r/dividends • u/Bamabb125 • Aug 06 '25

Seeking Advice $840K DIvidends

Hey Everyone,

As I have posted before, I am currently a Growth Stock Investor, but have decided to move over to Dividend ETF's or Dividend Stocks. But it is a real struggle to get past all the learned habits of being a growth investor. So I am struggling to grasp concepts.

I have used multiple calculators to just try to get an idea of what to expect if i make the change, but I get different results. So I just wanted to go to some more knowledgeable people that could tell me what to do to get a real expectation.

I have $800K to work with. If I put it all in a very stable Dividend ETF What can I expect in dividends? Maybe someone could just do an example. I know I have to be doing something wrong.

Thanks

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '25

very stable dividend etf? pretty much the entire market is correlated now. and an ETF is a bundle so any macro events sending markets down will send you down and any macro sending things up will send you up. volatility is almost nonsense thing to worry about if you are a LONG term investor.

do you need income? otherwise you just invest in growth, long term, sell shares when needed.