December Stocks I Might Buy

 Below are some stocks that I'm looking at purchasing to get the companies' upcoming dividends. 

I had to do a double take for the Costco dividend since it was listed at $10.00. When I looked it up, it is a special dividend that Costco is paying. Fastenal's $0.40 dividend is also a special dividend. 

If you want to receive the dividend from this companies, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date. So today, Monday 11/30/2020, was the last day to buy Costco or Fastenal to get those dividends. 

Ticker	Company	Ex-Div Date	Div $
COST	Costco Wholesale Corporation	12/1/2020	$10.00
FAST	Fastenal Company	12/1/2020	$0.40
QCOM	QUALCOMM Incorporated	12/2/2020	$0.65
HD	Home Depot, Inc. (The)	12/2/2020	$1.50
D	Dominion Energy, Inc.	12/3/2020	$0.63
GPC	Genuine Parts Company	12/3/2020	$0.79
WM	Waste Management, Inc.	12/3/2020	$0.55
HPQ	HP Inc.	12/8/2020	$0.19
VFC	V.F. Corporation	12/9/2020	$0.49
PPL	PPL Corporation	12/9/2020	$0.42
WMT	Walmart Inc.	12/10/2020	$0.54
FDX	FedEx Corporation	12/11/2020	$0.65
BBY	Best Buy Co., Inc.	12/14/2020	$0.55
QSR	Restaurant Brands International Inc.	12/18/2020	$0.52
MKC	McCormick & Company, Incorporated	12/30/2020	$0.34
BGS	B&G Foods, Inc.	12/30/2020	$0.48
GIS	General Mills, Inc.	1/7/2021	$0.51
SYY	Sysco Corporation	1/7/2021	$0.45
HRL	Hormel Foods Corporation	1/8/2021	$0.25
ABBV	AbbVie Inc.	1/14/2021	$1.30
LOW	Lowe's Companies, Inc.	1/19/2021	$0.60
CLX	Clorox Company (The)	1/26/2021	$1.11

If I had to guess, I'll probably be purchasing MKC, BGS, GIS, SYY, and HPQ. (These are not stock recommendations). I like food companies and I have an HP computer :) 

Signed,

Mitch

2020 Dividends So Far

I think my goal for 2020 was to get $300+ dividends in my Robinhood Portfolio. Like a lot of goals planned for 2020, this isn't going to happen. 

You can see in the chart below the dividends I've received over the past 5 years. On November 9th of this year I passed the amount of dividends received in all of 2019. I was hoping to have reached this checkpoint earlier in the year, but I'll still end up getting over $200 in dividends this year. 

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
January	$1.92	$4.19	$7.26	$8.51	$14.65
February	$2.51	$5.19	$7.96	$9.58	$15.00
March	$2.47	$9.41	$12.86	$20.21	$28.51
April	$1.29	$3.06	$6.18	$10.43	$13.23
May	$4.48	$5.02	$9.17	$11.62	$11.43
June	$7.96	$9.63	$12.10	$21.92	$32.70
July	$1.97	$4.55	$4.23	$10.96	$8.76
August	$3.09	$5.03	$5.18	$11.88	$12.05
September	$7.99	$9.85	$7.47	$21.52	$28.90
October	$2.72	$5.95	$6.01	$11.80	$8.97
November	$3.68	$5.48	$6.08	$12.78	$14.04
December	$9.40	$11.13	$17.74	$27.73	$0.00
Total	$49.48	$78.49	$102.24	$178.94	$188.24

I expect it will take a little longer to get back on course due to some companies reducing or cutting dividends. While I don't know of too many companies doing this, I heard that Disney is cutting their dividend for now. Also, I own Dunkin Donuts stock, and that is getting bought out into a private company. I will get some cash from the Dunkin Donuts buyout so I can buy more dividend stocks with that.

Signed,

Mitch

Apple Shares Oustanding

I've been tracking Apple's outstanding shares for awhile now and here is an update with the Fiscal Year Quarter 4 earnings - https://investor.apple.com/investor-relations/default.aspx

For this specific update I had to divide the # of shares outstanding on the financial report by 4 due to Apple's 4 for 1 stock split at the end of August (highlighted in yellow)

I should learn how to read these financial statements better because this is one of the only numbers I look at. 

Date Ended

Year - Quarter

Basic - Shares Outstanding

9/30/2017	FY17 Q4	5,149,428,000	-45,660,000
12/31/2017	FY18 Q1	5,112,877,000	-36,551,000
3/31/2018	FY18 Q2	5,024,877,000	-88,000,000
6/30/2018	FY18 Q3	4,882,167,000	-142,710,000
9/29/2018	FY18 Q4	4,801,589,000	-80,578,000
12/29/2018	FY19 Q1	4,735,820,000	-65,769,000
3/30/2019	FY19 Q2	4,674,071,000	-61,749,000
6/29/2019	FY19 Q3	4,570,633,000	-103,438,000
9/28/2019	FY19 Q4	4,490,812,000	-79,821,000
12/28/2019	FY20 Q1	4,415,040,000	-75,772,000
3/28/2020	FY20 Q2	4,360,101,000	-54,939,000
6/27/2020	FY20 Q3	4,312,573,000	-47,528,000
9/26/2020	FY20 Q4	4,264,405,500	-48,167,500

If Apple keeps buying back their shares, and keeps making the same amount of money, their earnings per share will go up, which should increase the stock price. 

Apple's stock price has been stagnant for the past couple months but that makes sense since it increased by a huge amount over the summer. 

Signed,

Mitch

Dividend Stocks Purchased this Week

 Hello,

This past week I was able to buy some stocks that have upcoming dividends. I was able to save up some money from tracking my spending and I wanted to buy some stocks since I haven't bought any stocks in awhile. Below are the stocks I purchased and the dividend yield I'll get. 

• FE - First Energy
• $30.16/share - $0.39 dividend
• ($0.39/dividend * 4 dividends/year) / $30.16 /share = 5.17% dividend yield

• PFE - Pfizer
• $36.20/share - $0.38 dividend
• ($0.38/dividend * 4 dividends/year) / $36.20 / share = 4.20% dividend yield

• VFC - VF Corporation
• $69.50/share - $0.49 dividend
• ($0.49/dividend * 4 dividends/year) / $69.50 / share = 2.82% dividend yield

• SJM - J.M. Smucker Company
• $116.00/share - $0.90 dividend
• ($0.90/dividend * 4 dividends/year) / $116.00 / share = 3.10% dividend yield

• IP - International Paper
• $45.00/share - $0.512 dividend
• ($0.512/dividend * 4 dividends/year) / $45.00 / share = 4.55% dividend yield

• SO - Southern Company
• $59.10/share - $0.64 dividend
• ($0.64/dividend * 4 dividends/year) / $59.10 / share = 4.33% dividend yield

• INTC - Intel Corporation 
• $44.50/share - $0.33 dividend
• ($0.33/dividend * 4 dividends/year) / $44.50 / share = 2.97% dividend yield

I'm pretty happy with these yields since most of them are close to or above 3.00%. These are mostly companies I've owned stock in for a few years now and while I don't know a ton of details about them, I'm not completely unfamiliar with them either. 

Hope you're having a good weekend. 

Signed,

Mitch

November 2020 Ex-Dividend Dates

Hello!

Happy November. I went through Nasdaq's website - https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/dividends - with information on upcoming dividends. I picked out dividends of companies that I'm interested in - whether I already own them or am looking to buy them. The list is sorted by ex-dividend date. If I choose to buy any of these stocks, I will need to buy them before the ex-dividend date. 

If I want to received the $1.11 dividend from Clorox, with an ex-dividend date of Tuesday, 11/3, I will need to buy the stock tomorrow, Monday 11/2. 

Also note, the current price of the stock is as of Friday, 10/30. 

Count #	Symbol	Name	Ex-Dividend Date	Dividend	Current Price	Div Yield
1	CLX	Clorox Company (The)	11/3/2020	$1.11	$207.25	2.14%
2	FE	FirstEnergy Corp.	11/5/2020	$0.39	$29.72	5.25%
3	PFE	Pfizer, Inc.	11/5/2020	$0.38	$35.48	4.28%
4	INTC	Intel Corporation	11/5/2020	$0.33	$44.28	2.98%
5	AEP	American Electric Power Company, Inc.	11/9/2020	$0.74	$89.93	3.29%
6	SBUX	Starbucks Corporation	11/10/2020	$0.45	$86.96	2.07%
7	DUK	Duke Energy Corporation	11/12/2020	$0.97	$92.11	4.19%
8	KR	Kroger Company (The)	11/12/2020	$0.18	$32.21	2.24%
9	SCHW	The Charles Schwab Corporation	11/12/2020	$0.18	$41.11	1.75%
10	SJM	J.M. Smucker Company (The)	11/12/2020	$0.90	$112.20	3.21%
11	SO	Southern Company (The)	11/13/2020	$0.64	$57.45	4.46%
12	IP	International Paper Company	11/13/2020	$0.51	$43.75	4.69%
13	TGT	Target Corporation	11/17/2020	$0.68	$152.22	1.79%
14	ED	Consolidated Edison Inc	11/17/2020	$0.77	$78.49	3.90%
15	DFS	Discover Financial Services	11/18/2020	$0.44	$65.01	2.71%
16	MSFT	Microsoft Corporation	11/18/2020	$0.56	$202.47	1.11%
17	CMI	Cummins Inc.	11/19/2020	$1.35	$219.89	2.46%
18	JNJ	Johnson & Johnson	11/23/2020	$1.01	$137.11	2.95%
19	NEE	NextEra Energy, Inc.	11/25/2020	$0.35	$73.21	1.91%
20	KO	Coca-Cola Company (The)	11/30/2020	$0.41	$48.06	3.41%
21	MCD	McDonald's Corporation	11/30/2020	$1.29	$213.00	2.42%
22	TSN	Tyson Foods, Inc.	11/30/2020	$0.42	$57.23	2.94%
23	QCOM	QUALCOMM Incorporated	12/2/2020	$0.65	$123.36	2.11%
24	VFC	V.F. Corporation	12/9/2020	$0.49	$67.20	2.92%
25	WMT	Walmart Inc.	12/10/2020	$0.54	$138.75	1.56%
26	DPZ	Domino's Pizza Inc	12/14/2020	$0.78	$378.32	0.82%

I'll try and update with any purchases I make. 

Don't forget to vote on Tuesday if you have not already!

Signed,

Mitch