• cheesepotatoes@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Dividends are typically an extremely low percentage and I wouldn’t be so bold as to say the majority of stocks pay out dividends. I have ~20 different tech companies (some large, some small) in my portfolio and only one of them pays out dividends, as an example.

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      4 months ago

      That’s not a good example. A lot of tech companies don’t pay dividends because they aren’t yet profitable. The share price fluctuates heavily because it’s all speculative.

      Longer term, profitable companies that pay consistent dividends are the bread and butter over a strong passive income generating portfolio. You can also get significant dividends just from index fund ETF.

      A million dollar portfolio can easily print $30000-$50000 a year in dividends depending on how it’s allocated

    • Neon 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼🇮🇱 @lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Tech Companies are the outlier.

      Invest in something more traditional and you’ll see that they do in fact pay out dividends

      That’s why i said it was the majority:

      The big shiny new tech ones don’t, but practically everyone else does