WArren Buffett showed it to everyone again last year: While the S&P 500 lost around 20 percent in the previous year, his investment company Berkshire Hathaway was able to gain around three percent. So it has beaten the market once again, and at a really complicated time. Much has been written about his investment strategies, but little has gone unnoticed about how much money he’s made from dividends.
A dividend is the profit that a listed company pays out to the shareholders – you benefit almost twice from a possible business success, once through price increases and through the dividend. Buffett can currently collect $ 4.84 billion in dividends annually. It is particularly noteworthy that three quarters of the dividend gains come from just six companies. For small investors, it may be worth looking at the dividend yield: It’s calculated by dividing the dividend by the share price and multiplying it by 100. The higher the value, the better.