When I first started investing for dividends I was shooting for a 25% increase in dividend payouts per year. Four years later I’m still hitting that, but as the numbers get bigger I will scale back my annual goal to be about a 14% increase per year – much of that should just come automatically from dividend increases and reinvested shares. The rest will come from continuing to buy dividend yielding stocks.

Consumer-level software seem to “forget” about sales when displaying portfolio returns. They’re also pretty weak when prorating returns from holdings that have been held for less than a year.

But maybe I’m looking at the wrong programs. Any suggestions?