October is here and with it, the start of a new quarter which means it is time for our quarterly dividend income report. Last quarter I earned close to $1500 in dividend income. Lets see what happened in Q2.
July 2020
| Stock Symbol | Dividend Income |
| VTI | $60.16 |
| DIA | $37.19 |
| Total | $97.35 |
August 2020
| Stock Symbol | Dividend Income |
| SPY | $69.85 |
| T | $56.52 |
| VZ | $51.24 |
| DIA | $10.47 |
| COST | $646.84 |
| TOTAL | $843.92 |
September 2020
| Stock Symbol | Dividend Income |
| XOM | $88.48 |
| IBM | $173.51 |
| VYM | $137.55 |
| KHC | $36.04 |
| TOTAL | $435.58 |
Total for Q3 = $1316.85
$1316.85 is my total dividend income for the 3rd quarter of 2020. In quarter 1 I earned $1292.68 in dividend income and in quarter 2 $1462.26 bringing my 2020 total to $4071.79. That is just $262 short of my total for the entire year of 2019 with 3 more months to go.
I will certainly smash last years total but I’m pretty sure I will fall short of my goal of $6500 for 2020. I would need to earn another $2500 in the last 3 months of the year and given the fact that I have never even exceeded $1500 and I do not expect to invest much more into the market in 2020, I should expect to land about $1000 short of my goal yet still a great deal ahead of last year.
We shall see.
Thanks for reading
~Earl