What is a dividend tracker?

With Sharesight's dividend tracker software, dividend payments are automatically tracked in an investor’s portfolio. Investors can view their dividend income and dividend history at any time, see the impact of dividend yield on their returns, and track dividend reinvestment plans (DRPs) in their portfolio. Additional features include the ability to see upcoming dividend income with Sharesight’s Future Income Report, and opt-in to dividend alerts about upcoming announced dividends.

How do I track my dividends?

To track your dividends, first you will need to sign up for a Sharesight account. Once you have a Sharesight account, you can start adding trades to your portfolio by automatically forwarding trade confirmation emails from your brokerage account, uploading a spreadsheet file filled with trades, or entering your trades manually.

How to make a dividend portfolio

It’s easy to track dividend paying stocks along with the rest of your investments in Sharesight. However, if you would like to create a separate portfolio for your dividend stocks, this can be done with Sharesight’s Investor or Expert plan, which allows users to have multiple portfolios. Alternatively, you may wish to apply an asset allocation framework to a singular portfolio, which can be done using Sharesight’s Custom Groups feature. Available on all Sharesight plans, this feature allows investors to group their investments by ‘themes’ in their portfolio.

How to grow a dividend portfolio?

Sharesight has a number of useful features designed to help investors reach their investment goals, including developing a dividend growth portfolio. For example, Sharesight users can easily view the dividend performance of stocks in their portfolio by seeing each stock’s overall dividend contribution on the Portfolio Overview page, or by clicking into individual stocks to see how much dividends contributed to the stock’s net total return.

Sharesight’s Auto Dividend Reinvestment feature (available for ASX and NZX stocks) is another useful feature that helps investors track their dividend reinvestment plans (DRPs), which is one key measure that many investors take to grow their dividend portfolio. Dividend reinvestments can be tracked for non-ASX and NZX stocks as well, simply by manually recording the dividend reinvestment when you add or edit a dividend payment in your portfolio. Investors searching for prospective dividend stocks will also benefit from Sharesight’s Share Checker tool, which allows investors to quickly view the performance of any stock, inclusive of dividends.

What are the benefits of a dividend portfolio tracker?

Who is Sharesight's dividend tracker dividend tracker suitable for?

Why choose Sharesight’s dividend portfolio tracker?

With the ability to automatically track dividends and see the impact of dividends on your returns, Sharesight is the best free dividend tracker for self-directed investors. As a comprehensive online portfolio tracking solution, Sharesight also has a range of powerful features that extend beyond dividend tracking. For example, unlike the data provided by most brokers or basic portfolio trackers such as Yahoo Finance, Sharesight takes into account the impact of capital gains, dividends, brokerage fees and foreign exchange rates when calculating returns – providing investors with the full picture of their portfolio’s performance.

Investors will also benefit from Sharesight’s suite of advanced reports built for self-directed investors, including Performance, Portfolio Diversity, Contribution Analysis, Multi-Currency Valuation and Future Income (upcoming dividends). The ability to track cash accounts, property and even cryptocurrency is just another reason that investors should consider using Sharesight to track their investment portfolio.