2017 Investing Summary

Here are my investing numbers for the 2017 calendar year.

	1/1/2017	12/31/2017	Change since Jan 1st	Avg/Week
Robinhood Portfolio Value	$2,186.18	$3,586.18	$1,400.00
Money from my pocket	$1,876.00	$2,902.00	$1,026.00	$19.68
Dividends	$59.27	$137.76	$78.49	$1.51
Gains/Realized & Unrealized	$250.91	$546.42	$295.51

I didn't invest as much as I would have liked into the Robinhood App this past year, but I made good progress. I have 47 different stocks in my Robinhood Portfolio, which is an increase from 2016. I am going forward into 2018 with a projected 240 dividend payments, which is equivalent to getting paid 2 out of every 3 days from dividends. 

Dividends Received in 2017			$78.49
# of Dividends Received in 2017			156
Average Dividend Payment Amount			$0.503

Below are my $78.49 in dividends broken down by which company paid those dividends. 

Stock Ticker	Stock Name	Dividends
GE	General Electric	$5.04
VZ	Verizon Communications	$4.66
QCOM	Qualcomm Inc	$4.48
T	AT&T Inc	$3.92
EMR	Emerson Electric	$3.85
JNJ	Johnson & Johnson	$3.32
MSFT	Microsoft Corp.	$3.18
PEP	PepsiCo	$3.12
PG	Procter & Gamble	$2.74
ITW	Illinois Tool Works	$2.73
O	Realty Income Delaware	$2.51
UNP	Union Pacific	$2.50
AAPL	Apple	$2.46
TGT	Target	$2.44
DE	John Deere	$2.40
BNS	Bank of Nova Scotia	$2.34
SO	Southern Company	$2.30
INTC	Intel Corporation	$2.17
GIS	General Mills	$1.94
IP	International Paper	$1.86
BKH	Black Hills	$1.83
PEG	Pub Svc Enterprise Group	$1.72
UL	Unilever	$1.55
KO	Coca-Cola	$1.48
FE	First Energy	$1.44
SYY	Sysco	$1.32
ADM	Archer Daniels Midland	$1.28
USB	US Bancorp	$1.14
CSCO	Cisco Systems, Inc.	$1.13
ABT	Abbott Laboratories	$1.08
F	Ford	$0.65
DDR	DDR Corp.	$0.57
SBUX	Starbucks Corporation	$0.55
HPQ	HP Inc.	$0.52
PFF	iShares US Preferred ETF	$0.48
SPTN	SpartanNash	$0.34
KBWD	PowerShares KBW High Div	$0.33
SPHD	PowerShares S&P 500	$0.25
DIV	Global X SuperDividend	$0.24
SDIV	Global X SuperDividend	$0.24
GGP	General Growth Properties	$0.22
PEY	PowerShares High Yield	$0.17
AMD	Advanced Micro Devices	$0.00
CL	Colgate	$0.00
DNKN	Dunkin Donuts	$0.00
HPE	HP Enterprise	$0.00
POR	Portland General Electric	$0.00
STX	Seagate Technology	$0.00
WMT	Walmart	$0.00

Enjoy the last day of 2017!

Signed,

Mitch

Investing Update 12/25/2017

Hello and Happy Holidays!


Year-To-Date Update

	1/1/2017	12/23/2017	Change since Jan 1st	Avg/Week
Robinhood Portfolio Value	$2,186.18	$3,595.46	$1,409.28
Money from my pocket	$1,876.00	$2,902.00	$1,026.00	$20.12
Dividends	$59.27	$136.04	$76.77	$1.51
Gains/Realized & Unrealized	$250.91	$557.42	$306.51

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

Since January 1st, 2017, my portfolio has grown by $1,408.28. $1,026.00 of that growth (value increase) came from money out of my own pocket to buy more stocks. $76.77 of that growth came from dividends. $306.51 of that growth came from stock prices increasing.


Dividends Received

Dividends Received in 2017	$76.77
# of Dividends Received in 2017	149
Average Dividend Payment Amount	$0.515

This Week's Stock Purchases

I did not buy any stocks this past week.

At this point in time, I have 47 stocks. 46 of those stocks pay dividends, and the other stock is AMD (I bought it because it is considered a "meme" stock, and I think the conversation around AMD is fun to follow).

I am able to buy so many different stocks due to not paying commission fees, thanks to the trading app called Robinhood. If you want to learn more about Robinhood, click here. 

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

Signed,

Mitch