When A Stock Doesn't Have Much Daily Average Volume?

         What is the one thing that would cause a massive panic in people lives.  One thing we all take for granted.  When we drive or walk down a road we often do not think about it as it is all we know and we do not know any different.  I am talking about the trucking industry.  The saying "If you got it, a truck brought it" is so true.  The stones to make a retaining wall, the steel gates for businesses, cars, and gasoline at the gas station. A truck has to be utilized to bring all these to their current location in one form or another.
       
         Titanium Transportation Group Inc is a relatively new trucking company.
      

Titanium Transportation Group Inc is a Canada-based transportation and logistics company, which offers its services in North America. It operates in various segments, including Truck Transportation, Logistics and Corporate. It provides freight transportation services to customers, including large multinational corporations across various industries, with truckload and cross-border trucking services, freight logistics, and warehousing and distribution services. It offers trucking services through a range of trailer types, including flatbeds, step-decks, heavy axle trailers and other specialty equipment, totaling approximately 400 power units and 1,000 trailers. It also provides a range of ancillary transportation services, such as third-party logistics and freight forwarding. It also offers warehousing and distribution services, including order management and fulfillment, shipment consolidation or de-consolidation, cross dock, and reverse logistics (refurbished and restock processes). Source: Google Finance

    Titanium Transportation Group Inc. was founded in 2002 as logistics broker.  Their first truck was purchased in 2005.  In 2007, Zzen Group made a private equity investment.   The company has made 7 acquisitions from April 2011 to March 2015. The company remained private up until April 2015 and then became a public company.  The are listed on the Canadian Venture Exchange under the ticker symbol TTR.  The company is headquartered in Bolton, Ontario.

     Currently the stock trades at $1.13 a share and has a market cap of $42.63 million.  According to a June presentation, Zzen Group owns 39.2% of the company, which corresponds to 14,657,482 shares.  Titanium had 37,388, 510 shares outstanding as of June. The next highest shareholder is the founder and CEO, Tim Daniels, who owns 9.8% of the company with 3,667,647 shares.

     TTR does not have very low trading activity with an average daily trading volume of approximately 3500 shares. The company has made some acquisitions after they went public.

     Over a span of 5 years there revenue has grown each year in 2 of the 3 segments.  The revenue consists of 3 segments which are corporate, logistics, and trucking.  The corporate segment has grown to  $116.6 million in 2016 from $32.7 million, which represents a compound annual growth rate of 37.42% over 5 years.  The logistics segment has grown to $33.9 million in 2016 from $15.8 million in 2012, which represents a CAGR of 21.03% over the last 5 years.  The trucking segment has grown to $84.0 million in 2016 from $17.2 million in 2012, which represents a CAGR of 48.66% over the last 5 years.

    TTR has grown revenues a lot over the last 5 years. As they are relatively a new company, they will be growing the company and likely not pay a dividend.  Could the company continue to grow?  The company has currently has over 400 tractors and over 1300 trailers.  The company does not do intermodal as of this time, from what I get from there website. I believe the company will get involved in intermodal by opening terminals in major markets in Canada or develop partnerships with major carries in different geographical locations. Canada has access to a lot of freight from all over the world via their ports located in Vancouver, Prince Rupert, Montreal and Halifax. Canada also has 2 class one railways in Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway. 

   Conclusion:

  Trucks play an important vital role in our lives as everything moves by truck at one point or another. Trucking is a very cost intensive business, which affect the margins.

 I do believe this company will do well in the future, but will face some immediate future due to the high possibility of a recession. North America has not had a major recession since the 2008-2009.  A recession, on average, happens every 8-10 years. 

   Today, I ended up purchasing 1000 shares at $1.24 inside my margin account. I had limit orders in over several days but the price never went down to my limit price. Last night, I apparently mis-typed my limit price of $1.08 by typing $3.08.  Always double check or even triple check your orders when it comes to the markets.  The order got filled at $1.24 this morning at the market opening.  I guess I should be thankful as my purchase price got of been higher.  I will hold on to my shares for now as I do not expect the stock price to fall that much in value.  With the stock thinly traded, I do not expect much movement in the stock over the next few months unless a major announcement happens of some sort. This is a stock that an investor or trader has to be patient with and just go about other business.

   The company could be acquired by one of the major players in the industry.  I own shares currently in TFI International which is involved in Transportation and Logistics and Canadian National Railway.

Disclosure:  Long TFII, TTR, CNR

DISCLAIMER

I am not a financial planner, financial advisor, accountant or tax attorney. The information on this blog represents my own thoughts and opinions and should NOT be taken as investment or business advice.

Every individual should do their due diligence to make their own financial decisions based on their financial situation and tolerance for risk.

Alberta Economy And The Price of Crude Oil

         Alberta is a province in western Canada that is known for its oil and gas industry.  Alberta's neighboring provinces Saskatchewan to the east and British Columbia to the west has oil and gas as well.  These neighboring provinces do not have nearly the quantity of oil has Alberta.  Alberta has has the oil sands located in the Fort McMurray area.  Alberta is said to have the 3rd largest amount of crude oil in the world, behind only Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.  The east coast of Canada currently imports about $12 billion worth of oil for Saudi Arabia on a yearly basis.

        A couple of months back, the Alberta finance minister released the budget for the upcoming fiscal year.  Finance minister Joe Ceci based his predictions on oil being $55 a barrel.  Why is this important to know?  Alberta does not have a sales tax, unlike all other provinces have a sales tax separate from the federal GST (Good and Services Tax) or a harmonized sales tax (HST).  The HST is a combined tax of the GST and provincial sales tax. Alberta gets tax money from royalities from the oil and gas industry on top of corporate taxes and personal income tax.  A few years back, Alberta was known for the Alberta Advantage due to its strong economy and low taxes.  The price of oil started to decline around Sept 2014 when it was trading at around $92 dollars. Since then we have seen government changes at the provincial and federal level.

     There are lots of Albertans who are out of work and are losing their homes.  The jobs they had in the oil and gas sector are not easily replaceable in terms of skill and wages.  People who work directly in the oil patch or with companies that involve workers going to rigs to do fracking, cementing, wireline operations etc. have cut back their staff by huge amounts of the last 3 years.  We have some pundits believing that Alberta is coming out of the recession.  I totally disagree as the recent optimism has subsided with oil fallen well below $50 a barrel. Currently, WTI crude oil is trading at $43.44 per barrel as of the time of this writing. Alberta is known has a high cost producer, unlike Saudi Arabia is a low cost producer. 

     The provincial government is going to be running a bigger deficit than they originally thought as oil patch activity is way down when oil prices at these levels.  Lots of people have moved out of Alberta, while some oil patch workers are hesitant to re-enter the oil and gas industry after the fallout due to the recession. There is still a net migration of people in Alberta despite the low oil prices.

     The scary part of the Alberta recession is that the stock markets are flirting with all time highs for Canada and the United States.  History has shown that recessions happen ever 8 to 10 years. These recessions affect the entire country or countries around the world.. Major recessions also cause crude oil to be low.

      Currently, there is an oversupply of crude oil and plus the surgence of renewable energy companies affecting the price of crude oil. Some countries are members of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Companies) can sway the price of oil when OPEC member companies get together.  Canada unfortunately is not a member of OPEC. 

     Cities and towns in Alberta have been hugely affected by the low oil prices.  Calgary is said to have an office space vacancy nearing 35%.  Calgary is where a lot of oil and gas companies have their corporate headquarters.  Lots of small communities spread throughout Alberta are feeling the pinch as well as they get a lot of oil patch workers stopping in their communities for some food or lodging.

Conclusion:

    The recession in Alberta affects the entire country has a whole.  Besides the workers inside its own border, people from all across the country come to work in Alberta.  These out of province workers spend money in their home regions which increases tax revenue for their respecting provincial governments.

     Personally, I do not believe the recession is even close to being over.  Every week, we hear in the business news that we have an oversupply of crude oil. Canadian companies are hesitant to drill when the prices are this low as their chance of not being profitable are too high.  Just a few months ago, I recall a person on Business News Network saying that a company in Alberta used to hire oil patch workers at $40 per hour and now hired some people back at only $15 per house. I believe oil will dip down to around $40 per barrel before he hit $45 per barrel again. 

     Often is says the one rig creates approximately 135 jobs both directly and indirectly.

      I do believe Alberta will have to institute  a sales tax within the next couple of years if this recession caries on. 

   What are your current thoughts on crude oil and the effects on the economy?

DISCLAIMER

I am not a financial planner, financial advisor, accountant or tax attorney. The information on this blog represents my own thoughts and opinions and should NOT be taken as investment or business advice.

Every individual should do their due diligence to make their own financial decisions based on their financial situation and tolerance for risk.

Dream Office REIT - Recent News

         Dream Office REIT is the result of a name change within the last couple of years . The REIT was formerly known has Dundee REIT.  I have own units in this REIT for awhile.  I owned units in Whiterock REIT in 2011.  Dundee REIT acquired Whiterock REIT, so I decided to keep my units which became units of Dundee REIT in 2011. I have purchased more shares by both buying more units and via DRIP.

        Dream Office REIT has cut its distribution in the past year of so from $2.24 per unit per year to $1.50 per unit per year.  That decrease alone represented a decrease of 33.03%.  The share price  dropped considered over the last 5 years as evident by the chart below.

     

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Below is a 1 year chart and the units of struggled to trade over $20.00 per unit.   

    On June 22, Dream Office REIT  (ticker symbol : D.UN) announced a sale of $1.7 Billion of properties with $1.4B sale to KingSett , including interest in one of there signature properties Scoita Plaza.  Scotia Plaza is in Toronto.  The trust announced they will be reducing their annual distribution from $1.50 down to $1.00 per unit per year starting with the July 2017 distribution to be paid Aug 15, 2017.   You can read more about this here. 

   The REIT seems to be poorly managed.  D.UN has office properties in Canada.  I think the REIT management should concentrate on paying down the debt  even with interests being so low.  They currently have 106 properties with 15.4 million square feet of gross leasable area.  They have a portfolio occupancy of 86.5%.  They have properties in Alberta that have been in trouble due to the low oil prices.  Due to the recession in Alberta the past 3 years, Calgary has 33% vacancy with regards to office properties. They have a high concentration of properties in the Greater Toronto Area.


Conclusion:

       I currently own 795 units of D.UN.  So, this distribution cut to $1.00 per unit per year will reduce my dividend income by $397.50. 

      As the leases are coming up for renewal,  they have companies not renewing or doing so at lower prices due to the climate of the economies of Canada and the United States.  Companies are hesistant about being bullish on the Canadian economy as we are in odd situation.  The odd situation is interest rates being so low, the price of oil being low and the stock market at all time highs.   

      If my adjusted cost basis on my positions were below $20.00 per unit, I would definitely look to selling my positions if the price went over $20.00.   The price went up on Friday, but I believed it will be short lived.  I believed the REIT will trade between $17 and $19 for the next several quarters.

DISCLAIMER

I am not a financial planner, financial advisor, accountant or tax attorney. The information on this blog represents my own thoughts and opinions and should NOT be taken as investment or business advice.

Every individual should do their due diligence to make their own financial decisions based on their financial situation and tolerance for risk.

Analysis of WestJet

           

         Is it often said one of the worse types of companies to invest in are the airline stocks.  In fact, Richard Branson once said "The quickest way to become a millionaire is to be a billionaire and start an airline".  The airlines as an investment has garnered a lot of attention recently as in the past year Berkshire Hathaway has invested heavily in airlines in the United States. Berkshire Hathaway is the holding company which is ran by Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger.

        In Canada, currently we have 4 airlines which are Air Transat, Porter Airlines, WestJet Airlines, and the Air Canada.  I am going to talk about WestJet Airlines in this article.



        WestJet Airlines (ticker symbol WJA.TO) was started in 1996 by Clive Beddoe and a team of partners with just 3 planes.  WJA.TO is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.  The company has grown tremendously since its inception. Often people who work for airlines belong to a union, but this has not been the case for WestJet as most of their workers own shares in the company.

        When people decide to take a trip, they often go on the websites of airlines or to travel agencies to look for a deal.  This makes it harder for the airlines to be profitable and remain profitable over time. Why would some one choose a specific airline over another one if they can save money?  If the savings is not significant, the traveller will choose the airline in which they find the service better.  WestJet believes just because fares are cheaper does not mean poor quality service.

         Personally, I have travelled on both WestJet Airlines and Air Canada, and the service was the same. My very first time on a plane was with WestJet in 2003.  I flight was from Moncton, New Brunswick to Grande Prairie, Alberta and I had to change planes for the final leg of the trip in Edmonton, Alberta.  The last leg of the trip was the airplane get circling the airport and it was late at night.  The lights on the runaway in Grande Prairie were not working, so we went back to Edmonton and were put up in a hotel.  I basically told them, I absolutely refuse to share a room as I do not know anyone. I was allowed to stay in a room with 2 beds by myself without a hassel.

       When deciding on an investment, we have to do research such as pouring over annual reports doing a quantitative analysis and then doing a qualitative analysis.  Quantitative analysis is pouring over the numbers.  Investors can get information from annual reports or from online sites such as google finance or Morningstar.

         WestJet revenues have grown revenues from 2.151 billion in 2006 to 4.123 billion in 2016.  This represents a compound annual growth rate, CAGR, of  7.50% . 

        This CAGR for revenue of 7.50% for an airline is quite impressive. Over the 10 year period, WestJet has added routes to more destinations and increased frequency of some routes when the time is warranted.   The company has aggressively repurchased shares over this time.  In 2010, WestJet actually issued more shares but have aggressively bought back shares afterwards. Over the 10 year span, the amount of shares outstanding have declined by around 8%.


        WestJet earnings per share have grown from $1.47 in 2007 to $2.45 in 2016.  This represents CAGR of  5.84%. 

        With a bottom-line growth of almost 6 percent for this airline is quite impressive and even more impressive that this includes the great financial recession of 2008-2009 and the fact Alberta is in a recession for the past 3 years due to lower oil prices.
  
        WestJet did not pay a dividend until 2010 and actually the first dividend payment date was January of 2011.  The dividend has grown from $0.20 per share per year to $0.56 per year in 2016.  This represents of CAGR of 18.72% over last 6  years.  A dividend growth rate of 18.72% is impressive for any company and even more impressive for an airline.  The dividend payout ratio for 2016 is 22.4%, so the company has room to grow the dividend in the future.

    Let's turn to the balance sheet.  The long term debt to equity ratio is 0.92. The interest coverage ratio is  9.48.

Currently, WestJet is trading at a P/E ratio of 10.7.  That is well below the broader market. This is also below the stock's own 5 year average of 11.4.  Investors are paying less for WestJet's cash flow than, over average, over the last 3 years.  The current dividend yield of 2.4% for the stock is higher than it's 5 year average of 1.5%.

Valuation

Now we will at the valuation. For a valuation we will use dividend discounted model. I used a dividend growth rate of 12% for the next 5 years then leveling off after that to a 7% growth rate after that. I am using a dividend discount rate of 10%.  With these numbers I have come $24.81

According to Questrade's Market Intelligence, they have Morningstar fair value at $25.00.

If we take a average of these numbers, we get a price of $24.90.

Right now, WestJet is at $22.93 as of Friday's close.  So the company appears to be approximately 9% undervalued.

Conclusion:

As only 2 numbers were used to get an approximation of the average price the stock is worth, I would take this with a grain of salt. The low price of a barrel of crude right now lowers the operating expenses of this company. So for a larger margin of safety, I would not be a buyer at these levels.

Also I do believe WestJet has some headwinds in the future with increase competition and possibility of lower load factors for a couple of years with people tightening their purse strings in fear of recession across North America.

Disclosure:    Currently do not own any shares of WJA.TO in any accounts.

DISCLAIMER

I am not a financial planner, financial advisor, accountant or tax attorney. The information on this blog represents my own thoughts and opinions and should NOT be taken as investment or business advice.

Every individual should do their due diligence to make their own financial decisions based on their financial situation and tolerance for risk.

    

Need Money To Start?

           When a person decides to start investing, they often do not know where to start.  What type of investments should an individual pursue?  Well, the potential investor has to know what their time horizon, risk tolerance, hands on or hands off, invest themselves or have someone else invest on their behalf.

          A real estate investor is more hands on then an investor in the stock market. See, a real estate investor might have to deal with tenants directly in gathering rent, doing maintenance, and showing the property to them.  The real estate investor might be involved in choosing the proper, buying the property, getting a mortgage and advertising them. It is said that real estate investing is a business. But a individual must ask themselves if they want to fix toilets, deal with tenants, look for new tenants etc.

           On the other hand, investing in the stock market can be done real hands off or hands on.  If an individual decides they want to be a strict hands off investor, they have to find a stock broker or consult with investing professionals who will manage their money for them. A hands on investor can purchause instruments like precious metals, stocks, bonds, debentures etc by doing their own reseach and clicking a mouse.

         The method the rest of this article is about is investing in the stock market.  The big advantage of the stock market is that an individual can close a position really quick.  However, unless an individual investor has basically no control over the direction of the company unless they own a significant amount of shares already. The stock market is highly liquid.

       A question that always comes up is "Where to I start or how to begin?".  Starting out an individual might not have a lot of money.  I believe an individual should read about how the stock markets works.  He or she should also understand how to read financial statements.

       An individual investor does not need a lot of money to begin.  How to you come up with money to invest in the stock market.  Starting off, an investor needs to keep adding cash to the account.  The investor can buy stocks for cheaper commissions than ten years ago.  An investor can purchase stocks the "old way" which was purchasing stocks directly from the transfer agent or purchasing a share from a person.  The investor can purchase additional shares without commissions.  The downside to purchasing shares directly through the transfer agent is that he or she does not know what the price of the stock at the time of purchase.  If they company overs a discount on their DRIP shares, the investor is guarantee to receive this discount whereas a pseudo DRIP by a brokerage might not pass the discount onto the investor.

        Another method of purchasing stocks, is to pick stocks that pay monthly. For example, the investor saves $100 a week and their position size if $300.  So the position that pays monthly can have it's monthly dividend along with new cash to buy another position of the same stock or a new one.  A way to speed this up is to purchase commission free ETF or a REI,  rather than purchase an individual stock.  The reason for this is the ETFs and the REITs have a higher yield, for all intended purposes.  ETFs and REITs pay distributions whereas a stock pays a dividend.  Unlike a dividend, which is all the same type of income, a distribution can have its payment broken into dividends, return on capital, capital gains or interest.  The investor can take the distribution payment and add it to his own capital to purchase shares.  ETFs and REITs have  pay out 90% of their profits to unit holders. The downside to investing in ETFs or REITs, is that their is not much room for growth unless these raise more money through increasing the amount of units.

         When buying a stock that pays quarterly, an individual has to weigh 3 months to see any income from the investment. This psychologically is difficult to see at the beginning as the payments will be small. With having more money to invest at the beginning, can see an investor stay in the game though more patience and able to not throw in the towel so to speak.

Conclusion:

          Investor's will not see huge returns starting off on their journey.  It takes a while for the snowball to gather momentum and grow, but they can help speed up the process.  An individual is actually doing this right now live in real time. Dan of Sharpe Trade LLC is demonstrating starting from $500 and adding $25 each week, how an individual can build an account that pays you an income. This portfolio, which is called Sharpe Income, has an investing section and a capital gains section. The capital gains section will eventually be used to speed up the income investing side of the book. 

         If an investor buys a monthly dividend paying stock, ETF or REIT, he or she can put that capital back to work quicker.  The downside to this that dividend growth stocks, provide higher returns over the long haul as their businesses tend to grow quicker.  The companies that are considered dividend growth companies can use some of their profits to grow the business.

      The most important thing is to start.  I think a person should pay off their debts first as fast as they can and then save as much as possible this allows you to become financially free at an earlier date.
   

Disclosure:  I have no affiliation with Sharpe Trade or any of their subscription based projects. However, I do follow their public side at www.sharpetrade.com.

DISCLAIMER

I am not a financial planner, financial advisor, accountant or tax attorney. The information on this blog represents my own thoughts and opinions and should NOT be taken as investment or business advice.

Every individual should do their due diligence to make their own financial decisions based on their financial situation and tolerance for risk.

        

Price of Oil

      Western provinces in Canada have seen their industries change a lot in the past century.  The western provinces are from west to east British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.  The latter 3 are also referred to as the Prairies. 

       The Prairies are known for the farmland and the flatness of the land.  Just west  of Edmonton, Alberta the land started  to increase in elevation  as the Rockie Mountains are just a 3-4 hour drive west. Although farming is still great part of the Prairies, the economic landscape changed when conventional oil was discovered in Leduc, Alberta in 1947.  Oil and gas are concentrated mostly in Alberta, but there are concentrated areas of Saskatchewan and British Columbia.

       Alberta in particular is known for boom and bust cycles with the commodity of crude oil.  Alberta has two different methods of extracting oil from the ground.  The first method is by using drilling rigs to drill for oil and all the secondary services. The second method is extraction by mining.  The latter involved extracting oil from the dirt which in the Fort McMurray and Wood Buffalo region of Northern Alberta and if often referred to as the oilsands.  The extraction of oil from the oilsands involves the use of lots of energy and there needs to be a higher price per barrel of crude oil then what the current price is.

       Currently, Alberta has the 3rd biggest oil reserves in the world, behind only Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.  The ecomony of Canada has a lot riding on the oil and gas industry.  The oil and gas industry not only employs people in the western provinces, but people from all over Canada work in the oil industry either moving to where the jobs are or flying back and forth to their place of residence.  The reason they are able to fly back and forth is due to the high wages.

   

        
      The price of a barrel of WTI crude oil was trading at $45.82 at the time of this writing.  It is often said that one operating drilling rig creates around 135 jobs, not all oil field related.  These jobs include restaurants and hotels to service the oil and gas workers.

       From the chart, we can see that oil has been struggling to reach $50  since January 15.  This has caused massive lay offs in the oil and gas sector which leads to people losing their homes and families being torn apart.  People who have high expenses, will find it difficult to replace the income that they made in the oil and gas sector.  The recession in Alberta has effected other businesses and communities all across the country. 

Conclusion:

        In North America, we have not had a recession since the big financial crisis of 2008-2009.  A recession usually happens approximately every ten years.  Currently, we have the stock markets in North America flirting with new all time highs although the price of oil is low.  So if North America goes in to a recession the price of oil will be impacted even more. 

         I think Alberta will be in major trouble if we have a North American recession. 

DISCLAIMER

I am not a financial planner, financial advisor, accountant or tax attorney. The information on this blog represents my own thoughts and opinions and should NOT be taken as investment or business advice.

Every individual should do their due diligence to make their own financial decisions based on their financial situation and tolerance for risk.

           
        

Dividend Income Update - May 2017

      The month of May is another month of dividend income landing in my accounts. This money is used to help pay my expenses if it is needed. If the money is not needed, it is ALL used to purchase new investments to further increase my cash flow.

        The price of barrel of crude oil has falling during the month, and it currently sits below $48.00 per barrel.  As April and May is when breakup occurs in the Western Canadian oil patch. There continues to be a major surplus of oil even with OPEC extending cuts for another 9 months.  The tide is turning towards using more renewable energy sources. That being said, the worldwide need for oil will not go away anytime soon.

      One thing for sure, is that I was paid dividends and distributions for being a shareholder or unit holder in  various companies or funds. In  Sept 2016, the Dream Office REIT in the margin account will be counted as dividend income  for the first time.

 Non-registered Account

• Bank Of Montreal (BMO) - $30.80
• Emera (EMA) - $52.25
• Enerplus (ERF)  -$ 5.58
• Dream Office REIT   (D.UN)  - $77.63
• Shaw Communications (SJR.B)    - $19.75
• TD Bank (TD) - $60.00

TFSA

• A&W Royalties Income Fund (AW.UN) - $5.05
• Boston Pizza Royalties Income Fund   (BPF.UN) - $26.91
• iShares 1-5 yr Laddered Canadian Corporate Bond ETF (CBO) - $0.62
• Cominar REIT (CUF.UN) - $21.19
• Dream Office REIT   (D.UN)  - $ 17.63
• Horizons Natural Gas Yield ETF (HNY)  - $4.13
• Killam Properties REIT (KMP.UN) - $  15.60

Total = $337.14

    
    As the amount of distribution from D.UN inside my margin account, will have a large impact on the comparison of dividend income from 12 months ago. This dividend income total of $337.14 represents an increase of 13.88 % from 3 months ago.

     Dream REIT has reduced the amount of distribution they pay monthly which was announced in February 2016.  Recently, I wrote about purchasing more units of D.UN inside a margin account.  Starting in September, the distribution from this D.UN inside the margin account will be included in my dividend income.

    I received $108.15 options premiums in May 2017.
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     I will update my dividend income tab with the new amount I will include my option premium income also.  It is great to see money from passive income sources deposited into my brokerage account every single month.

How was your dividend income for May?

Disclosure : Long all securities above.

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DISCLAIMER

I am not a financial planner, financial advisor, accountant or tax attorney. The information on this blog represents my own thoughts and opinions and should NOT be taken as investment or business advice.

Every individual should do their due diligence to make their own financial decisions based on their financial situation and tolerance for risk.

Portfolio Update - May 2017

  This is just going to be a quick update as I have been busy lately.

• Added 5 units of HNY.TO in TFSA at  $13.38 for a total cost of $66.92 including commissions. The commission is free for purchasing some ETFs with my brokerage, but there is a $0.02 ECN fee.  The ECN fee is on a per unit basis so more units purchased would me high ECN fees.
• My short  $62 Put option in TD.TO expired worthless
• My short $92 Put option in RY.TO expired worthless. Then sold another put in RY.TO at $91 strike price and a June 2 expiration date.

Shares Acquired Through DRIP


3 Unit of D.UN.TO @ $19.8735  for a total cost of $59.62 (Margin Account)

1 units  of CUF.UN @ $13.2035 for a total cost of $13.20 (TFSA)

Please note, that the DRIPs inside my margin account and TFSA are synthetic drips which indicate the distribution or dividend must be enough to purchase whole shares. 


As of April 30, the value of the portfolio is $104822.69. This is a 0.562 %  increase over last month's total.  The spreadsheet in the investment tab above has been updated.

 Disclosure:   own 100 shares of TD.TO in margin account
                   
Disclosure:  Long D.UN, HNY, CUF.UN, TD

Please Note:  All stocks are from the Toronto Stock Exchange.

DISCLAIMER

I am not a financial planner, financial advisor, accountant or tax attorney. The information on this blog represents my own thoughts and opinions and should NOT be taken as investment or business advice.

Every individual should do their due diligence to make their own financial decisions based on their financial situation and tolerance for risk.