I'm building a portfolio of dividend stocks that should eventually produce enough income to offset my expenses. Each month I buy more shares of companies that pay attractive and growing dividends as cash flows into my account from dividend payments and recurring transfers.

This month, I'm most excited to add to my positions in Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (NYSE: BIP), Energy Transfer (NYSE: ET), and NextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE). Here's why I can't wait to buy more of them this April.

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is already one of my larger positions, along with its corporate twin, Brookfield Infrastructure Corporation (NYSE: BIPC). However, I can't resist adding to my position this month because of how cheap the partnership units have gotten relative to the market and the shares of their corporate sibling. Partnership units were recently below $34 apiece, while the corporate shares traded over $46 each. Since they're economically equivalent, they pay the same dividend rate of $0.3825 per unit/share. That gives the partnership a 4.5% distribution while the dividend yield on the corporate shares is only 3.3%. 

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