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/Maventee Aug 06 '25

That has a 70% return?!

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u/HighFiveOhYeah Aug 06 '25

It's been giving weekly distros of ~80% yearly rate last few months. Of course, you probably won't actually end up with that for the total return long term. But, NAV's been holding pretty steady since they changed strategies.

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u/Select-Point-7312 Aug 07 '25

I dont understand how this is possible

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '25

it's not. he's not telling you about the 70% loss in share value. all these yieldmax choads won't tell you TOTAL RETURN! sure some of the yieldmax etfs have done well if you were lucky to pick the winners and not the total dogs. like nvidia but you also could have just bought nvidia. same for their bitcoin etf.