@SmarterDividends
Dividend investing, run on real data
Every video runs a real simulation on the same data behind this site: month-end prices and every dividend actually paid. No predictions and no hype, just what happened, and a free tool to run it with your own numbers.
Watch15:57Can You Retire on SCHD? We Checked 14 Years of Real Data
We put $1,000,000 into SCHD at the end of 2011 and lived on the dividends alone, never selling a share, using every real month-end price and dividend through October 2026. Then we ran the same plan on VOO, on a retiree who started in 2021, and on JEPI.
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- First year's dividends (2012)$30,928
- Dividends in 2025$119,931
- Total paid, 2012 to Oct 2026$1,055,098
- Shares still worth (Oct 30, 2026)$4,098,511
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The Saturday email: which quality dividend stocks crossed below fair value, plus every raise and cut that week. 1 video so far, 6 views.