Dividend Update: April 2023

Posted on by Dividend Daddy

My April 2023 dividend total is $6,634.14

This means that in April:

  • I earned $221.14 every day from dividends.
  • I earned $41.46 per hour from dividends (assuming a 9-5pm job).
  • I earned $9.21 every hour of every day of the month from dividends.
  • My top 3 dividend earners this month were in the financials and telecoms space and were 48.5% of my monthly dividend total:
    1. Bank of Nova Scotia ($1,276.26) – 19.23% of my monthly dividend total
    2. CIBC ($885.70) – 13.35% of my monthly dividend total
    3. BCE Inc. ($1,054.58) – 15.90% of my monthly dividend total
  • My equity purchases totalled $24,863.16
  • I sold $18,598.67 worth of overlapping/duplicative ETFs and reinvested the proceeds.

Dividends $6,634.14

Telecoms

  1. BCE Inc. – $1,054.58
  2. TELUS – $570.89

Financials

  1. Bank of Nova Scotia – $1,276.26
  2. CIBC – $885.70
  3. First National Financial – $124.00

Real Estate

  1. VNQ – Vanguard Index FDS REIT – $111.66
  2. RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST – $72.45
  3. Medical Facilities Corp – $87.91
  4. MORGUARD REAL ESTATE INVT TRUST – $10.18
  5. H&R REAL ESTATE INVT TR – $7.50
  6. NORTHWEST HEALTHCARE PROPERTIES REAL ESTATE INVTMNT TRUST – $16.53
  7. ARTIS REAL ESTATE INVT TRUST – $8.10
  8. CHOICE PROPERTIES REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST – $25.50
  9. PRIMARIS REAL ESTATE INVT TR  – $2.53
  10. CANADIAN APARTMENT PPTYS REAL ESTATE INVT TRUST – $24.16
  11. CT REAL ESTATE INVT TR – $20.61
  12. SMARTCENTRES REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST – $120.26
  13. ISHARES S&P/TSX CAPPED REIT INDEX ETF – $7.83
  14. CI CANADIAN REIT ETF – $6.35

Bonds

  1. ZFL-BMO Long Federal Bond ETF – $185.63
  2. ZCS-BMO Short Corp Bond – $7.89
  3. XSH – IShares Core CDN Short ETF – $4.17

Energy

  1. TRANSALTA RENEWABLES INC – $24.20
  2. Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp – $337.18
  3. Capital Power Corp – $254.04
  4. TC Energy Corporation – $485.46
  5. CANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES LTD – $275.40

Other

  1. ZEA-BMO MSCI EAFE Index ETF – $362.95
  2. ALIMENTATION COUCHE-TARD INC – $17.50
  3. NUTRIEN LTD – $179.21
  4. PARK LAWN CORPORATION – $5.13
  5. ALTRIA GROUP INC – $57.43
  6. BMO LADDERED PREFERRED SHARE INDEX ETF – $4.95

Purchases $24,863.16

I sold $18,598.67 worth of overlapping/duplicative ETFs as I continue to consolidate and pare down my investment portfolio and reinvested the proceeds. In other words, did some housekeeping. New money added this month was on the lower side at $1,442.00.

  1. 66.1593 shares of BNS – Bank Of Nova Scotia
  2. 13 shares of TD – Toronto Dominion Bank
  3. 39 shares of BCE – BCE Inc
  4. 0.7935 shares of RY – Royal Bank
  5. 91 shares of  CM – Canadian Imperial Bank Of Commerce
  6. 1 share of ISHARES CORE MSCI ALL CTRY WORLD EX CDA INDEX ETF
  7. 1 share of NBAM – Brookfield Asset Management Ltd (Class A)
  8. 2 shares of MFC – Manulife Financial Corp.
  9. 103 shares of CNQ – Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.
  10. 24 shares of EQB – EQB Inc.
  11. 8 shares of SLF – Sun Life Financial, Inc.
  12. 6.5091 shares of EEMV – BTC iShares Edge MSCI Min Vol Emerging Markets ETF
  13. 29.841 of ZFL – BMO Long Federal Bond Index ETF
Dividend Update: April 2022