Calculators, screens and reference guides we keep updated for income investors.
Calculators and models
- Dividend reinvestment calculator — model how DRIP compounding changes your income over 10, 20 and 30 years.
- How much to invest for $1,000 a month — the capital required at 3%, 4% and 6% yields.
- The $500 a month target and the $2,000 a month target.
- How to live off dividends — the withdrawal maths in full.
Reference guides
- Dividend withholding tax by country — treaty rates and reclaim procedures.
- Dividend terminology — ex-dividend, record and payment dates explained.
- Spotting safe high-yield stocks — the payout-ratio screen we use.
- Best broker for dividend investing in Europe.
Fund research
- SCHD, VYM, JEPI, JEPQ and QYLD — yield, performance and holdings for each fund.
- Best dividend ETFs 2026 — the full comparison.
Partner tools
Third-party services, not products of this site. A link here is not an investment recommendation, and outbound links may be commercial — check any provider yourself before you sign up.
- Easy Global Banking — a Swiss platform that helps high-net-worth clients open accounts in Switzerland and Singapore. Relevant if your dividend income arrives in several currencies and needs a multi-currency home. Account opening only; it is not a broker and does not hold securities.
- Lucky Digit Draw — a cryptographically random number generator for lottery lines, run entirely in the browser with no account and no stored selections. For entertainment only: random selection does not improve the mathematical odds of winning, and it has nothing in common with the compounding maths on the rest of this site.
Brokers
Brokers are compared here, not recommended. Best broker for dividend investing in Europe sets Interactive Brokers, Swissquote, DEGIRO, Saxo Bank and Trade Republic side by side on the six things that actually cost a dividend investor money: commissions, custody fees, FX spread, withholding-tax paperwork, DRIP availability and tax reporting. Two related guides finish the picture — withholding tax by country and fractional shares, which decides whether small monthly contributions can be fully reinvested.
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