Stocks bought/sold during March/April 2022

 

Due to the that Shell was even considering to buy oil from Russia during the ongoing war in Ukraine I decided to directly sell them off. I will also admit that I reacted in haste but when it comes to, to me, morally wrong things then I prefer to push the sell button too early than too late. I therefore sold my 270 shares in shell for a total value of 6,210.41€. During the 16 months holding period I have received dividends in the size of 274.40€ on the investment of 3,039.41€ meaning I had a profit of 113%.

I bought an additional 190 parts in ETF EU for 6,250.72€ which is now up at a total 355 parts with 12,301€ invested.

Due to that my stock ISA had been filled I've been holding on to a larger quantity of cash that I could now in the start of the UK tax year push into the Stock ISA for this money I therefore bought:

400 more shares in EasyJet for a total cost of 2,799.39€.

25 more shares in Yum for a total of 2,876.17€.

30 shares in Netflix for a total cost of 6,131.44€

65 shares in Restaurant Brands International for a total of 3,640.19€.

All this will be updated in the new summary that is coming shortly.

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.

Dividends during December 2021

 

I'm a little bit late with this report so actually it also covers the dividend payments during the first week of January also but to my great pleasure several of them have paid out dividends to me so that it great!

BP - paid out 38.54€ that was received as cash on my broker account.

Nike - paid me 10.77€, the taxman took his pound of flesh (15%) and I received 9.16€ as cash on the broker account.

IBM - paid me 36.38€ and in the end it dropped in 30.92€ in cash.

TJC - paid out 14.61€ of which I received 12.42€.

Intel - paid me a nice chunk of 41.25€ of which 35.06€ stuck on my broker account.

ETF EU - directly gave me 13.52€ on my broker account.

Shell - gave me a nice payment of 58.29€ directly as cash.

McDonalds - paid out 29.40€ as cash on my broker account and finally

Yum brands - paid me the tiny sum of 8.44€ on my broker account.

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.

Dividends and odd matters April 2021

 

Shell decided to pay out dividends to me and I received 37.10 € as cosh on my broker account.

Skanska made a very nice dividend payment in the size of 231.49 € of which 69.45 € was retained in taxes and I received 162.04 € as cash on my account.

RWE also paid out a nice dividend in the size of 280.50 € of which 73.98 € was kept by the German tax office and I received 206.52 € as cash on my broker account.

Now move on to the more annoying matters... My broker account in Germany always send everything out as paper and needs a signature for everything such as when a company increases their shares. This means that I never manage to respond to any of that because the papers often arrives AFTER it has already taken place.

DBAG raised new shares and since I could not join in they were sold for ma and I received 153.41 € as cash on my broker account.

Apparently the ETF Portugal that I have owned since 2017 was suddenly liquidated and I received 8260.04 € as in cash on my broker account. I've been looking for a different PSI20 ETF but I've not managed to find one so I will have to push it into a different ETF.

Stock bought in December 2020

In December the salary arrives on the 24th which is a nice Christmas gift for many however it also makes the month of January very, very long. My "normal" investment is ~€2k and also this month I stretch it out to be closer to €3k so January will very likely be very long for me... 

I decided to increase my holding in Shell and I therefore bought 80 more B shares for €1124. This means that I now have 270 shares in Shell at a current invested value of €3171 or €11.74 per share.

I once again bought shares in a company with low trading volumes and therefore I will also not reveal which company this is but it shall instead be named Stock Y. In total 770 shares were bought for a total investment of €2193 or €2.85 per share.

To take a look at my current Stock Portfolio then please click on the link (if blogger allows it...). The portfolio will however not be fully updated until the end of the month.

Dividends during December 2020: Shell, Intel, IBM & BP

Shell kindly paid out some dividends to me for my 190 shares in the size of €26.09 which, due to them being held in an ISA and being the UK Shell shares B, I paid no taxes on it and it arrived as cash on my broker account.

Intel also paid out dividends to me in the size of €37.06 from this was taken €5.56 in taxes and I received €31.50 as cash on my broker account.

As tradition holds for the US companies with quarterly payments I received also dividends from IBM. I received €33.56 and from this Mr. Taxman took €5.03 leaving €28.53 as cash on my account.

The final dividend payment for the year was from BP and in the size of €34.45 which was directly paid out as cash on my broker account.

To see my total dividend flow then please visit the Stock Dividends page that has now been updated. 

Stock bought in October 2020: Shell

 

Due to the reduced oil prices, Covid-19 and US election it felt like a very good moment to start buying more oil companies.

I therefore bought 190 parts in Shell (B shares UK taxed) for a total of 2047 € including the stamp duty which gives a price of 10.77 € per share.

To take a look at my current Stock Portfolio then please click on the link. The portfolio will however not be fully updated until the end of the month.

Analysis of Shell 2015

Company: Shell

ISIN GB00B03MM408 | WKN A0ER6S  

Business: A Dutch oil company. They are divided into three parts: Upstream (explore and extracts crude oil and gas), Downstream (refines, supplies and trades) and finally Projects & Technology (simply put research and innovation). 

Active: Over 70 countries world wide.

P/E: 14.4

Comment: Shell is annoying. They have A+B shares as well as ADR. Their shares are traded in EUR, GBX and USD but their annual reports are in USD. I ended up re-calculating from Shells market cap to an amount of B shares that this would represent and then I re-calculated the dividend based on the quantity in billions that they had paid out. I hope it is not completely wrong what I have done. Deciding upon which share to actually buy as an investor will be a research topic on its own...

Analysis of Royal Dutch Shell

Company: Royal Dutch Shell

Business: This Dutch oil company is divided into three units: Upstream explores for and extracts crude oil and natural gas, Downstream refines, supplies, trades and ships crude worldwide, manufactures and markets a range of products, and produces petrochemicals for industrial customers and finally they have Projects & Technology manages delivery of Shell’s major projects and drives the research and innovation to create technology solutions.

Active: They are active in over 70 countries world wide. As a small comment I know people that are working for Shell and I´ve never heard a bad word from them. It is a company that very early on started to take very good care of their employees and that is not based on salary but based on work / spare time ratio. A burned out employees simply costs far more then sending that person off for a week on vacation.

P/E: 7.5