Market Down, Dividends Up

What I love about dividend growth stocks is the growth in dividends in a lot of different circumstances. For the stocks that I follow for year of 2018, the stock prices maybe down, but we seem to be doing fine with dividend increases.

In 2018 there has been only 2 dividend decreases or suspensions and 94 increases in dividends. See the chart below for increases and decreases in dividends for 2016 and 2017. (Note that not all the stock that I follow are good dividend stocks by the way.)

Mths	2018	2018		2017	2017		2016	2016
Action	Incr	Decr		Incr	Decr		Incr	Decr
Jan	7	0		6	2		4	0
Feb	7	0		10	0		5	2
Mar	22	0		23	0		18	5
Apr	8	0		10	1		8	4
May	3	0		5	0		3	2
Jun	13	0		13	0		18	0
Jul	4	0		4	1		3	1
Aug	4	0		0	0		4	0
Sep	11	0		10	0		7	1
Oct	1	0		0	0
Nov	5	1		5	0		6	0
Dec	9	1		12	0		12	0
Tot	94	2		98	4		88	15
%	62%	1%		64%	3%		56%	10%
	152			154			156

I also have statistics for 2014 and 2015. In 2014 I had 99 stocks with increases and 4 with decrease. In 2015 I had 95 stocks with increases and 18 with decreases. Note that when I publish my month article on Dividend stocks, the dividend increases and decreases are for the next dividend due for a stock.

I am personally done well this year as far as dividends go. My dividend income is up 11.1% even though my portfolio is down year to date. I only measure my portfolio at the end of each month. To the end of November 2018 my portfolio is down my 1.35% and the TSX is down by 8.72%. My portfolio tends not to go as low the TSX, but on the other hand it also does not go as high. It is less volatile than the TSX.

On my other blog I wrote yesterday about Stella-Jones Inc. (TSX-SJ, OTC- STLJF) ... learn more. Next, I will write about Keg Royalties Income Fund (TSX-KEG.UN, OTC-KRIUF) ... learn more on Friday, December 14, 2018 around 5 pm.

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