Dividend Income Update - April 2023

   

The month of April 2023 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!

Update on paying myself first. At the start of August 2022, I now pay myself 35%.  This will consist of 25% to investing and 10% to savings. 

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

I received a total of $893.19 in dividend income for the month of April 2023. This represents a 1.909% decrease from 3 months ago and 19.52% increase year over year.

The decrease in from 3 months ago is the reduction in Algonquin's annual dividend rate and Shaw Communications did not pay a dividend.  Shaw Communications did not pay a dividend because Rogers Communications acquired Shaw Communications after the deal was approved by the federal government. 

I received dividend / distribution income from 13 different companies.

I received $0.00 in option premiums within my investment accounts in April 2023.

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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In the first four months of 2023, I received $2364.67 in dividends. In the first four months of 2023, I received $2856.28 in dividends. This is an increase of 20.79% YTD in 2023 over the same period of 2022.

The graph below shows my total dividend income, as per the blog, since 2012. 

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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.

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

How was your dividend income for April 2023?

Disclosure : Long all mentioned securities

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