Investments

On November 17, 2020, I sold 1000 shares of Blackstone (LON:BGLF) at EUR 0.65 to purchase 16 shares with PFE at $36.27 per share We have been holding BGLF stock since 2018, in general, I still like the stock, but my investment philosophy has changed and I'm not interested anymore to hold stocks without options on the London stock exchange. From the money received I bought additional 16 shares of PFE paying $36.27 per share. PFE is a stock I'm buying for the partnership fund. With its quarterly dividend of 0.38 cents per share, this latest buy has a dividend yield of 4.19% and will pay us an…

On November 11, 2020, we bought an additional 20 shares of Ares Capital Corporation (ARCC) paying $15.508 per share for my Mom's pension Fund.  With its quarterly dividend payout of 0.4 dollars per share, this latest buy has a dividend yield of 10.32% (before tax) and will pay us an additional $8.00 (before tax) every quarter. Awesome. There are two simple reasons we like this stock - it has a high dividend yield of about 10%, and we can trade both put and call options. ARCC has dividend payments in March, June, September, and December. We will get a small boost in these months. Selling…

Tosmāre is a neighborhood of Liepāja, located between Lake Tosmare, the Karosta, and Zaļā Birze. Not as chic as the city center of Liepāja, we still find this a very luring neighborhood and most important - undervalued In one of our previous articles, we shared an idea of possible investments in the Karosta / Tosmāre neighborhoods of Liepāja. See: Invest in Liepāja Real Estate / Tosmāre / Karosta Today we decided to visit Tosmāre, and take some cool drone photography while exploring the area As we have applied for 2 online auctions in the Tosmare neighborhood, and while we are still waiting…

Welcome to the forty-fifth (#45) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks and peer to peer lending in January 2021. The last January we spent in Latvia, did a lot of planning with our flat in Vilgāle, order new windows, got a construction permit, and started the first renovation works (hired local contractors). At the end of January, we relocated to Jūrmala, where we plan to spend the next two months. Cēsis Castle in Latvia On January 2, we paid a shot visit to Cēsis and Valmiera in Latvia From the perspective of dividend income - Last January was one…

On January 29, 2021, I bought 3 shares of Apple stock (NASDAQ:AAPL) paying $131.79 per share.  With its quarterly dividend of 0.20 cents per share, this latest buy has a dividend yield of 0.61% and will pay us an additional $0.60 every quarter (before tax).  Not the biggest income, but when buying Apple stock I'm are not looking at a dividend alone. instead, I'm looking at a potential value growth and options income from covered calls. At the start of January, I got an inheritance of EUR 6,061 - I decided to put this money at work in the stock market, for the starter invested EUR 550 in INTC…

On November 9, 2020, we bought an additional 14 shares of Pfizer (PFE) paying $39.30 per share for our Partnership Fund. With its quarterly dividend payout of 0.38 dollars per share, this latest buy has a dividend yield of 3.86% (before tax) and will pay us an additional $5.32 (before tax) every quarter. Not the biggest dividend, but every bit counts!  We are now holding 84 shares of PFE in our Partnership Fund portfolio There are three simple reasons we like this stock - it has a reasonably high dividend yield of more than 3%, it has increased the dividend payout for the past 9 consecutive…

On January 8, 2021, we bought an additional 8 shares of Viatris (NASDAQ: VTRS) paying $18.39 per share for our Partnership Fund. Viatris is the latest addition to our Partnership fund. VTRS is a spinoff from Pfizer stock (which we hold already 100 shares), and it was decided to keep investing in this stock until we will reach 100 shares and will be able to sell covered calls on it. We are now holding 70 shares of VTRS in our Partnership Fund portfolio Using dollar-cost averaging our average cost per one VTRS share is $15.91 30 shares to go once we will be able to start selling covered calls…

On November 4, 2020, I sold 80 shares of Stone Harbor Emerging (NYSE:EDF) at $6.55 to purchase 20 shares with T at $27.35 per share We have been holding EDF stock since July 2018, in general, I still like the stock, but my investment philosophy has changed and I'm not interested anymore to hold stocks without options From the money received I bought additional 20 shares of AT&T (T ) paying $27.35 per share. T is a stock I'm keeping in our daughter's stock portfolio. With its quarterly dividend of 0.52 cents per share, this latest buy has a dividend yield of 7.6% and will pay us an…

At the start of January 2021, I received my dad's inheritance to my bank account. Inheritance is no more and no less than  EUR 6,061.21 Here is what I have decided to do with the funds - invest in the stock market during the rest of 2021 We talked a lot about the stock market, while dad was still alive. Unlike me, dad was very conservative and he didn't actually invest, rather saved, The money I've inherited comes from his savings and earnings at the 3 pension pillar. To honour my dad, I've decided to invest these funds into INTC and PLTR  (or LI) stocks, where INTC is a conservative holding…

On October 30, 2020, we bought additional 5 shares of Realty Income Corp. (NYSE:O ) paying $57.73 per share. With its monthly dividend of 0.23 cents per share, this latest buy has a dividend yield of 4.78% and will pay us an additional $1.15 every month (before tax).  I find it pretty awesome! To finance this purchase we spent half of our options income in the month of October, see October 2020 Options Income Report - $548.24 For the rest of the year, we are looking to take $0.97 in dividend income (after tax) from this buy. We now hold in total 23 shares of O, In total, they contribute about…