My K.I.S.S. Dividend Growth Portfolio: 3rd Quarter 2018 Update

Ummm, well, I guess don’t have much in the way of interesting or insightful introductory thoughts for this portfolio update. My portfolio just keeps chugging along producing more and more dividends. So let’s just proceed with the data.
First, if you wish to review my previous quarterly updates, you can find them here:
My K.I.S.S. Dividend Portfolio: 3rd Quarter 2017 Update My K.I.S.S. Dividend Portfolio: 4th Quarter 2017 Update My K.I.S.S. Dividend Portfolio: 1st Quarter 2018 Update My K.I.S.S. Dividend Portfolio: 2nd Quarter 2018 Update Review of Third-Quarter Dividends and Contributions These are the total dividends I received over the past three months and the comparison (in parentheses) to the same months during 2017:
July: $1,714.67 ($2,773.46) (-38.18%)
Aug: $7,195.88 ($4,782.60) (+50.46%)
Sept: $6,772.89 ($5,488.11) (+23.41%)
Total dividends collected in the third quarter of 2018: $15,683.44, an increase of 20.23% over the $13,044.17 I collected during the third quarter of 2017. $2,949.44 of this was immediately reinvested through DRIP plans in my Charles Schwab accounts.
In addition to this, $27,500 was added this quarter as my usual 401K contribution (I received two contributions this quarter), and $1,950 was added as catch-up contributions.
The K.I.S.S. System Over the past three years, I have been developing and refining my Keep It Simple, Stupid (K.I.S.S.) system for creating a dividend growth portfolio. The system I developed... Read more