Dividend Income Update - March 2022

   

The month of March 2022 is another month of dividend income landing in my accounts.

Due to becoming debt free, I changed my pay myself model. Starting the beginning of August 2021. I am paying myself 30%, just like before. This will now consist of 24% to investing, and 6% to savings. The investment portion is going to my TFSA. Any money left over at the end of the month, I put towards investing on top of the money allocated from paying myself first. Hopefully, I can keep this up!

Note: All the dividends and totals below are in Canadian Dollars

I received a total of $532.03 in dividend income for the month of March 2022. This represents a 4.10% increase from 3 months ago and 15.03% increase year over year.

I received dividend / distribution income from 13 different companies.

I received $0.00 in option premiums within my investment accounts in March 2022.

Below is a visual of my dividend totals for the last 5 years.

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Most of my dividend income comes from my margin account.

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Next, I will show the percentage of total income for each position.

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The percentage of dividend income from Enbridge has decreased due to dividend raises and Cominar REIT paying its last distribution. Cominar REIT did not pay a distribution in December 2022 as it in the process of an all cash buyout.  The deal was not yet finalized, so Cominar decided to pay distribution for January and February, in mid-February and mid-March respectively.  The Cominar buy-out finalized on March 4 and the cash was received in my account.  

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.

Note: Any activity in my RRSP account is not included in these totals.

How was your dividend income for March 2022?

Disclosure : Long all mentioned securities

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