Dividend Income

Welcome to my Monthly Dividend Income statements!

I am presenting you with all my dividend income since I started tracking them and since I took control of my investments. I use a spreadsheet to track all my dividend income and portfolio performance and share a guide to building your own dividend tracker.

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Dividend income is a true form of passive income where you earn money in your sleep. Up until 2013, my portfolio was setup with high yield stocks mostly but I realized that dividend growth holdings perform better for both stock appreciation and dividend growth and you can see how the growth accelerated below.

Dividend income is only one part of the journey. In fact, it’s only needed when you need to live from the income but you also need dividend growth to beat inflation.

I break down my strategy as follow:

• Accumulation Phase = high dividend growth stocks (usually lower yield and lower income). I expect the dividend growth to be over 10%.
• Retirement Phase = the financial independence nirvana with dividend income but not high dividend yield with no growth. The market yield will generally be between 3%-4% with a dividend growth over 5%.

To succeed in my strategy, I invest by looking at key data points provided by the Dividend Snapshot Screeners and seleting strong toll booth stocks for resilient businesses.

The simple approach has given me an annual return since 2009 of 12%.

2021 Dividend Income

2020 Dividend Income

2019 Dividend Income

2018 Dividend Income

2017 Dividend Income

2016 Dividend Income

2015 Dividend Income

2014 Dividend Income

2013 Dividend Income

2012 Dividend Income

2011 Dividend Income

2010 Dividend Income