When you get into DIVIDEND INVESTING, you’ll run across a term called payout ratio. To properly evaluate a companies ability to continue paying its dividend, you must learn what this means. What is Payout Ratio? Essentially, payout ratio tells you how much of a companies earnings are paid out to its shareholders. Visualize a pie….
Here is my October Passive Income Report: Patreon-$113.29 Adsense-$5.34; traffic is down on my music website considerably. Not sure what is going on but ever since I converted to https my traffic has dropped off! This truly affects ad revenue. Dividends $69.13 Amazon Affiliate $0.18; Once again Amazon continues to be the weakest link, just…
For passive income, my Mid-June is looking good so far. Here is last months report if you want to compare: I’m already making DIGITAL PRODUCT sales and it is only the second week. In addition, I’m improving my sales via Amazon affiliates. Let’s get to the numbers on my Passive Income Journey here: Patreon so…
So, I’m STARTING to concentrate more on my passive income besides dividends. More income equals more money to invest. I need to get the cash flow coming in more so I can invest it and compound it even faster. As the passive income wheel turns….. I’m gradually finding out what works for me and what…
Here are my DIVIDENDS for the month of May. If you’d like to compare to last month, here you go: First up is my BROKERAGE account, here they are: Putnam Municipal Income Closed End Fund paid me 0.13 cents. Ha, if you haven’t seen my post before, I bought into this over a year ago…
Here are my DIVIDENDS for the month of April: 1)Macy’s-I sold out of Macy’s a while back but for some reason I’m still getting dividends. Hey no arguments. Macy’s paid me $4.53 2)Eastman Chemicals paid me $33.00 3)Schneider Trucking paid me .91 cents 4)QQQ $1.45 So as you can see not a WHOLE LOT in…
1)Buy and Hold is a great strategy but not ALWAYS the best strategy. I have had serious winners (up 30%) turn to losers (down 30%) in a hurry. I held on because I believed in buy and hold. Meanwhile, I would have been better off to take some off the table. I ALWAYS take a…
I recently began supercharging my portfolio with more growth and tech stocks. Fortinet had an earnings report today. How did it do? Fortinet beat earnings and revenue. A 21% increase in revenue year over year here. Earnings of .76 vs. .59 from this quarter a year ago. So, that is looking pretty awesome here. Gross…
I started the first week of 2020 by buying more Netflix and Akamai. I want to increase tech/growth exposure in my portfolio going forward. What have I sold? I sold all of my Kroger in my IRA for around 17-18% profit, I sold all of my shares of 3M for about a 5% gain, Verizon…
Six Flags I began purchasing Six Flags on October 24th. I purchased three times and now I am up a total of 3.10%. Volumes have been increasing but there have also been some VERY obvious manipulation attempts to the stock. So, we will see what the larger institutions do with this one. It is still…
I will start by saying this is one of the best books I’ve ever read on investing. It’s written by Bruce Miller, who is a Certified Financial Planner. Unlike many investment books, he never gets wordy or uses overly technical jargon. His manner of writing is extremely clear and the order of the layout is…
Index Funds vs. Dividend Stocks The old question of whether one should invest in an index funds or try their luck at dividend investing. Online I see many people advocating for one over the other. However, I personally don’t have this mindset. I see no reason a person can’t do BOTH. That’s what I do…