Tuesday 6 March 2018

July 2017 - Investment No 19


Although I have been topping up on existing shares recently, I found I share which pays a dividend in August.  This is the only month in the year I currently do not receive any dividend.  I have actually missed out this year, as I found the share a little late. The shares paid a special dividend back in June, and the shares also went ex-dividend in June. But c'est la vie, there is another ex-dividend date in November with a payment in January and of course there is always August 2018 when the payment should also be paid.

However since my last investment a month ago, I have received the following dividends:

BP plc £50.33
Royal Dutch Shell "B" £15.96
Centrica £37.80
Persimmon £85.80
GlaxoSmithKline £ 13.68

I decided to sell the balance of my 184 shares in Antofagasta.  After dealing costs I received £1,873.49 This was a total of 23% on my original investment, 75% from the balance of shares purchased in July 2017 and 5% from the shares originally purchased in March 2014. The dividend income this was producing was disappointing and I had another share I wanted to purchase.

This share was in National Grid plc, in the Gas, Water & Multi-utilities sector and is one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the world.


https://www.nationalgrid.com/

As the timeline of my posts are starting catching up on reality, I am going to space them out a little until they actually catch up.  Thereafter they will be soon after I each investment is made.

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