Welcome to a new report of my Dividend Diary on the TEV Blog. Here, I report the development of a cash flow-oriented investment approach that focuses on generating a passive income through dividends. Against this background, the goal is not to outperform the market but to put food on the table through a regular income via dividends.
With the Dividend Diary, I document how a cash-flow investment approach can be part of well-balanced wealth management. To keep things simple, I have built three pillars:
- Active income.
- Passive income.
- Conversion.
Dividends fall into the last two categories. They are passive because they provide a cash flow without me going to work. Additionally, they are an essential pillar for conversion since they can be reinvested to generate even more income in the future. That is the Theory. Now let’s get down to practice.
My monthly income with dividends in December:
This month, my cash-flow approach generated the following income through dividends:
- Pfizer (39.32 EUR)
- Johnson & Johnson (17.49 EUR)
- Archer Daniels Midland (12.37 EUR)
- Unilever (38.46 EUR)
- Snap-on (52.64 EUR)
- IBM (32.55 EUR)
- 3M (13.36 EUR)
- Qualcomm (37.92 EUR)
- Realty Income (19.46 EUR)
- Cboe Global Markets (8.05 EUR)
- Main Street Capital (9.36 EUR)
- Stanley Black & Decker (10.45 EUR)
- Extra Space Storage (27.91 EUR)
- Main Street Capital (20.95 EUR)
- FTSE Japan USD ETF (37.89 EUR)
- Imperial Brands (12.00 EUR)
- Broadcom (29.45 EUR).
So overall:
- the total monthly income with dividends in December (after taxes) was: € 418.28 / appr. $ 434.
- compared to last year, the performance was great (+ 22 percent YoY),
- ⌀ monthly dividend income (ttm): € 573.63 / appr. $ 596,
- ⌀ monthly dividend income (ttm) compared to the previous month: + 0.8 percent.
The bigger picture looks like this:
Stock sales and purchases in December
I sold all of my CVS Health shares and reallocated the freed-up capital to my existing Omega Healthcare stake. Furthermore, I bought more shares of great companies via my automatic investing plan:
- AbbVie
- Assa Abloy
- Alexandria Real Estate REIT
- Automatic Data Processing
Booking Holdings (paused in December)Bristol-Myers Squibb (paused in December)- Cboe Global Markets
Diageo (paused in December)- Extra Space Storage
- Emerging Markets ETF
- Japan ETF
- Kontron
- Mensch & Maschine
- Merck Co.
Meta (paused in December)- PepsiCo.
- Realty Income
- Snap-on
- Siemens
- Qualcomm
- Williams-Sonoma.