dividends

Shuffle Up and Deal :: Tweaking the Dividend Portfolio

Shuffle Up and Deal :: Tweaking the Dividend Portfolio

A few months back I had talked about how I was changing a piece of the puzzle with my dividend portfolio. At the time I was playing the waiting game on the final step of the process to sell my holding in the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index and redistribute those funds to the Vanguard …

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For FIRE, Not All Dividends Are Created Equal

Not All Dividends Created Equal

Over the last couple of weeks, I have had an internal debate on my approach to tracking dividends–and we have discussed it in some of the comments. Initially, when I started this blog and created a focused dividend portfolio, I only referenced the dividends generated from my new purchases–as well as a couple of long-standing …

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Goal Achieved :: $5,000 Projected Annual Dividend Income

Goal Achieved

One of the first things that I had done when I embarked on the process to build a dividend portfolio was to identify what my goals were going to be during my inaugural year of dividend growth investing. There are plenty of resources that stress how critical it is to write down your goals and …

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Dividend Portfolio :: Payback Percentage

Tracking Payback Percentage

It should hopefully come as no surprise at this point that I love spreadsheets, as I have recently made adjustments to my dividend spreadsheet to track monthly stock performance and annual forward dividend income. As I read blogs across the DGI community, I always keep an eye out for how people track their portfolios and …

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