Not much has happened since my last Dividend Stocks, Lunch Experiment #4 update, at least from a dividend yield perspective!
For a background on how I’m going this experiment and why it’s free, click this article: A Lunch Experminent
Actually the weekly dividend amount I get for lunch dropped a bit because ANH dropped their dividend payout amount, again (they have done so for the last few quarters).
On the gains/losses in stock values, EVEP continues to tear up the market by now appreciating up to 60%! I wish I had more in this stock and less in ANH. The newest stock purchase, CIM, has performed very well and I’m fairly happy with it.
I made the purchase in CIM over 3 months ago, and over a year ago for ANH and EVEP! I don’t know if I would buy that same stocks today…
Here is the latest numbers from my spreadsheet:
| Stock Name | Anworth | EV Energy | Chimera | ||
| Stock Ticket | ANH | EVEP | CIM | ||
| # of Shares | 260 | 45 | 600 | ||
| Orig. Price | $7.84 | $23.25 | $4.01 | ||
| Curr. Price | $7.01 | $37.46 | $4.10 | ||
| Orig Cost | $2,038.14 | $1,046.25 | $2,404.80 | ||
| Curr. Value | $1,822.60 | $1,685.70 | $2,460.00 | ||
| Annual Yield | 13.12% | 8.08% | 17.56% | ||
| Quart. Dividend | $59.80 | $34.07 | $108.00 | ||
| Total Dividends | $807.48 | ||||
| 52 weeks | 52 | ||||
| Dividends / week | $15.53 | ||||
| Total Gain in | |||||
| Stock Increase | $479.11 | ||||
| % Change | 8.73% | ||||
| Amt owed to me: | $1,726 | ||||
I borrowed $2,000 from myself to purchase CIM, but it’s been whittled down to $1,726.
Other than the money I borrowed from myself (which at this point I could easily pay back by selling the stocks I have in the experiment), I don’t have any other money contributed to this experiment, so that means that it’s like free money!
So how did money get into the fund?
By skipping on going out to eat with friends at work, I was able to fund this experiment with lunch money! So I took my lunch money from myself (lol).
So, in my eyes, the money in this experiment is literally just play money, because it would have been money that I would have wasted by going out to eat with my friends at work everyday (which they still do, by the way!).
I’m now at the point where I can go out with friends at work at least twice a week. And since I telecommute once a week, I’m really able to go out with friends half of the days that I’m at work!
Not bad considering it hasn’t been a full year that I’ve run the experiment yet! Nov 12, 2010 will have been 1 year of doing this experiment!
What do you think? Is it crazy that I”m in such high yield risky stocks?
Related:
- The post that started this experiment is A Lunch Experminent
- My previous update is here: Dividend Stocks, Lunch Experiment #4, click here?