the next payout, and $41.72 over the next year.

• TROW (T. Rowe Price): 1 share was added, resulting in $1.20 additional income for the next payout, and $4.80 over the next year.

• VZ (Verizon): 27 shares were added, resulting in $17.28 additional income for the next payout, and $69.12 over the next year.

All totaled up, these purchases will yield an additional $118.28 over the next year.

There were no sells for February.

Dividend Income History

Now let's take a look dividend income history in tabular and graphical form:

Month	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Jan	0	$14.38	$14.42	$70.45	$72.34	$97.11	$237.62	$221.32	310.28
Feb	0	$49.07	$50.38	$112.01	$190.55	$178.07	$204.19	$186.53	380.78
Mar	0	$50.22	$52.16	$182.28	$232.83	$231.81	$422.58	$708.76
Apr	0	$10.83	$27.91	$64.56	$78.40	$70.34	$204.78	$256.49
May	0	$46.52	$59.42	$132.14	$162.41	$187.18	$220.09	$233.47
Jun	$6.69	$47.51	$90.97	$198.86	$259.18	$195.35	$473.99	$763.35
Jul	0	$18.99	$51.37	$168.64	$102.00	$80.81	$219.55	$307.22
Aug	$33.96	$50.11	$86.07	$156.46	$183.50	$192.45	$220.94	$251.00
Sep	$54.75	$55.61	$101.70	$226.17	$192.40	$211.61	$579.94	$817.07
Oct	$10.94	$14.42	$72.53	$79.06	$133.64	$78.18	$132.19	$302.05
Nov	$48.79	$50.11	$103.31	$158.18	$184.42	$167.86	$241.77	$255.26
Dec	$63.55	$49.89	$168.03	$234.71	$255.99	$315.70	$603.75	$878.55

Comparison over the last Quarter and Year

2022 has started off well, with new highs in January and February. At this point let's take a look at dividend income change over the last quarter as well as year:

	%Chg Qtr	%Chg Year
Feb 2022	49.17%	104.14%

In the last quarter (since November 2021), income has increased from $255.26 to $380.78, amounting to a 49% increase. Over the last year, income has more than doubled, from $186.53 to $380.78. This is encouraging as I proceed to continue to build my dividend income. It's great to see that the income itself is becoming a larger part of what gets added regularly to the portfolio.

Wrap-up

So there you have it, apologies for the hiatus, but I am back now, and intend to provide more regular updates. Thankfully the dividend growth machine did not go on a hiatus, and it shows.

How was your February 2022? Let me know below in the comments!