 Hey, what's up you two? I'm Zeke and welcome to The Dream Green Show. In this episode, I'm going to show you guys exactly how much money I made in dividends from a $350,000 portfolio. Now, I know what you're saying, that's a lot of money. And trust me, I did not come for money. I don't come for money, but I am a hustler. I am a bona fide hustler. I'm going to find a way to make some money. And when I got my first dividend payment, I had around a $60, maybe a $75 portfolio. That's it. I only had around $60 to $75 inside of my portfolio when I got my very first dividend check to hit my account. It was for like 37 cents. And I looked at it and I was like, what is this? This notification came through my phone that I got 37 cents, deposited into my account. I did not know what a dividend was at the time. I was like, hey, I did absolutely nothing at all. And I got paid money inside of my account for doing nothing. Let me do a little bit more research on dividends. So once I looked at dividends, I found that the dividends are companies that pay out money back to their investors as a form of saying, hey, thank you for investing inside of our company. This is a little benefit to kind of persuade you guys to invest inside our company that we're going to give you guys a little check. And as we give you guys this check for investing inside our company, for being investors in our company, we hope that you reinvest your dividends back inside of our company so that we can continue to grow this company. And when I found out that, hey, you're going to pay me just for investing inside your company, that this is by far the most passive form of income there is, I started this YouTube channel on dividend investing. And I dug in deep to learn everything about dividends there is. So that is what a dividend is. Dividends are either paid out monthly, quarterly or yearly. Most of them pay out monthly or quarterly. And I went from receiving just my very first paycheck in dividends, one dividend check. But now in the month of September, I received 26 dividend checks. And boy, can I tell you that it is sweet. And I, and I absolutely love it because in a video I made just nine months ago, I said, Hey, if I could start all over again, this is how I would dividend invest. I made the change. And I'm going to show you guys how it benefit my portfolio and how it took off and grew over time from just these smaller details that I'm going to tell you guys throughout this video. So if you don't want to miss out on that, make sure you hit the thumbs up button so you don't miss out on any crucial information. Also hit that subscribe button. But before we dive into this video is brought to you by Moomoo. Go ahead and click the link down in the description Moomoo offer commission free investing. You do not have to pay at all to buy or sell or trade any of your stocks. 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And on my Weeble account, I'm sending that $235,246.37. So that's around $349,900. But I'm going to deposit $20 tomorrow to make it $350,000, right? So here we are back on my Robin Hood account. Over the last week, we've been doing pretty good up 2.3% down on the month. But over the last three months, I'm still down 2%. But over the last year to date, since I made this change a little bit over nine months ago, I am up 33.62%. And the change that I made is that I've been investing inside dividend aristocrats and dividend kings. Now I have to tell you what dividend kings and dividend aristocrats are because they did pay off some of my dividends. So I'm going to let you guys know what they are. So let me explain what they are. First dividend aristocrats are companies that are inside the S&P 500 and increase their dividend yield. Dividend yield is how much dividends these companies pay back. They do not all pay back the same amount. Some of them have a small dividend yield of 1%. Some of them have a very large dividend yield of 10%. The lower dividend yield is more stable. The higher dividend yields are more risky. So dividend aristocrats are companies that are inside the S&P 500, which are usually pretty stable companies and have increased their dividends every single year for the last 25 years. And dividend kings are companies that are inside the S&P 500 and have increased their dividends every single year for the last 50 years. So that's longer than most of us even been alive. I mean, they've increased their dividends through recessions. They increased their dividends through pandemics. These are pretty solid companies and that what I have been investing into to help kind of boost my portfolio to help me see these large gains. So we take a look. Let's go to my history and then hit dividends. Let's scroll all the way down. Remember, we're looking at the month of September. Had a pretty good month. Now the first one, I'm going to point out a couple of these to y'all. V is a visa. I had a little lesson to share. I think I got it for free and they paid me out one cent. WTRG paid me out a dollar and 54 cents. WMT is Walmart. I absolutely love this company. Got 10 shares. They pay out 57 cents per share. So they pay me out $6.08. Walmart is a dividend aristocrat or it could be a dividend king. Let me double check on that. Look in the description. I'll let you guys know what it is down in the description. We got Johnson and Johnson. Johnson and Johnson is for sure a dividend king. I own one share. They pay out a dollar and 19 cents per share. They are quarterly paying dividend stock. I think they've been increasing their dividends for like the last 60 years or something like that. Johnson and Johnson is very stable. I need more of them inside my portfolio. SHW, Sherman Williams paid me out 60 cents per share. So 61 cents. I own one share of Sherman Williams paint company. AGNC is a real estate read. They pay me out $14.28. MMM is also a dividend king guys. I own four shares of 3M paying out $1.50 per share, quarterly paying dividend stock. So I receive $6.03 from MMM. MMM make everything from duct tape, sticky notes, the face mask, everyone wears everything. 3M makes everything. So if you ever bought anything ever in life, 3M probably made it. Absolutely love this company. There are dividend kings. I need more of them. In fact, I do have more of them. Just pay attention to this later in the video. I have more of 3M inside of my Weibo account. All right. So that's 3M. Microsoft love Microsoft. They pay me out $5.03. Everyone knows what Microsoft is. Here we go. ticker symbol. Oh, ticker symbol is a read our own 10 shares of them. They pay me out 25 cents per share. So I received $2.67 from ticker symbol. Oh, and they pay out monthly. They make every single month. I've been naming some quarterly paying dividend stocks, but ticker symbol is known as the monthly paying dividend stock. And they've been increasing their dividends for the last 25, 50 years as well. Absolutely love them. I got $2.67 from ticker symbol. Oh, PSEC paid me out $1.37. SPYD paid me out $5.03. That is a dividend ETF. WM is Waste Management. I own 18 shares. They pay me out $0.70 per share. So around $13.04. Waste Management only goes up, guys. It literally only goes up one-on-one. Buff is favorite company. It's a trash company. It's very boring, but they always making money every single year. The next one is NTES right here. I think I want to increase my position in them. I own five shares, 52 cents per share, paying out $2.74. NTES. The next one is SPHD, also another dividend ETF, paying me out $5.56. That is a monthly paying dividend stock. PEYS also monthly paying me out $8.39. And then I have QYLD, one of my bigger ones, paying me out $63.31. That is also a monthly paying dividend stock that means every month I'm going to receive $63 for me to go spend and buy anything that I want. QYLD is kind of like a high dividend ETF. It's not safe. It's not the safest route to go down, but I'm investing to this one for you guys to show you how powerful dividend investing can be if you have the snowball effect, right? The next one is LUV, Southwest Airlines. Southwest Airlines, LUV, 11 shares, 18 cents per share, paying me out $2.07. I have NVIDIA, paying me out $3. PepsiCo, Tixamble PEP. PepsiCo just became dividend kings, right? They've been increasing their dividends every single year for 50 years now. It makes it 50 years. I own two shares. I'm paying me out $1.26 per share, so that's $2.53. And then that's it. I have a couple coming up in October, as you guys can see. But let's move on over to my Weibo account. Let's go to history. All right, so here we go on my dividend records for on my Weibo account. Just September, I got AMC, paying me out $1.03. 3M, like I said, when I said I was, I earned a lot more. This has completely been a game changer. 3M paid me out $150 in dividends. Microsoft, I think I'm going to get a lot more for Microsoft. That next dividend pay me at the time on 17 shares of Microsoft, now on 100 shares of Microsoft. So you could kind of like double, you could multiply this by four. That's how much I'm going to get paid next time for Microsoft. But they pay me out $11.56. And then QYLD, I have some of them in this portfolio as well, paying me out $144.78. And the last one is NVIDIA, paying me out $0.20. So total that comes out with a total of overall to $459.26 in a single month. Now I did absolutely nothing this month, but sit back, relax and watch these checks hit. Now there's 30 days in a month, I got paid 26 of those days doing absolutely nothing at all. Just if that sounds like a good idea to you, go ahead, hit the thumbs up button. Go ahead, hit that subscribe button. But that is just in a single month. Some months, it's a little more. Some months, it's a little less. But if we average that out, if I make this every single month from here on out, multiply that by 12. In a single year, I can make $5,511.12. That is completely insane, but I'm greedy. I'm a hustler. I want more. And if you're making the same, if you're making a little less, you should always want more. And the way I do that, I reinvest my dividends. So I'm reinvesting $5,511 back inside my portfolio. So that can make even more money next year, just from dividends by doing absolutely nothing at all. And if you guys do want to know more about what I changed inside my portfolio, because I'm going to change it again to, I think I could do better. I know I could do better. There's some stocks inside my portfolio I don't need. It's something that I need to rearrange here and rearrange there. If you guys want to know exactly what I'm doing, what stocks I'm buying, what options I'm doing, I'm going to leave a pin link down in the comment section to my Patreon, sign up, join that, get inside the Discord. Over there, I post every single time I buy and sell a stock, I post all my option trades. I think we have three different pro option trades in there that post that option trades every single day. And if you want to be a part of a community of investors that want to be financially free, just like you, make sure that you check out that pin comment down in the comment section. And there we go, dreamers. Are you a dividend investor? Let me know down in the comment section, what dividends are you investing into? Do you reinvest your dividends or do you actually pay your bills or you pay your car note or you pay your light bill or you put gas inside the tank? Do you take vacations with your dividends? What do you do with your dividends? Have you heard of dividends? Let me know about that down in the comment section. Let me know how much are you making per month from your comment section. I remember when I first started off, I was making 37 cents a month. For about the first year, I got up to maybe $10 a month in my first year, which was pretty good to me. I was very excited. I was like, Hey, I'm making $10 a month. That's around $120 a year. I could go buy some new shoes every year just from dividends. Now it's up to you to say, if you want to say how much you make in dividends per month down in the comment section, but I would love to read you guys comments on what you're investing into and how much you're making from dividends per month. But that's completely insane that the most passive form of income that I have is dividends. And I'm going to earn around $5,000 this year from dividends by doing absolutely nothing at all. But if you guys do want to sign up with Moomoo, if you guys do want to sign up with Weeble and get started dividend investing today, both of those links are going to be down in the description. You head down to the description, you click Moomoo, sign up, start your account, start dividend investing. Do your research first. Please always do your research first. But if you do your research, I highly recommend that you start to do your research on dividend aristocrats and do your research on dividend kings, right? And then you can start to branch off into other stocks and things like that. But make sure that you do your research first before you just jump inside the stock market like I did, because it took me a while to learn and to change my portfolio around in order for me to have some growth. But yeah, guys, don't forget to pick up your free stocks and don't hit hit the thumbs up button. Go ahead, hit that subscribe button because that helps out this channel more than you could even imagine. But other than that, I'm Zeke, bring you to Dream Green Show and I'm out. Peace.