Paying Dividends

I will be collecting dividends from BBSI & CHKE next week. Not sure what the overall yield is on my portfolio, I'd guess around 1.5%. Not that paying dividends makes a stock a "good" stock, but to see a stock begin paying dividends (such as BBSI recently announced (BBSI Declares First Quarterly Cash Dividend)) or to see a stock increase their dividends (Cherokee Announces December Quarterly Dividend Increased to $0.75 Per Share) is a sign that the company is feeling upbeat about the future (as it is painful to reduce or stop dividends).

Let us see, here are the divdends for my MFI stocks:

ANF 1.0%
ASEI none
BBSI 1.1%
CHKE 6.9%
DLX 4.1%
ELX none
EZEN none
FDG 13.9%
FTO 0.4%
HW none
ISNS none
KG none
MGLN none
MSTR none
MTEX 2.1%
ORCT none
OVTI none
PACR 2.0%
PGI none
PNCL none
PONR none
PTEN 1.2%
RAIL 0.4%
TBL none
TGIS 2.2%
TRLG none
UST 4.0%
VPHM none

Hmm, looks like my 1.5% was pretty close. It was better when I had PCU (10.4%).

Here is a list of my stocks and their performance

Current Portfolio
Stock	Cost	Current	Gain
PNCL	$6.68	$10.06	50.6%
UST	$39.36	$56.42	47.7%
ASEI	$45.85	$63.29	38.0%
TGIS	$10.34	$13.75	34.9%
MSTR	$94.36	$125.96	33.5%
BBSI	$19.56	$24.40	25.1%
CHKE	$37.55	$43.45	20.9%
MTEX	$13.11	$15.15	16.8%
ELX	$17.85	$20.76	16.3%
ANF	$61.13	$70.51	16.2%
MGLN	$38.34	$43.29	12.9%
VPHM	$11.80	$13.10	11.0%
BLDR	$15.91	$16.99	6.8%
PGI	$7.71	$8.20	6.3%
FTO	$28.76	$29.72	3.7%
ISNS	$13.17	$13.01	-1.2%
PTEN	$26.72	$26.05	-2.1%
RAIL	$58.18	$56.25	-3.2%
DLX	$26.36	$24.56	-3.4%
KG	$17.31	$16.55	-4.4%
TBL	$34.50	$32.12	-6.9%
PACR	$32.53	$29.81	-7.0%
PONR	$30.98	$28.24	-8.8%
TRLG	$17.02	$15.38	-9.6%
ORCT	$11.83	$10.43	-11.8%
HW	$33.04	$23.45	-29.0%
OVTI	$27.79	$18.42	-33.7%
FDG	$34.03	$20.80	-34.2%
EZEN	$2.84	$1.82	-35.8%
Current Gain/Loss ($)			$15,124
Current Gain/Loss (%)			4.6%
Sold Gain/Loss ($)			$10,050
Sold Gain/Loss (%)			25.0%
Total Gain/Loss ($)			$25,173
Benchmark Gain/Loss ($)			$31,293
Annual IRR			14.0%
Total Gain/Loss (%)			8.0%