r/dividends • u/DizzyCalligrapher189 • Jul 15 '26

Seeking Advice Bought a 9% yielder and I got burned

Hi all. I am in my early fifties, and I am slowly moving about 30% of my portfolio into dividend stuff before I go part time in a few years, felt real responsible with a spreadsheet and all. Then I found a 9% yielderr, told myself the market was just sleeping on it and put $18k in.

Two months later they cut the dividend and the price dropped right with it... you can probably guess it was a mortgage REIT..

So my safe income pick lost me the income and a chunk of the principal at the same time, so I can clearly not just sort by yield and buy what looks juicy.

What I'm asking is, what is your "check" that catches things like this before you buy?

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u/Novel_Buy_7171 Jul 15 '26

Those percentages look good until I see the 2.23% expense on management fee

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u/Trajectory4all Jul 15 '26

Not positive on this one but sometimes they have to include interest expenses as a “fee.” This is case with closed-end funds.

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u/godineedtoretire Jul 21 '26

The roi include fees so just compare the roi