Dividendista

It’s helpful to have goals. It’s also helpful to figure out the steps to get to those goals. That’s equally true for dividend investing. Let’s say you have a goal of paying all your bills with dividend income, building up enough capital that you can just live off the income. Unless you happen to come […]

I’m fairly Type A and prefer to plan whenever I can (even if things can go off the rails at any time). With each paycheck I put aside money for different things, particularly bills that are only paid once or twice a year. Being visual I find it helpful to put the bits of money […]

Dividend investment is an interesting effect. Consider this: With each dividend cycle that is reinvested in the same stock, each future dividend cycle gets a little larger. Let’s say one stock has a consistent 2.5% yield dividend so if you start with enough shares to receive $250 the first year, it would look something like […]

With potentially another 25-30 years until retirement on a traditional path, creating an accessible income stream sooner than that is interesting. There are many great potential investment opportunities and I’ll admit I didn’t do much math in the past. And I’ll have to admit that I forget sometimes that taxes also take a bit of […]

Consider this benchmarking approach. For example, a $100,000 mutual fund portfolio returned $1,300 to $1,500 in a mix of dividends and capital gains during 2016. It’s a mix of mutual funds that are well rated by MorningStar. Now compare this to the dividend returns from purchasing a stock directly. Disclaimer – This is not a […]

Welcome to Dividendista.com. I fluctuate in my interest in investing in stocks, usually working with a relative small number of shares. Recently I had a little extra space in my brain so I started reading more and am ready to get serious about investing. For retirement accounts I generally invested in mutual funds, because my […]