Monthly Report: January 2016

I post an update every month on the taxable dividend income I receive in my brokerage accounts, the non-taxable dividends I receive from my Roth IRA accounts, the market value of my taxable brokerage accounts, the market value of my Roth IRA accounts, the market value of my 401(k) account, and my savings rate.

Below is the monthly report as of January 31, 2016:

Taxable Dividend Income (Total: $29.03)

• Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. (DPS) - $0.12
• Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB) - $9.02
• The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC) - $0.09
• Pepsi, Inc. (PEP) - $0.59
• Realty Income Corporation (O) - $5.28 (Increased 9.09% from January of last year)
• Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) - $13.93 (Increased 13.25% from January of last year)
• Total taxable dividend income of $29.03 increased by 69.37% from January of last year.

All dividend increases are from dividends reinvested and dividend raises from the companies.  I'm very happy with the total year over year dividend increase.

You can see a schedule of all the taxable dividends I have received here.

Non-Taxable Dividends (Total: $97.71)

• Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund (VBLTX) - $97.71 (Increased 2.45% from January of last year)
• Total non-taxable dividend income of $97.71 increased by 2.45% from January of last year.

The increase in distributions for this month compared to last January is below average.

You can see a schedule of all the non-taxable dividends I have received here.

Market Values (Total: $297,243.91)

• Brokerage Accounts - $81,840.96 (Increased 1.49% from prior month)
• Roth IRA - $55,878.23 (Decreased 0.24% from prior month)
• 401(k) - $159,524.72 (Decreased 3.87% from prior month)
• Total market value decreased by 1.77% from prior month.

I'm not too concerned with the market value of my taxable brokerage accounts since the investment strategy with that is solely to generate a growing stream of dividend income.  As long as the dividends keep coming and are increasing, I'm not too worried.  Nevertheless, it's still interesting to see how it is performing.

You can see a schedule of the market values for my brokerage accounts, Roth IRA account, and 401(k) account as of the end of every month here.

Savings Rate

• 38.18%

Savings rate was pretty good this month.  I have bumped up my savings rate target this year from 15% to 20%, so I'm very happy with January's savings rate.

You can see a schedule of my savings rate by month here.

How did you do this month?