Also answering your question, I hold Balanced Commercial Property Trust Ltd (BCPT) which pays monthly. Share price has been decimated recently, yield is 5.4% but this REIT is currently trading at 48.34% discountā¦
Unfortunately not. What you can do in the near future, after the release of the export feed to csv feature, is to import the dividend data into your spreadsheet and generate your graphs.
To be honest this shouldnāt be to difficult for the Freetrade team to implement, but would increase the app size, maintenance cost and wouldnāt add any revenue. Furthermore everyone would like to have different statistics/graphs related to their investments and portfolios and Freetrade wouldnāt be able to please all the users.
I am more interested is the possibility of Freetrade to integrate with a third-party portfolio management tool (there are some threads in the forum about this), or an API where I can consume this data. Maybe in the future
Since opening my FT ISA on 30/11/21 Iāve recieved Ā£222.03 in dividends.
September this year has been my best month to date with £93.87 being received.
Sure I have been heavily buying but good things happen if you stick at it.
Nowadays due to other commitments my share budget is lower, but am reaching a point where I can re invest the dividend and thereās enough there to get the snowball effect working
Iām in the exact same position as you of not being able to contribute anything but am lucky enough to have dividends coming in that allow me to continue investing. Youāre absolutely right, snowball effect will happen if you keep at it, only difference is the size in what snowballs people are able to manage depending on invested capital.
Iām also trying to be mindful of something I think Bitflip said about being wary of holding onto stocks in the hope that they recover as sometimes being an opportunity cost. Synthomer is one, Iāve made a huge loss on it but with them suspending dividends I decided to sell. For those I make a loss on, I will only invest in dividend paying ETFs, but having now invested in the latter with my Synthomer sale, I will already receive a bigger return from them than I would have done had I stuck with Synthomer! Itās not a uniform strategy with all companies of course, you have to make a judgement on which companies you think might be worth hanging onto and which ones to sell - hard decision even for seasoned investors, never mind amatuers like me!
As far as I know its up to individual investment companies, not the Govt. I may be wrongā¦
Just checked, it banned new investment, so Iām assuming if people had investments in Russia before Putin went nuts, and they kept them, then theyāll still be paid divsā¦
isnāt that easier if you pick high dividend ETF like Vanguard VHYL or iShares WQDS?
they are very well diversified by countries and industries. WQDS has additional quality filter; the companies must have low debt compared to asset and revenue growth. Makes your life way much simpler
Itās definitely easier to go with an ETF than individual stocks. I prefer trusts though because they have reserves so they can continue to pay out even if underlying holdings suspend dividends.
That said, aside from one relatively small investment, I tend to avoid income-focused funds altogether and I havenāt run a high-yield portfolio of individual stocks for the best part a decade.
I made one of the most common mistakes in investing ā chasing yield at the expense of capital growth. Iāve learned from that and now all I care about is total return.