DIVIDEND INVESTING IN SOUTH AFRICA

Question on Dividend Investing in South Africa.
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Reader's mail:

I read your article on this dividend investing. I have been looking at this also for a long time, also as a passive income option, but have not started for the following reason.
To make this worth your while, you really have to buy a large amount of dividend shares. What does your investigations tell you?

 Thanks for your question F. Indeed, one needs tons of high dividend shares to make a sizeable dividend income in South Africa. We just don't have high enough dividends. But what makes the whole idea difficult to work is the fact that, most high dividend stocks/ shares are low growth. The most I have done on dividends is R15,000 per year. And that was when I kept the focus on it. But my shares were limited in general.

We also have high dividend exchange traded funds (SatrixDivi), which is out performed on growth by other ETF sectors like Satrix40 over a period of 5 years.

You may see how modest the growth of the dividend investment compared to the top 40 stocks in satrix in the graph below.

I will look into practical calculations of when Dividend Investing in South Africa is worth it. It will obviously depend on the amount of money that one has in stocks.

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