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Alright financial gurus...I need help understanding dividend yield.


In one of my 401k's, I'm getting paid (reinvested) dividends that come out to almost roughly 11% of my holdings annually last year and seems to be on track this year. So when I started comparing funds, I obviously wanted to take this into account. However, every site I've looked at has the dividend yield at 1.45%.

I'm providing the link below to a site that has all of the dividend info. If you click on "Dividend History", you can see that for 2018 it paid out a total of $1.154 per share. This was definitely correctly reflected in my actual account. In other words, in 2018, I directly saw reinvested dividends used to purchase shares in an amount that totaled about 11%. So if I click on Dividend Yield, why is it so low? I'm not a financial guru, but I am pretty skilled in math...so I know I'm missing something really dumb. What am I missing?

Also, I know how people feel about these managed funds, so please don't turn this into a pissing contest about funds that are better. My options are limited in this 401k. But frankly, when you take dividends into account, this has been on par with the S&P.

Link: Dividends Fun


Posted: 06/23/2019 at 3:39PM



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