Dividends April 2024

 

Nike paid out 13.71 €, the US taxman took 2.06 € which left me with 11.65 €.

Rio Tinto paid out 772.21 € of which all was received as cash.

Barclays paid out 117.77 € of which all was in cash to my broker account.

HSBC paid out 203.26 € all received as cash.

It should be mentioned that the tax rate in Sweden is 30% on capital gains such as dividends. In every case in the end of the year I declare these dividends and pay a tax up to the 30% in Sweden. So for the US shares I need to pay 15% more and for the UK shares I need to pay the full 30% from what was paid out. So yes, I get it out as cash but with the tax declaration I pay in the money required for my capital gains.

Dividends in August/September 2023

 

I thought there would only be some trickles of dividends arriving during the remainder of the year but I was clearly wrong. I had some serious pay out from especially Rio Tinto which is much appreciated!

ETF All-World paid out 26.05 € as cash on my broker account

ETF S&P500 paid out 63.41 € as lovely, lovely cash.

ETF EU-UK paid out 82.53 € as cash on my broker account.

Rio Tinto paid out a total of 514.09 € as cash on my two broker accounts.

HSBC paid out 64.35 € as cash to me.

Barclay decided to pay out 59.10 € as cash on my broker account.

Lloyds were also generous and paid out 68.90 € to my broker account.

Intel has tighten the purse and only paid out 35.36 €, the taxman took 2.32 €, leaving me with 33.04 € as cash on my two broker accounts.

BP paid out 52.53 € on my broker account.

IBM paid out 38.49 €, taxman took 5.78 € leaving me with 32.71 € on my broker account and finally

TJX paid out 19.48 €, taxman took 2.92 €, leaving 16.56 € as cash on my broker account.

Dividends in April 2023

Happily a lot of dividends have dropped in since the last report and especially RioTinto is a pleasure to receive dividends from during this day and age of change.

RioTinto - From my 325 shares I received a total of 685.66 € which was paid out as cash.

HSBC - My 700 shares paid out 149.24 € as cash.

Barclays - With my 1,900 shares I received 109.25 € as cash.

H&M - The 603 shares paid out 173.83 €, the taxman took 52.15 €, which left me with 121.69 € in cash.

Talanx - My 80 shares paid out 160 €, taxman took 42.20 €, and left me with 117.80 € in cash.

BASF - The 140 shares paid out 476 €, the German tax office took 125.54 €, leaving me with 350.46 € in cash.

Skanska - My 250 shares paid out 164.93 €, Swedish taxman took 49.48 €, and I got 115.45 € paid out in cash.

Nike - With my 40 shares I received 12.45 €, USA taxman kept 1.87 € and I was left with 10.58 € in cash.

A great period for dividend payments!

Dividends during Aug/Sep/Oct 2022

 

Several companies have made payments during the three last months and can be seen below.

Yum Brands paid out 22.22 €.

McDonalds paid out 32.91 €.

Rio Tinto paid out 379.00 €.

ETF EU paid out 72.71 €.

Restaurant Brands paid out 56.13 €.

Nike paid out 12.41 € of which the tax man took 1.86 € leaving 10.55 € as cash on broker account.

BP paid out 46.53 €.

IBM paid out 40.48 € of which the tax man took 6.07 € leaving 34.41 € for me.

TJX paid out 18.84 € of which the tax man took 2.82 € and leaving 16.02 € as cash for me and finally...

Intel paid out 49.18 € with tax man taking 7.38 € and leaving me with 41.80 € in cash.

Stocks bought October 2022

 

Since I cannot make any further investments into my UK stock ISA, I decided to push some money over to my German broker account to buy a bit on the dip that had occured.

I therefore bought an additional 175 shares in Rio Tinto for a total cost of 9,954 € and this now gives me total of 325 shares at a cost of 19,544 € or 60.14 € per share. The reason being that most metals are being traded in dollars and they pay a hefty dividend of 11%. Rio Tinto is however traded on the London Exchange in £ which similar to the € have devalued compared to the $.

I also decided to push some more money into ETFs and I therefore bought 40 shares in a ETF EU 600 at a total cost of 6,811 €. Once again I preferred to buy in £ or € to avoid the strong $.

Stocks bought/sold June 2022

 

I increased my holding in RioTinto by buying 40 more shares at a total cost of 2,376 €. My total holding is now 150 shares at a cost of 9,590 €.

I also sold off Stock X so 364 shares departed and this gave me 71 € in cash on my broker account after the trading fees were paid giving a total loss of 991 €. Stock X was a small American company that was seeking FDA approval for a drug that is already commonly used in the world, including EU. However they failed miserably in getting that approval hence no reason to keep them.

Dividends during March/April 2022

 

Yum brands paid out 9.74€ as cash on my broker account.

McDonalds paid out 29.89€ on my broker account.

ETF EU paid out 45.11€ to be used as I please on my UK broker account.

Shell paid out 58.86€ on my broker account.

Rio Tinto paid out the handsome amount of 462.12€ as cash on my account.

Intel dribbled in 31.56€ in cash.

BP paid the miniscule amount of 39.85€ as cash.

Nike provided me with 9.37€ in dividends and finally...

Skanska paid out 242.94€ of which I got to keep 170.06€ paid out as cash.

Stocks bought in December 2021

 

Due to a tax return and change of tax group I was able to make a more substantial investment than usual during December. I therefore decided to buy two holdings, one old and one new one.

The first one was that I increased my holding in Rio Tinto by buying 45 more shares at a price of 55.74 € with a total cost, including stamp duty, of 2,520.49 €.

I also decided to buy more ETF and I found Vanguard FTSE Developed Europe had a reasonable yearly price tag of 0.1% fee. I therefore bought 65 parts of this ETF at a cost of 36.16 € per part with the total cost of 2,350.69 €

I made one more investment <1k € but the company is so small that I do not want to bring it up and I will not include it in any updates. The two mentioned above will however be included in the next update.

During the weekend I managed to go to Berlin for Christmas market and to see my friends there. It was really nice but life for a non vaccinated person will not be very joyful in the future. Every restaurant, stores, cinemas etc all demanded to see proof of vaccination and ID card before you are allowed to enter. So people have two options: Either I get the vaccination or my life will be very much centred around me sitting at home and never doing anything fun. Germany takes a similar approach to winter tyres. There is no law about it but if you have an accident in winter without having winter tyres on then the insurance companies are not paying out... so you are pretty much forced to use winter tyres even though there is no law about it. It's a bit passive/aggressive.

I'm currently waiting for the PCR result before I'm allowed to get back into the office again so fingers crossed it comes back negative and I can be in the office tomorrow.

Dividends during Sep/Oct 2021

 

During the two months there were some substantial dividend payments being made to my broker accounts. The biggest by far coming from Rio Tinto that with this payment snuck in on second place in dividend payments for the year. Only BASF have in cash paid out more to me.

McDonalds paid out 26.34 € as cash on my broker account.

Shell increased their quarter dividends and paid out 55.51 € to my broker account.

Rio Tinto added a bonus dividend payment which meant that I received 310.71 € out as cash on my account.

Nike paid out 9.45 € and after taxes I got 8.03 € on my broker account.

BP paid out 36.72 € and all of it ended up as cash on my account.

IBM paid out 34.51 € and after taxes I got 29.33 € on my account to make new investments with.

Sold and bought stock in June 2021

 

The development of Stock X did not live up to the expectations and therefore I significantly reduced my holding of it. I sold 1060 shares and received 2571.61 € out as cash on my broker account. This gave me a loss of 24% or -941.26 € during the 6 months holding period. It will be brought into the realised G/L in the next monthly summary report.

I decided to increase my Rio Tinto holding and I therefore bought 33 more shares which totalled up to 2341.78 €. This change will also be included in the monthly summary report.

Stock bought in May 2021

I already have one failed mining company (K+S) however they are not active in the field of metal mining. Rio Tinto pays a nice dividend of around 5% and I should have bought them many years ago but was back then, unfortunately, held back when I discussed it with other people.

I ended up buying 32 shares in Rio Tinto at a total cost of 2338.58 € which includes a stamp duty of 11.60 € which gives me a price per share of 73.08 €.

I've been thinking for months about buying shares in one of the British pub chains but I don't like their level of debt so I keep putting it off.