Hey, Zach here!

I just gave an update on my personal dividend growth stock portfolio after a huge milestone. This marks 5 years of sharing my investment journey…

Today’s topics:

1. 5 Years of Dividend Investing (Portfolio Update)

2. Dividend News - Raises!

3. My New Buys

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The Key Story

My 5 Years of Dividend Investing ($30K ➜ $230K)

Five years ago I hit publish on my very first portfolio-update video. That account was worth $30,000 and kicked off just $86 in monthly dividends.

Fast-forward to today:

• Portfolio Value: $230,770

• Total Return (incl. reinvested dividends): +62.9 %

• Annual Dividend Income: $5,617

• Holdings: 10 high-conviction stocks

🔗 Watch the full portfolio update 

🛠️ What Drove the Growth?

• Consistent Contributions: Added ≈ $142K over 5 years — small, steady buys snowballed.

• Quality Over Quantity: Trimmed >50 positions down to 10 businesses I understand inside-out.

• Dividend Reinvestment: 100 % of payouts rolled back into shares (104 new shares of Altria alone).

• Blend of Strategies:

  • Dividend-Growth Pillars: Visa, Microsoft (double-digit payout hikes, strong total return)

  • High-Yield Accelerators: Altria, Exxon Mobil, MPLX (8 – 9 % yield plus moderate growth)

💡 5 Key Lessons From Year 1 → Year 5

1. Just Start — You will make mistakes, but time is your friend.

2. Know the Business — dividends flow from business earnings power.

3. Concentrate When Conviction Is High — big wins need meaningful weight.

4. Stay Flexible — prune losers, add to winners, adapt to new data.

5. Let Time Do the Heavy Lifting — compounding takes time, but is powerful.

🛍️ Latest Moves (May)

• 9 shares Alphabet (GOOGL) @ $150.99

• 10 shares of Hess Midstream LP (HESM) @ $36.87

The Bottom Line:

Small, repeatable steps + disciplined reinvestment turned a $30K starter portfolio into a $230K dividend machine in just five years. Hit play on the video to see every chart, holding, and lesson in detail.

👉 Watch the video

Dividend News

🚀 Dividend Raises This Week

It was a lighter week for dividend increases, but there were some notable names.

As an example Lowe’s, a historic great dividend growth stock, just raised it’s dividend again. However, growth is slowing…

Here’s the full list:

• DCI - Donaldson raises quarterly dividend by 11.1% to $0.30/share

• LOW - Lowe's raises dividend by 4.3% to $1.20

• EOG - EOG Resources raises dividend by 4.6% to $1.02

• HLNE - Hamilton Lane raises dividend by 10.2% to $0.54

• CSBB - CSB Bancorp increases dividend by ~3% to $0.41

• DMF - BNY Mellon Municipal Income raises monthly dividend by 310.5% to $0.078/share

Chart of the Week

Lowe’s, ticker symbol LOW, dividend growth is slowing with the 3 year CAGR now at +4.55%. This is a dramatic slowdown from a 10 year dividend CAGR at 15.67%. That said, the payment remains sustainable with a low payout ratio based on both free cash flow and net income.

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– Zach
Founder, Dividend Data

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