Today is Dividend Day.
The series where I teach you 5 things about dividend investing in less than 5 minutes.
1️⃣ $179.6 Million in Passive Income
Mark Zuckerberg currently owns 342.1 Million shares of Meta stock.
This week it paid out its $0.525 per share quarterly dividend.
That means Zuckerberg got a $179.6 Million dividend check.
This is the 7th quarter of Meta paying a dividend, and Mark Zuckerberg has now received a total of $1.23 Billion (Pre tax) from dividends on his Meta shares.
2️⃣ Top 10 Companies By Decade
Meta was one of the top 10 companies by market capitalization at the start of this year.
10 years ago, it wasn’t on that list.
The image below shows how the top 10 largest companies have changed over the decades.
3️⃣ An Investing Quote
Morgan Housel, author of The Psychology of Money, explains why dividends matter beyond the dollars.
To him, the highest return on money isn’t more stuff - it’s more control over your time.
Dividends buy you independence, one payout at a time.
“The ability to do what you want, when you want, with who you want, for as long as you want, is priceless. It is the highest dividend money pays.”
— Morgan Housel
4️⃣ 6 Types of Dividend Policies
Dividends are key to our investment strategy.
But not every company follows the same approach.
Here are the 6 main types of dividend policies you should know.
5️⃣ Example of a Dividend Stock
Let’s go back to Meta for our example of a dividend stock.
Meta builds social apps that billions of people use daily including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Meta makes money mainly from digital ads across its platforms, while also investing in virtual reality, the metaverse, and now AI for future growth.
Profit Margin: 40%
Forward P/E: 24.9x
Dividend Yield: 0.3%
Payout Ratio: 7.2%
Source: Fiscal.ai
That’s it for today!
Used sources
Interactive Brokers: Portfolio data and executing all transactions
Fiscal.ai: Financial data