Dividend Income Update - October 2024

The month of October 2024 is another month of dividend income landing in my accounts.

Due to becoming debt free, I changed my pay myself model. Starting the beginning of August 2021, I am paying myself 30%, just like before. This will now consist of 24% to investing, and 6% to savings. The investment portion is going to my TFSA. Any money left over at the end of the month, I put towards investing on top of the money allocated from paying myself first. Hopefully, I can keep this up!

Update on paying myself first. At the start of August 2022, I now pay myself 35%. This will consist of 25% to investing and 10% to savings.

At the start of January 2024, I allocated 27% to investing and 10% to savings.

Starting July 2024, I started allocating 30% to investing and 10% savings.

Note: All the dividends and totals below are in Canadian Dollars

I received a total of $1451.79 in dividend income for the month of October 2024. This represents a 0.187% increase from 3 months ago and a 53.6% increase year over year.

I received dividends from 2 US stocks. Chord Energy dividend was in actual US dollars. The value above in the Canadian Dollar equivalent of the US dividend (minus the 15% withholding tax) using the exchange rate on the actual day the dividend hit my account. For Meta Platforms, my brokerage converted the US dividend (minus the 15% withholding tax) to Canadian dollars.

I received dividend / distribution income from 15 different companies.

I received $0.00 in option premiums within my investment accounts in October 2024.

Below is a visual of my dividend totals for the last 5 years.

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Most of my dividend income comes from my margin account. As more investments and DRIPs are made inside TFSA, the percentage of dividend income for the TFSA is increasing.

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Next, I will show the percentage of total income for each position. For the positions and their corresponding percentages missing from the chart below, Riocan REIT (REI.UN) made up 1.8% and Mullen Group (MTL.TO) made up 0.5% of the dividend income.

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In first ten months of 2023, I received $7024.46 in dividends. In first ten months of 2024, I received $9755.61 in dividends. This is an increase of 38.88% YTD in 2024 over the same period in 2023.

The graph below shows my total dividend income, as per the blog, since 2012.

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I will update my dividend income tab with the new amount. I will include my option premium income also. It is great to see money from passive income sources deposited into my brokerage account every single month.

Note: Any activity in my RRSP account is not included in these totals.

How was your dividend income for October 2024?

Disclosure : Long all mentioned securities

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