If you’re an income investor, it’s important to track how much your stock dividends are growing over time in your portfolio. Stock price movements matter little if you have no intention of ever selling the stock. As long as dividend payments continue unabated, the purpose of your investment is still sound, and you can continue holding the stocks through good times and bad.
Sometimes it’s helpful to look back over a longer time frame to see how much you’ve made in dividends over that period and perhaps compare the current dividend and yield with the amount and yield received at the time of purchase. This helps to assess whether that investment was worthwhile.
