Mad Money Machine

GOT MOT. Dividend update

Hey what a day. Got our Motorola (MOT) at $22.25 at 10:30 this morning as promised for the Portfolio Smackdown. Then it rose 2.3% by the end of the day. Not a bad days work!

Here’s an update on some dividends recently paid out:
Vanguard Total Market (VTI) paid 0.526 per share or $85.21 to us
Vanguard Small Cap (VB) paid $0.01 per share (whoo hoo!) or $1.68 to us
Vanguard REIT (VNQ) paid $0.404 per share or $67.87 to us

Altria (MO) will pay $0.80 on 4/10/06
optionsXpress (OXPS) will pay $0.05 tomorrow
Sara Lee (SLE) will pay $0.198 on 4/7/06
Paccar (PCAR) paid $0.25 per share or $40.25 to us

I have decided to take the dividends as cash (to simplify the accounting) so that is where the money shows up. Also note that the %Gain of each stock does not therefore factor in the dividend paid by that stock.

Hey accountants: I’m open to ideas on how to make this all better!