Recent Buy - 3M (MMM), Cardinal Health (CAH), and DOW Inc (DOW)

Well, it has been nearly 3 months since I last purchased shares of any stock.  With the recent political shenanigans surrounding trade and the Fed's anticipated actions the markets have seen some greater than usual volatility.  Today was no exception as such, seized the opportunity add to some existing position in addition to a purchase I made earlier this week which resulted in a new position to the portfolio.

2019 July Dividend Summary

Another month is in the books.  For the past few months, these dividend income posts have been the only blog updates since my buy or sell activity has been nearly non-existent, but not for lack of capital.  Available cash for investing has been growing at a normal pace, however, I've been exercising some caution as I believe better opportunities will present themselves, who knows, perhaps we'll see a repeat of Q4 volatility like we did late in 2018, I would love it.  In any event, one thing that has been constant this year, despite my portfolio transactions having been less frequent than I had anticipated, is the continuing climb in YoY dividend income.  See the summary below.