Author: Mike Nadel, Dividends And Income

It’s a company with a very strong balance sheet, a good all-around financial picture, and it’s been a consistent dividend grower.

You want $5k per year in dividends, and you’ve decided that a dividend portfolio is the best way to go. After all, dividends paid by high-quality companies are reliable and they tend to grow at an inflation-beating rate, year-after-year. With this in mind, today we’ll take a look at how much one needs to invest to generate $5k per year in dividends. In the process, we’ll provide an update on our Income Builder Portfolio (IBP).

Realty Income is known as “The Monthly Dividend Company”… it’s a high-quality real estate leader… and it’s a stock with an enviable long-term history of outperformance.

Its proven business model, probability of future success and, of course, its growing dependable dividend helped make it the 45th pick in our growing portfolio.