Investing Update 2/5/2016

I can't believe it's February already. I guess it's true that time moves faster the older you get. That's why I remind myself to value every single day. From my view, at least from the stocks I have, the market has stabilized a bit this week.

Year-To-Date Update

	1/1/2016	2/5/2016	Change since Jan 1st
Robinhood Portfolio Value	$607.87	$728.63	$120.76
Money from my pocket	$550.00	$675.00	$125.00
Dividends	$9.79	$13.36	$3.57
Gains/Realized & Unrealized	$48.08	$40.27	-$7.81

The table above shows the change in my Robinhood portfolio since the start of 2016.

Robinhood Portfolio Value = (Money from my pocket) + (Dividends) + (Gains/Realized & Unrealized)


Dividends

I received three dividend payments this week.

Company	Ticker Symbol	Dividend Amount	Stock Buy Price	Annualized Div Yield
John Deere	DE	$0.60	$78.79	3.05%
AT&T	T	$0.48	$33.90	5.66%
Verizon	VZ	$0.57	$45.77	4.98%
Total		$1.65

The annualized dividend yield = (Dividend Amount * 4) / Stock Buy Price.

The reason the dividend amount is multiplied by 4 is because these stocks pay dividends 4 times a year. So the yearly amount of dividends I'll receive divided by the cost of the stock equals the dividend yield.

I'm pretty happy with a 5.66% yield on the AT&T stock, and close to a 5.0% yield on the Verizon stock. These yield %'s have the opportunity to go up if one or two things happens.

1. I buy additional shares at the same price or less than what I bought the current stocks at.
2. The companies raise their dividends.


Stock Purchase

I did not buy any stocks this week.


2016 Investing Missions

• Purchase and hold 25 different stocks that pay dividends: 13/25 - 56% Completed (Not counting Disney stock)

• Receive $75 in dividends: $3.57/$75.00 - 4.76% Completed.

You can click on the investing tab or here to see what stocks I currently have in my Robinhood portfolio.

Signed,

Mitch