Archive for “April 2006”

I Will Teach You to Be Rich

Written by The Dividend Guy on April 30, 2006 3 Comments »

There is an awesome blog out there, and one of the writer’s topics is investing. Within in it, there is a whole schwack of excellent articles about investing and his view of investing correctly. I have to say, there was very little in his blog that I could find reason to disagree about.

To […]

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Portfolio Performance YTD - 5%

Written by The Dividend Guy on April 29, 2006 3 Comments »

My portfolio YTD is up 5.2% according to Microsoft Money. Let’s look at this in comparison to the overall markets for their YTD numbers:

S&P/TSX (Canada):

8.3%

FAIL

S&P 500:

5.0%

PASS

Those darn resource stocks in Canada keep shooting the Canadian markets up, and my only true exposure is through Talisman Energy which has been doing well, but offset by […]

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Dividends Received for April - $49.72

Written by The Dividend Guy on April 28, 2006 1 Comment »

April is usually a pretty good month for me in terms of dividends received in my account. This year’s was really no different.

In total I received a total of $49.72 in dividends from the companies I own. Here is how it breaks down:

Coca-Cola:

$10.91

Merck & Co:

$15.02

BCE:

$19.24

General Electric:

$4.55

General Electric:

$4.55

General Electric:

$4.55

TOTAL:

$49.72

Of course, due […]

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Sold Merck - Buying More Procter & Gamble

Written by The Dividend Guy on April 27, 2006 3 Comments »

My trade to sell my Merck shares went through today. I sold 34.1309 shares at $34.72 per share for a total payout of $1,303.66 (including foreign exchange and commissions). I am still very confident in my decision to sell based on the fact that they are going to fight each suit against them […]

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