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While there are many different ways to earn passive income, one of the most popular ways is by investing in shares. Shares in reliable companies can provide returns in the form of both price appreciation and dividend payments.
Benefiting from dividends
Dividend-paying shares are those in companies that pay their investors a small percentage of their profits each year. Unfortunately, dividend yields are usually quite small – typically between 2 to 8%. Consequently, earning a meaningful passive income from dividend shares requires quite a large investment.
Those who haven’t won the lottery or received a healthy inheritance will need to save up. Luckily, the magic of compound returns helps to make this easier. A large investment can be built up over time with small monthly contributions.
Crunching the numbers
Dividend yields fluctuate regularly and differ from company to company, so it’s difficult to say exactly how many FTSE 100 shares I’d need for £1,000 of passive income a month. However, I can use historical data to estimate how many dividend-paying shares on average could achieve that amount.
Let’s consider a few stocks as an example.
The telecoms giant
Vodafone Group (LSE:VOD) pays an exceptionally high dividend yield of 11.5%. This is almost double the average FTSE 100 dividend yield of around 6%. At first glance, I might consider this a good addition to a dividend-paying portfolio.
But a high dividend yield alone is no guarantee of returns.
Companies can choose not to pay their annual dividends at any time. If annual earnings are lower than expected, a company is likely to withhold a dividend for that year.
In the case of Vodafone, earnings are expected to decline by an average of 51% over the next three years. I believe this could reduce the chances of dividends being paid.
The biotech innovator
AstraZeneca (LSE:AZN), by comparison, has a much smaller dividend yield of 2.2%. However, the company has an excellent track record of paying dividends. Its next dividend of 156p per share is due in about a month.
AstraZeneca is also estimated to be trading below fair value, by around 32%. But unlike Vodafone, earnings are forecast to grow by 16% per year going forward.
Checking forecasts from analysts, it looks like the majority agree that the share price will increase by an average of 26% in the next 12 months.
I think this makes AstraZeneca a more reliable addition to my portfolio of dividend-paying shares.
So how many do I need?
With an average yield of 6%, I would need about £195,600 worth of shares to earn £1,000 a month. Since I don’t have that much, I’d need to save up this amount over some time.
Let’s say I begin by buying 10,000 shares in various companies at an average price of £10 each.
I then commit to buy a further £350 worth of shares each month.
I would estimate I can achieve a 5% annual return (a fairly conservative average for the FTSE 100).
By adopting a dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP) to compound my gains and estimating a 1% annual dividend increase, I could reach my goal in just over 23 years.
At that point, I would have bought approximately 19,660 shares at an average price of £10.
To have a perfect portfolio to generate $1000/month in dividends, one should have at least 30 stocks in at least 10 different sectors. No stock should not be more than 3.33% of your portfolio. If each stock generates around $400 in dividend income per year, 30 of each will generate $12,000 a year or $1000/month.
If you like the idea of earning passive income, one idea to make $5,000 per month is to rent out things for money. This is probably the best option if you're very busy with your job and don't have time to start a new side hustle.
You'll typically pay: A platform charge or account fee (with HSBC's Global Investment Centre account, the annual account fee is 0.25%) An ongoing fund charge (fund providers typically charge between 0.05% and 0.2%)
In a market that generates a 2% annual yield, you would need to invest $600,000 up front in order to reliably generate $12,000 per year (or $1,000 per month) in dividend payments. How Can You Make $1,000 Per Month In Dividends? Here are the steps you can take to build yourself a sufficient dividend portfolio.
A stock portfolio focused on dividends can generate $1,000 per month or more in perpetual passive income, Mircea Iosif wrote on Medium. “For example, at a 4% dividend yield, you would need a portfolio worth $300,000.
You can produce $500 a month in passive income through savings accounts, certificates of deposit, stocks, bonds, funds and other investment vehicles. Each offers varying rates of return, degrees of safety, convenience, and liquidity.
Buy the index or pick individual stocks for passive income
Right now, the average dividend yield on the S&P/TSX 60 Index is around 3.11%. If you just bought the index, you would need to invest $154,340 to earn an average of $400 per month. Fortunately, you can do even better by picking individual stocks.
One simple strategy is to invest in two types of assets: closed-end funds (CEFs) and real estate investment trusts (REITs). A CEF is a type of mutual fund that can be bought and sold like a stock on an exchange. Some CEFs specialize in high-yield bonds. Others own preferred stocks and dividend stocks.
Yes, American investors can invest in the FTSE 100. The best way to do this is to invest in exchange-traded funds. There are funds that focus on replicating, tracking, and shorting the companies of the index. Examples include iShares Core FTSE 100 UCITS, Vanguard FTSE 100 UCITS, and HSBC FTSE 100 UCITS.
You can't invest in the FTSE 100 directly, but you can invest in an index fund or exchange-traded fund (ETF). This can be a good option if you want exposure to all of the companies in the index without having to buy individual shares. These funds and ETFs track the performance of the stocks in the FTSE 100.
To generate $500 a month, you might need to build your investments to $150,000. Taking out 4% each year would amount to $6,000, which comes to $500 a month.
To generate $5,000 per month in dividends, you would need a portfolio value of approximately $1 million invested in stocks with an average dividend yield of 5%.
If you were to invest in a company offering a 4% annual dividend yield, you would need to invest about $900,000 to generate a monthly income of $3000. While this might seem like a hefty sum, remember that this investment isn't just generating income—it's also likely to appreciate over time.
Well, there is no limit to how much you can make from stocks in a month. The money you can make by trading can run into thousands, lakhs, or even higher. A few key things that intraday profits depend on: How much capital are you putting in the markets daily?
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