August 2018 – FIRE Dividend Portfolio Update

I decided to share my journey building out a new portfolio focused on investing in dividend growth stocks.

Here is summary of the holdings for the dividend portfolio.

Buy Orders

Dividends

Total dividends received for August was $416.13. The two transactions for EPD and ETP were not actually dividend payments. Due to the merger agreement between ETP and ETE, shareholders received 1.28 ETE common units in exchange of ETP shares.

Qualcomm (QCOM) announced an additional 10 billion share buyback as well as settled a 774 million antitrust dispute with Taiwan regulators for only 93 million. I never liked the NXP acquisition attempt and thankfully the deal fell through resulting in a nice price increase during the months.

Conclusion

I have noticed many people around me in my life do not know what FIRE means. FIRE is an acronym for (F)inancial (I)ndependance (R)etirement (E)arly. It seems to be a growing trend among a select growing group of people who desire to reach financial freedom. I only came across this community recently myself. My purpose for this blog is to share my life beyond FIRE experiences as well as to share my life lessons. I hope to learn together as a community, share ideas and inspire each other. I look forward to your comments and ideas!

Thank you for reading!