Recent Buy - The Kraft Heinz Co (KHC), Kimberly-Clark Corp (KMB), and Campbell Soup Co (CPB)

In my previous post on Friday discusses a couple of positions I sold, which you can read more about here.  The proceeds from the equity positions sold was used to purchase 3 separate stocks on the same day: KHC, KMB, and CPB.  Of the three, KHC is new position for the PIV portfolio.  I have included details on each of the purchases below.

Recent Sell - Compass Minerals International (CMP) and Telefonica (TEF)

Today unexpectedly became an active day in the market for me.  I have the Yahoo Finance app installed on my phone and I typically will open up the app and take a look at my watchlist that I set up within the app in additional to the Google sheets file I have here on my blog.  When I opened the app I noticed many consumer staples were taking a hit; more on this in my next post.

Recent Buy - The Procter & Gamble Company (PG)

Made another purchase of PG that tacked on an additional 22 shares to the previous 42 I've acquired in recent months.

Purchased: 22 shares x $78.28 = $1,722.16 (+$4.95 commission)

Dividend Income: Increases forward annual dividend income by $63.11 ($2.87/sh annually; paid quarterly in Feb, May, Aug, and Nov)

Comments: Other than the purchase price, not much else has changed since my initial purchase last month.  As such, I'll refer you to the initial purchase here where additional metrics and the company profile can be found.  Forward dividend yield is 3.66% based on the company's recent announcement that can be found here; dividend increased by 4%.  With this recent purchase, PG now accounts for roughly 2% of my portfolio which I am comfortable with at current valuation.

2018 March Dividend Summary

Spring has arrived and the month of March has come to a close.  As I referenced in the February summary, March was a another month with significant changes in dividend income YoY.  This year I received $986.60 in dividends compared to last year's total of $427.97, a 76.6% increase.  Similar to the months the January and February, the significant changes in dividend income were largely driven by changes in holdings within my portfolio.  In early 2017 I deployed quite a bit of cash that I had generated from selling some ETFs, non-dividend paying stocks, as well as some idle cash I had built up in my retirement account.  Below are some details as well as some additional commentary on the dividend income for the month.