This is what the dividend investing is all about! Investing in dividend shares you can earn dividend income, the best passive income flow! Bias, you better believe it.
Time to dive in Lanny’s July 2025 Dividend income results! Have records been set? Almost to financial freedom? One day and a month at a time!
Dividend income
Dividend income is the fruit of the work of investing your money on the stock market. Furthermore, dividend income is my primary vehicle on its way to financial freedom.
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I also invest automatically and Max, before taxes, my 401K through work and my health savings account. This allows me to save a lot of money on taxes (also known as thousands), so I can invest even more. In addition, all dividends I receive are automatically re -invested in the company that has paid the dividend, aka dividend reinvestment plan or drip in short. This removes the emotion from the timing of the market and builds up on my passive income flow!
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Increasing your dividend income takes time and consistency. Investing as often and early as you can, the composite interest (aka dividends) can edit its magic. I am from earning $ 2.70 in a few months of dividend revenues to more than … $ 10,000+ in a few months. My dividend income was established in December 2021. Is it broken this month?! The power of composite and dividend reinvestment is a wonderful part of the portfolio. Every month, whether I am big or small, I will continue to report the passive income that dividend investment offers me. Why?
*Not depicted is my wife’s dividend income above*
I want to show You This dividend investment makes it possible to achieve financial freedom and/or financial independence. We all start somewhere, but consistently invest, merge (reinvesting) dividends and keeping it simple, allows you to be in a considerably better position than most. Furthermore, if I can grow this portfolio and income flow, You Can too.
Dividend Checks – July 2025
Now, on the numbers … in July, we (my wife and me) received a total dividend income from $ 4,161.64. Goodness … now just steps up income, so happy.
The amount and the number of shares below show you what it means to buy and retain for the long term. Most of the positions I have had for years, so that dividend growth and reinvestment do its thing. This is what the dividend is investing for financial freedom. The passive income flow is growing rapidly.
2023 rose by 24%. Guess what? 2024 rose by 23%! 2 years from back to back 20% return. However … 2025 seems to be different. So much volatility. The rate reduction is about to happen next week. Bitcoin recently reached high all time. However, the S&P 500 has risen by 12% again this year at the time of this letter, Wow.
Here is the breakdown of the dividend income for the month, between taxable and pension (extremely right -wing column, under “pension”) accounts. Moreover, “W” means my wife’s account:
My other two Vanguard ETFs – S&P 500 (VOO) and dividend appreciation ETF (VIG) both paid in July. In addition, I received the first SCHD dividend – with $ 72.65 in my account and $ 53.03 on my wife’s account, more than $ 125!
Phillip Morris (PM) and Canadian Imperial (CM) are two strokes of shares that pay and grow every year! If that dividend of Leggett & Platt (bone) was better … what a bad investment.
I also split my pension accounts in the extreme right column and the dividends of the taxable account are in the left two columns. The pension accounts are composed of HSA investments, Roth and traditional IRAs, as well as our work 401 (K) accounts. In total, the pension accounts raised a total dividend income amount of $ 2,196.19 or 53% of the income of the dividend income. Stacking income, whatever happens. Let’s go !!
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Dividend income year after annual comparison
2024: 
2025:
Our dividend income has risen $ 1,324.82 from last year! Let’s go !!!
Firstly, Vanguard’s S&P 500 ETF (VOO) is a lot up, because you can see what happens when you buy every day, more than $ 50 from last year.
Secondly, FXAIX-MY investment fund for the S&P 500 is much up, due to only bi-weekly investments for another year.
Pepsi (Pep) also paid versus June in July, which increases the dividend considerably.
$ 5,000 in dividend income is in my mind for 2026 … let’s go.
Dividend is increasing
We had a solid increase month, 3 shares find me here in 2025. Dividend growth has been soft, so 3 shares that increase dividends is great with me.
What was the best? To be honest, I go with essential utilities (WTRG), because they remain so consistent, with an increase of 5.25%.
Smucker’s (SJM) was expected, considering their increase in costs considerably in the spectrum, including coffee.
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In total, dividend increases created $ 14.44 in extra passive dividend income. I should invest $ 413 with a dividend yield of 3.50% to add that income. Thank you for the increases, because I didn’t have to come up with the capital to create that form of income!
Dividend income conclusion and summary
The name of the game is to apply what you learn through financial education. The following steps are to maximize each dollar for investment options and to live on your own conditions. That is why my plan is to show that dividend income can be an income engine. An income engine with which you can use it Take control back of your life. An income engine to help you achieve financial freedom. Dividend investing becomes easier as soon as you learn, and start to make enormous logical!
Excited for the future, undoubtedly. Moreover, all last year’s investing shows and this year is moving that my goal Save 60% of my incomeAnd Count every dollarhas yielded the dividend growth.
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