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Dividend Calculator

Project dividend income year by year, with or without reinvestment, and see how a growing dividend compounds into a growing yield on cost.

Position size

≈ $10,000.00 invested at $100.00 per share.

Dividend input

= 4.00% yield at $100.00 per share.

= $4.00 per share per year.

Payment frequency

Dividend growth is applied once at the start of each year. Share price growth is applied continuously — converted to a per-payment rate so the year still ends at exactly your annual figure.

Year 1 dividend income

$420.07

$105.02 per quarterly payment

Total dividends over 20 years

$13,962.67

reinvested, before they compound further

Final portfolio value

$18,241.01

101.00 shares × $180.61

Final total value

$18,241.01

shares plus $0.00 of cash dividends

Year 20 annual income

$1,071.50

$267.87 per quarterly payment

Yield on cost

4.0% → 10.7%

year 1 → year 20, on $10,000.00 invested

Reinvest vs collect the cash

Both columns start with 100.00 shares at $100.00 and receive exactly the same dividends. The only difference is whether each payment buys more shares.

Dividend reinvestment compared with collecting dividends as cash
MeasureWith DRIPWithout DRIPDifference
Final portfolio value$18,241.01$18,061.11$179.90
Cash dividends collected$0.00$13,887.70
Total value$18,241.01$31,948.81$-13,707.80 (-42.9%)
Total dividends received$13,962.67$13,887.70$74.96
Annual income, year 20$1,071.50$1,061.32$10.18 (+1.0%)
Yield on cost, year 2010.71%10.61%+0.10%

With these inputs reinvesting is worth $-13,707.80 versus banking the cash — dividends still compound the share count, but at a 3.0% share price growth rate the gap stays small. Both columns receive the identical dividends, so this is the whole difference.

Dividend income and portfolio value

Bars are income per year with and without reinvestment (left axis). The dashed line is portfolio value with reinvestment (right axis).

Year by year

Values at each year end, after that year's final payment. Shares are fractional because DRIP buys partial shares.

Year-by-year dividend per share, shares held, income, cumulative income and portfolio value with reinvestment, alongside the same figures without reinvestment
YearDiv / shareWith DRIPWithout DRIPExtra value
SharesIncomeCumulativeTotal valueSharesIncomeCumulativeTotal value
1$4.20100.04$420$420$10,304100.00$420$420$10,720$-416
2$4.41100.08$441$861$10,618100.00$441$861$11,470$-852
3$4.63100.13$464$1,325$10,941100.00$463$1,324$12,251$-1,310
4$4.86100.17$487$1,812$11,274100.00$486$1,810$13,065$-1,791
5$5.11100.21$511$2,323$11,618100.00$511$2,321$13,914$-2,296
6$5.36100.26$537$2,860$11,972100.00$536$2,857$14,797$-2,826
7$5.63100.31$564$3,425$12,336100.00$563$3,420$15,718$-3,382
8$5.91100.35$593$4,018$12,712100.00$591$4,011$16,678$-3,966
9$6.21100.40$623$4,641$13,100100.00$621$4,631$17,679$-4,579
10$6.52100.45$654$5,295$13,500100.00$652$5,283$18,722$-5,222
11$6.84100.50$687$5,982$13,912100.00$684$5,967$19,809$-5,898
12$7.18100.55$722$6,704$14,336100.00$718$6,685$20,943$-6,607
13$7.54100.60$759$7,463$14,774100.00$754$7,439$22,125$-7,351
14$7.92100.66$797$8,260$15,225100.00$792$8,231$23,357$-8,132
15$8.32100.71$837$9,097$15,690100.00$832$9,063$24,643$-8,952
16$8.73100.77$880$9,977$16,170100.00$873$9,936$25,983$-9,813
17$9.17100.82$924$10,901$16,664100.00$917$10,853$27,381$-10,717
18$9.63100.88$971$11,871$17,174100.00$963$11,816$28,840$-11,666
19$10.11100.94$1,020$12,891$17,699100.00$1,011$12,826$30,361$-12,662
20$10.61101.00$1,071$13,963$18,241100.00$1,061$13,888$31,949$-13,708

About this tool

This dividend calculator projects your dividend income year by year, with each payment modelled inside the year so reinvestment compounds the way it really does, and it reports the difference between reinvesting and banking the cash. It runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded, and no network request is made. The projection assumes dividend and share-price growth stay constant every year, so treat the results as a model of one scenario rather than a prediction of what any investment will do.

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