hey everyone welcome back to the channel
so in today's video i'm going to share
seven dividend stocks that pay me
thousands of dollars per month to own
these stocks and most of these i've had
my portfolio for quite a while now but
we've been seeing a really big shift
from tech stocks uh rotating into a lot
of these like more traditional value
stocks uh and a lot of these do end up
paying dividends so i'm gonna share uh
kind of like each one of these break it
down why i own them uh but of course as
you probably already know by now i'm not
a financial advisor this is certainly
not any type of advice i'm just
you know sharing some of my personal
opinions here and some of the stocks
that are in my portfolio also before we
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so let's get into the video we first
need to understand just a really brief
reason why companies pay dividends
because this is going to help you
understand uh like what you can set
expectations for because there's things
called dividend traps there's all kinds
of other problems and then we'll go into
these seven dividend stocks but this is
really important don't skip this part
trust me um so you need to understand
why companies pay dividends so basically
when a company makes money they have a
couple of options of what they can do
with those profits option number one is
they can take the money that they make
uh over the course of a year and they
can reinvest that back into uh like you
know making new products or like
research and development or maybe like
for example when uh apple makes money
they will reinvest a lot of that back
into making the next iphone and the next
ipad and the next mac right so companies
can reinvest it back into the business
and not pay the shareholders at all
option two they can do things like share
buybacks where basically you end up
owning more of the company because they
decrease the amount of shares in the
pool as a whole and then there's another
option which is paying out essentially
cash payments or dividends uh usually on
a quarterly basis to shareholders so
dividends can be a great way to make
some money in the stock market but you
also have to keep in mind sometimes it
means that you know like the company
tends to be mature they're making money
and so they think the best way to get
that money back to the shareholders is
just to give it a cash payment um
instead of like reinvesting it back into
the business so you want to make sure
that dividends are sustainable in a
stock if you see a dividend where it has
a yield of like 15 or 20 percent
typically that's going to be something
called a dividend trap and you want to
be aware of those i've fallen into those
when i first started investing so make
sure that if a company's paying a
dividend that they can sustain that
dividend payment um and don't just fall
for the ones that have like really high
payments because sometimes they can be
big big dividend traps okay so the first
dividend stock
that i invest into is jpmorgan chase so
this is essentially the largest uh bank
in the united states um and there's a
couple of reasons why i like j.p morgan
um so right now they pay about a 2.5 2.6
yield uh as a dividend on their stock so
essentially you're getting about four
dollars in dividends per share of
jpmorgan over the course of a year um so
two and a half percent while it might
feel a little bit low for dividend
stocks right now at the current market
environment i think it's actually one of
the best options in terms of dividend
payments uh i remember back to when i
started investing in dividend stocks in
literally 2009 2010 2011 and dividends
were like eight nine ten percent on a
lot of these companies that's just
because the stock price was a lot lower
than and now stocks are a lot higher
because of the market conditions um and
so
2.6 i believe is actually a pretty good
uh payment uh for a company like
jpmorgan and so the final reason why i'm
just gonna like explain why i have this
in my portfolio is because i think they
are one of the best positioned financial
institutions in the country right now uh
if you look back to the financial crisis
back in 08 they actually bought bear
stearns at like two dollars a share they
were one of the best uh companies in
terms of the amount of cash that they
have on their balance sheet um and so
they do have that that likes feeling of
security uh for consumers uh and also
for investors knowing that they are not
like overstretched you know like like
some of these other uh ones like lehman
brothers for example back in the day um
was kind of overstretched with some of
their different things and they ended up
you know going bankrupt um so jp morgan
that's why i like it uh if you had a
hundred shares of jp
and was paying four dollars per share as
a dividend that'd be about four hundred
dollars per year in dividends if you
owned 100 shares and you can see how
that scales up of course you own a
thousand shares you're getting like four
thousand dollars per year um if you own
you know 10 000 shares get like 40 000
per year so it certainly scales up
pretty quickly there okay let's talk
about the next dividend stock that is in
my portfolio i'm a little bit biased on
this one uh but it's a company called
air products so on an annual basis air
products pays about six dollars and 48
cents per share uh in dividends so it
comes out to about two and a half or two
point six percent kind of similar to jp
morgan at the moment although the stock
price has come down a bit about 15
uh so far year to date so actually that
yield is going up now it's 2.6 maybe if
the stock falls a little bit more it
might go up to three percent uh and i'm
actually getting a little bit excited
about that to potentially buy some later
on down the road um so air products
essentially what it is it's based in
pennsylvania so that's why i'm a little
bit biased because i've understood this
company for a while i grew up around it
so i was able to see kind of how the
company has been moving along over the
past couple of decades here um so air
products essentially it's a very boring
business it's not like a consumer-facing
business uh so typically when uh
like manufacturers or any type of
industrials need certain types of uh
gases uh they are going to call up their
products and buy it from them so very
boring like i said but i think they have
a really great moat uh they definitely
don't have a monopoly but they have a
pretty good moat um and they're doing
some really big projects with hydrogen i
think they're one of the leading uh
companies in in the hydrogen market uh
and also in the helium market um so
basically yeah like for example let's
say that the ford plant uh in detroit
needs liquid nitrogen or they need
oxygen or they need like
maybe some other type of random gas uh
to manufacture something they end up
buying it from air products they have a
couple of competitors but overall i
think it's a pretty good business um
it's it's something that is pretty
resilient even like if for example
consumers don't spend as much as long as
they're still manufacturing and
industrials it's a company that i think
is is pretty well hedged uh in in that
case um and they are pulling in billions
of dollars they have some pretty solid
uh profit margins and like i said the
stocks down about 15 percent on the year
even though they're still pulling in so
much cash and so that's why i'm getting
excited to hopefully buy some more uh
throughout this year i'm gonna average
into it as well but air products uh once
once again like i said about a two and a
half or two point six percent yield uh
on that stock so if you had 100 shares
of air products you'd be making about
648 dollars per year in dividends um
from owning that stock so it's one of
the ones in my portfolio let's move on
to the third dividend stock in my
portfolio and it's one that you might be
pretty familiar with which is pepsico so
uh pepsi you know obviously a competitor
to coca-cola i don't think i have to
really explain what they do so let's
just talk about their dividend here so
pepsi pays out about a 4.30 dividend
over the course of a year obviously this
is coming out in four quarterly payments
so you can just divide four dollars and
thirty cents divided by four to see what
you'll be making on a quarterly basis uh
and this actually in line with air
products and in line with jpmorgan comes
out to about two and a half percent
yield based on the stock price it
promises could be some other ones in
here that are a little bit higher or
actually another one that's me a little
bit lower as well um but pepsi look uh
they had a couple of uh meetings
recently where they explained that yes
they're gonna be raising the prices uh
some by at least 10 percent they're
gonna be raising their prices on some of
their products and they feel as though
they have really solid pricing power and
uh they feel as though uh they can
certainly raise those prices without
consumers uh you know cutting back on
costs and not buying their products so
this means that pepsi is able to
hopefully pass their rising cost because
you know there's a lot of inflation
right now hopefully they're able to pass
those on to uh consumers um and also
something interesting about the beverage
industry i mean coca-cola and pepsi
really almost have a monopoly on the
industry because any time that a new
beverage company pops up one of them
will just buy it up like for example
like like gatorade and powerade and like
honest tea and basically every drink
brand in like the grocery store that you
see it's either owned by coca-cola or
pepsi so alternatively you know it like
coca-cola i would feel just as safe
having that in my portfolio as well uh
those two companies are very similar and
they also pay some pretty similar uh
dividends as well so the next dividend
stock is one of the uh oldest stocks in
my portfolio of all time and it's a
company called ppl uh and so this is uh
an electric company in pennsylvania
essentially where i grew up um and so
they're paying i think a dollar 66 per
share as a dividend which comes out to
about uh 5.6 or 5.7
yield on this stock as a dividend on an
annual basis um and so i've owned this
stock for uh almost like 10 years now
i've i've this is like one of the first
stocks that i ever invested into um and
i can tell you that their dividend
payment has been very stable over the
course of my investing career so over a
decade they've been paying usually
around that yield is around like five
percent of course you know if there's an
economic downturn and the revenue
declines their profits decline then you
know they probably will have to slash
that dividend uh but for my investing
career they've held it up and so it's
not a crazy growth stock it's not one
that you know has 10x in the past few
years uh but it's one that i feel pretty
stable with i understand the industry
and so i do like to have it as a part of
my portfolio and it does have that
higher yield compared to some of the
other ones on this list um but you know
with that of course there is some risk
as well looking at the the utility
industry as a whole there can be a lot
of risks like energy prices and all
kinds of other things that that could
affect companies like ppl so the next
stock in my portfolio that pays a
dividend is waste management i've also
been investing in waste management for a
pretty long time uh and they pay out two
dollars and sixty cents per share per
year uh so this comes out to you know
whatever 2.60 cents is divided by four
that's about what uh uh 65 cents per
quarter um and so this comes out to like
1.6 so it's not extremely high it's not
one that's like you know giving you 10
yields uh but i think overall this is an
industry that i feel very safe with
especially you know potentially going
into uh slower economic growth this year
which you know looking at the macros
like i i definitely have some concerns
um and so uh you know people are always
gonna have to pay for waste management
people are always going to pay to uh
have their their trash their garbage and
their recycling taken care of they're
not gonna just throw it in their
backyard
and so waste management has a pretty
good setup there and really when you
look at their competitors they have a
company i believe it's called republic
services
but other than that you know they just
have some small regional competitors but
overall i think they have a really good
grab on the entire industry in the
united states and they're doing some
really big interesting projects with
things like biofuels and all kinds of
other things that they're really pouring
back into r d um so that's why they're
paying a little bit of a lower dividend
because they still do have really nice
profit margins overall the stock has
been killing it for the past like five
or ten years um i remember when the
stock was like thirty dollars a share
now it's up you know well over a hundred
dollars um but yep it's one that i like
to have in my portfolio okay so another
one that i have in my portfolio is exxon
mobil um so i think it's important to
have some type of energy in a portfolio
um and i was conflicted on this for a
while because you know i didn't want to
like
put all my money into an industry that's
dying and also you know not the most
environmentally friendly uh but i did
realize at one point that i wanted to
have a nice hedge and make sure that my
portfolio was well-rounded and i'm glad
that i did that i'm glad that i did
invest a little bit of my money into the
energy sector because you know if you
look so far year to date uh energy
stocks are up like 30 percent and tech
stocks are down like 30
so it does give some layer of security
you'll notice that like all the stocks
in this portfolio in the dividend
portfolio are very different in
different industries and that's for a
reason i don't want to have all my eggs
in one basket all in tech or all in
banks or all in you know energy i like
to have it pretty spread out so exxon
mobil they actually pay a pretty solid
dividend they're paying over four
percent um and so what you're going to
be getting per share on an annual basis
is 3.52 cents uh per year which comes
out to like i said about four and a half
percent yield now actually this was
actually like an eight percent dividend
last year um but it's lower now because
the stock essentially doubled uh just in
the past like four or five months um so
that's why it's uh the yield has gone
down a lot um but nonetheless you know i
think it's it's like i said important to
have exposure to the the energy industry
i also have a number of other stocks as
well uh but what you'll notice is that
uh companies that may be like a solar
company or a wind company while i do
have some of those in my portfolio
they're not paying out dividends um
because usually they're not profitable
um and they are a lot riskier as well um
so that's why i like having a portion of
my assets in something like this now
there are alternatives to that as well
like shell or bp or chevron or hess
there's so many different energy
companies out there but exxon mobil i
felt as though had the best cash
producing ability um and also the the
best hedge in my portfolio to make sure
that it stays somewhat stable um so the
final dividend stock that i want to
share with you here today is one that i
think sounds kind of funny saying this
um but it is a railroad company called
union pacific so
people usually just don't think about
railroads uh because they feel as though
you know this is something from 150
years ago and investing into a railroad
it sounds weird because you know they're
not really making more railroads in the
united states uh most of that has
already been done and if anything
they're closing certain types of
railroad paths but the truth is that you
know you have to realize that it's
actually really inexpensive to ship
shipping containers uh via rail compared
to like 18 wheelers and tractor trailers
um and so a company like union pacific
is paying a 4.72 cents per share on an
annual basis uh so that comes out to
about 1.95 yield uh as a dividend on
this railroad stock but actually the
stock is up i believe like you know five
or six hundred percent just in the past
uh i don't know time frame you know that
is specifically but just in the past
like five to ten years so it's up quite
a bit which is a little bit concerning
uh because you know i don't like buying
stocks when they're up so much um but if
you look at their balance sheet if you
look at the amount of money that they're
producing a lot of it is because there's
just so much coming in from china and
from other countries that we're
importing now and so we need to utilize
the railroads so much
where you know a lot of things will come
into like the la portes for example
it'll go straight to the rail yard and
it'll get shipped out throughout the
country rather than just like trucking
that out it just wouldn't really make
much sense economically also there's a
lot of products like uh for example
lumber and you know like all kinds of
different products that you don't want
to uh ship on a truck or you can't ship
on a truck and you have to use railroads
so they actually have a pretty good
setup there i believe and honestly it's
not really going anywhere uh in in the
next like couple of decades we're gonna
be using rails uh for quite a while
unless we start building tunnels uh and
find that to be economical which i don't
think is gonna be the case so those are
the dividend stocks that pay me a couple
thousand dollars per month um you know i
feel pretty safe with these of course if
stocks go down a lot uh and if we have
some type of market crash i'm probably
gonna end up just buying more because
these are companies that are pulling in
cash most of these can pass on a rising
cost of inflation to their customers and
so that's why i honestly sleep pretty
well at night holding some of these
stocks all right so thanks for watching
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