Advanded portfolio breakdown

[Scott Armitage]

Dividends are income. Reinvested dividends are income that is then used to
purchase additional units. That they are reinvested is a decision by you
based on your investment strategy.


On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 4:48 AM, Chris Henderson <henders254 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Scott Armitage <
> account+gnucash at scott.armitage.name> wrote:
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>> The portion coming from stock price increase, also known as capital gain,
>> will be reflected by your "unrealized gain", while dividends will be
>> reflected by your "income".
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>>   Total return = Total gain + Income
>>                = ( Realized gain + Unrealized gain ) + Income
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> Dividend gets reinvested so it doesn't go to income; and every time
> dividend gets reinvested, rate of return goes up.
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