May 2016 Dividend Update

So here we are, May is almost over and “strangely” I do not have a lot of dividends that have not been paid into the account yet… All the proceedings that had to arrive did so, and therefore I can update the dividend situation well in advance compared to the past.

This is the first “record”, actually there is a more important record that I am reporting today, May 2016 has been the most prolific month since the journey started in terms of Dividends! A grand total of 1237 Euro (at the time of writing, the total will be different day to day because of exchange rate) was paid into the account this month!

Actually I am cheating a little with this record, mostly because I have to change the way dividends are reported into the spreadsheet that I have. Before I was getting dividends “already taxes” by the Italian government, today I am reporting the “almost gross” dividends and taxes have a separate entry. This is due to two main reasons:

A. The new broker that I am moving to (see here) doesn’t calculate Italian taxes, I will have to do that at the end of the fiscal year

B. It’s an actually more accurate form of reporting as I can see how much Italian taxes dig into the performance of my portfolio (a LOT actually…)

But the graph at the end of the post tells it all, and the comparison has been made with the same reporting system, so there!

Third record is the fact that in 5 months I have managed to get as many dividends as last year. This is “as usual” because at the same time last year the portfolio was still mostly cash and therefore comparisons are not exactly in favour of 2015.

Without much ado, here’s the list of the payers:

BPOP 2022 – EUR 105.38
LON:OML – GBP 71.88
NRZ – USD 99.71
FRA:BAS – EUR 64.05
T – USD 32.64
VZ – USD 21.61
LON:PSON – GBP 39.10
EPA:MMB – EUR 59.15
LON:BATS – GBP 40.79
EPA:SAN – EUR 51.28
OKE – USD 15.68
BIT:CMB – EUR 34.50
O – USD 4.23
PG – USD 36.99
PET 23 – USD 262.50
LON:IRV – GBP 63.14
BIT:SFER – EUR 25.30
BIT:ATL – EUR 21.60
BIT:G – EUR 57.60
BIT:SRG – EUR 57.50
BIT:ENI – EUR 56.00

Another important point is the fact that I have gotten 2 bonds payments this month, they account for almost a 1/4th of the total proceedings.

Moving on…