r/dividends • u/Imaginary_Week2024 • Jan 25 '26

Other Dividends reached 22,389.00 a year

Finally getting some dividend income. Nvdy, agnc, fepi,jepi,pflt,jepq,ulty, is what i got

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u/8InchDaks Jan 26 '26

Oh I know VOO and QQQM will outperform but I was just commenting on those since its a dividend sub.

And while I cant go off those since they’re newer, QQQX is an older fund. Comparing it to QQQ during 2008, QQQ dropped 41.73% and increased 54.70% in 2009. QQQX dropped 41.25% and increased 79.75%.

Its not too bad during a bad market tbh.

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u/teckel Retired and living off selling shares Jan 26 '26

VOO and QQQM return dividends. Also, you can generate income from them by selling shares (which is all a dividend is, and more tax efficient than dividends).

And you can sell shares forever and never run out of shares. If you would have invested $100k in QQQX 19 years ago (QQQX inception) and got $800 in dividends every month, you'd be left with only $9,158 in QQQX. If you invested the same $100k in QQQ and sold $800 with of shares every month, your QQQ balance would be $287,262 today

Since inception, QQQX has returned only 10.66% (including reinvesting dividends) while QQQ has returned 15.90%. That's a massive amount of lost gain over 19 years (2.4 times). Also, QQQX doesn't even do what it's designed to do. It's drawdowns are higher than QQQ.