All My Dividend Income In May | $136,200 PORTFOLIO 💰

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[00:00:00]So guys, in May I received seven different payments, many of which came from some of my favorite dividend growth stocks like Lowe's, Procter & Gamble, and Williams-Sonoma. And in this video, we're going to go through each of those payments and add them all up to reveal my dividend income for the month, as well as my total income received so far in 2026. But before we get to those, I want to hear from you. Leave me a comment below and let me know what were some of your highest dividend payments this month and which stocks did they come from? I'd be very curious to hear if we have any of the same ones. Anyway guys, getting into it, the first dividend payment I received this month came from none other than Lowe's, which is one of my favorite dividend kings.

[00:00:35]And in the month of May, Lowe's paid me $19.76, which was a great way to kick off the month. And when reinvested back into my portfolio, that added almost a tenth of a share to my position. And as far as the share price performance, Lowe's has had a pretty cruddy month, guys. As we can see over here on Fiscal AI, just in the past 30 days, the stock is down 12.6%.

[00:00:55]Year-to-date, that's going to leave Lowe's down 14%. So 2026 as a whole has been rough for the company. And the big drop that we saw this past month happened despite recently putting out some pretty solid earnings where they beat on both the top and bottom line.

[00:01:08]And they actually saw pretty decent jump in revenue as well. It was up about 10% year-over-year. So that looked pretty solid. Still though, if we take a look at my Lowe's position over here on my dividend portfolio tracking spreadsheet, which you can start using for free to track your own portfolio, there is a link to this down in the description of the video. I hope you check it out. But here we can see I have 16 and a half shares of Lowe's at an average cost of about $195 per share. So with the current share price right now at about 212, that's going to leave me up about 8.7% just looking at the share price and a bit more, about double that on a total return basis. I'm up 17 and a quarter percent. But anyway, now moving on to the second dividend payment I received in May, this one was a whopper and it came from Enterprise Products Partners EPD, who paid me almost $80 this month.

[00:01:51]A really solid dividend payment. And when reinvested back into my EPD position, that gave me an extra two shares, which is great. But then with this payment and the last one from Lowe's combined, that's going to bring my total dividend income for the month so far to $98.57.

[00:02:06]Only two payments in and we're already almost at a hundred bucks. And as opposed to Lowe's, EPD has been performing pretty well lately. It's up 1 and a half percent in the past month, a decent little pop there. But year-to-date, 2026 has been great to EPD and so far it is up 20.7%.

[00:02:21]Some very strong performance. And looking at my position as I'm sure you can imagine that's going to leave me in great shape. I have 145.3 shares of EPD and an average cost of just below $26 per share. So, right now we're seeing a really nice gain. Just looking at the share price, I'm up 50% with this one. Including dividends, I'm up almost 80% and because this is such a high-yielding stock, I mean, right now you can get a 5.8% yield. My yield on cost is considerably higher, almost 9%.

[00:02:49]But either way, because it is such a high-yielding stock, that's really going to give you a nice boost on the total return there. Anyway, right now moving on to dividend payment number three.

[00:02:57]This one came from one of the monthly payers in my portfolio. This is Main Street Capital Corporation, who paid me $16.59 here in May. And when reinvested back into my main position, that added an extra third of a share. Pretty decent there and that's going to bring our total so far for the month to $115.16.

[00:03:15]And Main took a pretty big hit this past month, guys. It was down 5.1%.

[00:03:20]We briefly saw it get below $50 per share, which was pretty sweet. And I know a lot of you guys out there are buying Main Street Capital Corporation right now. I'm personally doing the same. I mean, just in the past couple of months, including the dividend reinvestments, I've added about 13 shares to my position. So, I'm steadily adding more to this one, which has been great. And as far as the drop goes, at least in the past month here, that's also probably earnings related. They did miss on both their revenue and earnings estimates, but they did manage to grow their revenue, grow their investment income and also their net asset value.

[00:03:51]While at the same time they also raised their regular dividend about 4%. So, a nice little raise there. They also announced another supplemental dividend on top of that that will be paid out in September. So, I think things could be worse under the hood with Main Street Capital Corporation. Going back to the share price performance though, year-to-date the stock is still taking quite a beating. It's down 17% just here in 2026. But, looking at my position I'm still up a little bit in terms of share price. I have 71.1 shares at an average cost of 43.29. So, we're seeing a slight gain still up about 20% just looking at the share price. So, it's pretty solid and including dividends we're up 45.6% and once again kind of like with EPD because this is a higher yielding stock.

[00:04:32]I mean, right now you could get about an 8% yield and I do believe this includes their special dividends. It looks like my average cost is a bit higher at 9.4% but once again that's going to give you a nice boost there on a total return basis. At any rate, now moving on to dividend payment number four. This one came from one of the other dividend kings in my portfolio. This one is Procter & Gamble and this month Procter & Gamble paid me $57.43.

[00:04:55]Not too shabby especially since it added 4/10 of a share to my P&G position. But, with this payment that's going to bring my total dividend income so far for the month to 172.59 and Procter & Gamble's performance this year has been pretty flat. It is down a bit in the past month. It's down 3.2% but year-to-date it's still, you know, barely hanging on in the green there.

[00:05:17]Basically flat. It's only up 1.3% so far. And I'm actually down a little bit on my Procter & Gamble position right now. My average cost is 144.21 which we can see is a little bit above the current share price. I have 53.1 shares.

[00:05:30]So, that's going to leave me down about half a percent just looking at the share price. Basically break even and with those dividends that's going to leave me up 6.4%. So, really nothing too crazy happening here with Procter & Gamble.

[00:05:41]Now, moving on guys this is going to bring us to payment number five. This This was kind of a slight payment, $17.65 from AbbVie, which when reinvested back into the position added almost a tenth of a share. And then with this payment from AbbVie, that's going to bring my total dividend income so far for the month to $190.24. We're almost at $200.

[00:06:00]And as far as the share price goes, AbbVie absolutely crushed it this past month. We can see that just in the past 30 days, it is up a whopping 8.8% sitting at almost $215 per share, but it is still down year-to-date. in 2026, AbbVie is down about 6.4%. But my position's still looking fantastic. My only regret with this stock is that I don't own more of it. AbbVie is a very small position in my portfolio. Right now, I have 10.3 shares at an average cost that is just looking really good.

[00:06:31]$116.67.

[00:06:32]So the current share price is almost a whole hundred dollars above my average cost per share. That's going to leave me up 83.8% just looking at the share price, but those dividends bring me over 100% on a total return basis. And including dividends, I'm up almost 110% with AbbVie, which is why I wish I owned more of it. It's been such a great investment. Now moving on, guys, this is going to bring us to dividend payment number six. This one came from the other monthly payer in my portfolio. This is Realty Income, the monthly dividend company. And this month, Realty Income paid me $30.21, which added almost a half a share back to my position when it got reinvested. I think next month, we could officially be at half a share. We'll see what happens.

[00:07:11]But this is going to bring my dividend income so far officially cross the $200 mark, and now we are sitting at $220.45.

[00:07:19]Now Realty Income also reported their quarterly earnings just a couple of weeks ago. And overall, I think it looked pretty solid. Probably the most important news to come out of the earnings was the 6.6% jump in AFFO per share. Pretty solid performance. So Realty Income just continues to fire on all cylinders. Nothing to see here, just the way we like it. And with that, the performance has been pretty flat in the past month. It was down basically half a percent, so really nothing to write home about there. Year-to-date though, you know, things are looking pretty decent with Realty Income. It's up almost 9% so far in 2026. And my position's doing pretty well. I have 112 shares at an average cost of $52.76, which is about $10 below the current share price. So, that's going to leave me up about 18% just in terms of share price. On a total return basis, including dividends, we're basically doubling this market return.

[00:08:07]So, all-time we're up 37.2%.

[00:08:09]guys, last but certainly not least, dividend payment number seven came from Williams Sonoma, who paid me $27.55 this month. And when reinvested back into the portfolio, that added another 0.14 shares to the position. And Williams Sonoma also reported earnings pretty recently. Very solid performance actually. Both revenue and earnings per share were up, and their comp sales were up about 5% too, which was great to see.

[00:08:32]And if we look at the share price performance, it's up 2.1% in the past month. Really nothing too crazy. It's kind of zigzagged, but we do see a nice little pop from the earnings news right here. So, that brought it back up to close to $200 per share. We'll see where it goes from here. But year-to-date, you know, Williams Sonoma's hanging in there. It's up 4.4%. Pretty moderate year. All-time though, as you already know if you've watched my videos, Williams Sonoma is by and large my best performing position. I have 36.24 shares at an average cost of $67.40. So, the current share price is just way above that. Just looking at the share price, I'm up basically 191.5% including dividends. I'm up over 200%.

[00:09:09]So, definitely the best performer. I'm up 201.32%.

[00:09:13]Not too shabby. But anyway guys, with that final payment from Williams Sonoma, that's going to bring my total dividend income for the month of May to exactly $248, which is only a slight gain compared to the same month last year. In May 2025, I brought in 240.01. So, that's a gain of 3.3%. The biggest difference between last year and this year is that in May of last year, I had an extra payment from Starbucks which came in at almost $50. So, even without that, I'm happy to see that we still made some gains year-over-year. And with the $248 from this month, that's going to bring my total income so far for the year to $1,739.81, which is a huge year-over-year increase, about 28 and 1/4%. This time last year for the first 5 months of 2025, I only brought in $1,356.

[00:10:01]So, that's a huge year-over-year jump.

[00:10:03]And what's really cool, guys, as we'll see in just a moment is that with the income I'll receive in June, by the end of that month, we'll be at over $2,000 for the first 6 months of the year, which means here in 2026, we're officially going to cross $4,000 in income. That's going to be a pretty cool milestone. But anyway, now just doing a little recap, these are all of this month's payments with the same amounts from the same period last year. And we can see there are a couple pretty solid year-over-year jumps. EPD was up 30 and 1/2% compared to this time last year.

[00:10:32]Main Street Capital Corporation was up about 18%. Procter & Gamble saw a huge jump just cuz I'd been contributing so much to it. But even Williams-Sonoma, which I didn't contribute a single dollar to outside of the slight dividend reinvestments, was up about 16%. So, most of that came from just the company increasing their dividend, raising it.

[00:10:49]But anyway, guys, that's what went down in May. And now with that behind us, I want to switch gears and show you which companies are going to be paying me in this upcoming month here in June. And like I said, we're going to be bringing in over $400 this month. It's going to be a great month of income. And to do this, guys, we are going to be looking at the dividend calendar tool over here on Snowball Analytics, which is hands-down my favorite portfolio tracker out there. You can check out Snowball Analytics for free. There's a link in the description to a 2-week free trial.

[00:11:15]Pretty much everything that we've seen in this video, the free spreadsheet, Snowball Analytics, and also Fiscal AI, you can find links to those down below.

[00:11:21]But look at all of these payments in June, guys. We're going to kick it off with a nice one from Visa, just over $20 on the 1st of June. The next day we'll get one from Zoetis for about $37. About a week later, we'll have Johnson & Johnson paying $55. Then it looks like we'll have a couple solid payments on the 10th, Chevron and Snap-on for 5773 and then 2221.

[00:11:43]Really nice day of dividends there. Then it looks like a few days later on the 15th, we'll get the monthly payers delivering their payments, almost $50 here just for the day. And then 9 days later on the 24th, we'll have about a $20 payment from ClearSecure. Couple days later, we should have one coming in from VOO for almost $32. It may end up being a bit more just because of the dollar cost averaging between now and then. And then we'll also have a special dividend coming in from Main Street Capital Corporation for $21.33.

[00:12:11]So they'll actually be paying twice next month, which is going to be awesome. And then we'll close out the month of June with a whopper of a payment from none other than SCHD.

[00:12:20]At this point in time, it says 14628, but that will likely go up over time as we continue to dollar cost average. And also, we'll see what their dividend payment for this quarter ends up being.

[00:12:30]I don't believe they've announced it yet. So it'll be interesting to see what this payment actually comes out to. And then when we add all of these up, the total for the month, at least at this point in time, should come out to about $460, which is pretty dang close to being like my best month of dividend income ever.

[00:12:46]It's only a couple dollars off from that. And I think we still could beat it. But we'll see what happens. But either way, June is shaping up to be an awesome month of dividends. And with that, if you're in the market for some cheap dividend stocks, then check out this next video right over here where I'm telling you about three of them that all look like great buys right now as we jump into June. So click right over here to check those out, and I'll see you in the next one.