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Dividend Calculator

This dividend calculator helps calculate how much income your stock portfolio will generate as it grows. This will help you determine your dividend yield and see how well your dividend stocks are performing. You can see how many shares you will have to have to reach a desired monthly dividend income.

How this dividend calculator works

You can enter the amount of shares you hold, as well as additional contributions and reinvestment. With a annual divident yield you can see how your portfolio will grow over time and the income it will generate as your stock positions increase. You can also see the dividend yield on stocks to calculate how much it pays out realative to the share price of the stock. This will help you compare the dividend yields across stocks to ensure you get the best performing stocks.

What is dividend yield?

The dividend yield measures the ratio of the annual dividends a company pays divided by the share price of the stock. This helps you calculate the expected return that you will receive on the share. Let’s work through an example. If a stock pays quarterly dividends of $2.50 and the share price is $100 per share then the dividend yield is 10% calculated as ($2.50 * 4) / $100 = 10%. This means that the expected return on the stock through dividends in a year is 10%. If you had a portfolio of this stock that was valued at $1.2 million dollars you would receive monthly dividends of $10,000.

Dividend Yield = Annual Dividens / Stock Price