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Connecting the dots on dividends

Dividend math, crunching the numbers

dividendista — July 5, 2017

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 […]

Organizing savings before investing

dividendista — May 20, 2017

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 Reinvestment as Dividend Compounding Effect

dividendista — January 28, 2017

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 […]

Dividend Prioritization: Yield after taxes

dividendista — January 17, 2017

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 […]

The benchmarking wakeup call

dividendista — January 12, 2017

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 […]

Introductions and getting setup

dividendista — January 12, 2017

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 […]

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