Monthly Report: October 2017

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 October 31, 2017:

Taxable Dividend Income (Total: $61.45)

• Cardinal Health, Inc. (CAH) - $2.31
• The Coca-Cola Company (KO) - $20.70 (Increased 6.43% YOY)
• Genuine Parts Company (GPC) - $14.31
• Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB) - $9.85 (Increased 2.39% YOY)
• Medtronic plc (MDT) - $6.51
• Realty Income Corporation (O) - $6.11 (Increased 6.26% YOY)
• Sysco Corporation (SYY) - $1.66
• Total taxable dividend income of $61.45 increased 75.32% YOY.

New positions I added fresh capital to this year are CAH, GPC, and SYY.  An existing position I added fresh capital to this year is KMB.  All other 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 Dividend Income (Total: $29.05)

• Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) - $6.92
• Cardinal Health, Inc. (CAH) - $7.40
• Genuine Parts Company (GPC) - $8.22
• Medtronic plc (MDT) - $6.51
• Total non-taxable dividend income of $29.05 decreased 70.07% YOY.

New positions I added fresh capital to this year are CAH and GPC.  The reason for the large decrease in my non-taxable dividend income is because I exchanged my entire position in VBLTX for VGHCX.

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

Market Values (Total: $484,133.58)

• Brokerage Accounts - $144,499.23 (Increased 9.39% from prior month)
• Roth IRA - $87,545.50 (Decreased 0.86% from prior month)
• 401(k) - $252,088.85 (Increased 2.44% from prior month)
• Total market value increased 3.79% 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

• 8.95%

Savings rate for this month is the lowest year to date, and it's also lower than my 25% savings rate target.  I'm not pleased with this low savings rate in comparison to my savings rates historically, but having any kind of savings is still better than no savings at all.

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

How did you do this month?