February 2026 Dividend Income Update

I don’t have much to say, life is just happening. Our whole family got sick for about a week and a half, one of my kiddos missed a whole week of school. I fell down today tripped on uneven side walk while on a run listening to online brokerages on Nelson and Bob’s podcast (the same run I do all the time) and scraped my hand, fingers, elbow. The last time I fell was about 7 years ago and then I ended up going to the hospital for a carotid artery dissection a week or so later. This was a bit jarring but I’m okay. Two small diamonds on my engagement ring fell out from today’s fall.

Kind of sucks but it could be much worse. Being able to live and breathe without pain is a great gift- you never know when your time is up.

My uncle recently died from a big bleed out stroke. He was almost 70 years old. My mom just saw him about 3 days prior for lunch, too and he seemed fine. I remember we used to go to his grocery store for a visit as a family. He owned a small corner grocery store, and he would give us some candy. His store was in the next city, about a 30 minute drive from our home.

That’s why they call high blood pressure the silent killer. Get your blood pressure checked everyone, and if it’s high, make sure you lower it either through diet and exercise or medications, if needed.

May he rest in peace.

Anyway back to dividends.

If you like to track your dividend income like I do, here’s a free dividend tracker spreadsheet download for you. I find it motivating to keep track of your numbers and continue to see a positive trajectory. I use it to track how many shares of an investment I buy and when.

February 2026 Dividend Income Update

My goal for 2026 is to have at least $45,000 annually of dividend income. Feels a little low to me given how expensive everything is… but I’ll re-evaluate.

Here’s my January 2026 Dividend Income Update if you want to look at my dividend portfolio from last month.  The forward annual yield at that time was $42,179.

A few notes: I leave the US dividends received/ estimated as a 1:1 US and CAD dollar exchange to keep thing simple.

My February 2026 Forward Dividend Income is $42,726 and this is a 1.3% increase from last month, or $547 increase in annual dividend income.

My “hourly rate” is now $4.88 whether I’m eating or sleeping or cleaning my stove.

Or the rate is $20.54/ hour if I was working a 40 hour work week.

The minimum wage in BC increased to $17.85/hr on June 1 2025.

Way to go passive income!

Here’s my screenshot chart from Wealthica below on my 12 month performance relative to VTI as of May 27, 2025. Beating the S&P500, not too shabby right?

To get to this page, log into Wealthica and click on “add-ons” then click on “Performance Report” in the drop down box. You’ll be able to see how your portfolio compares to the S&P/TSX and the S&P 500 (but it doesn’t include the dividends).

Personally, I think it’s not a bad idea to keep track of how your portfolio compares to the benchmark indices, because if you have 75 different Canadian dividend paying companies and your return over the years is only 4% compounded annually then you might want to think about changing your investment strategy.

Comparing my own portfolio to the benchmark (and being appalled at the measly return) is what prompted me to switch to at least 50% of my portfolio in ETFs a few years ago and since then my portfolio has been doing better total growth-wise.

My February 2025 forward dividend income was $37940 and my February 2026 forward dividend income is $42,726 which is a 12.6% increase.

Here’s how my forward dividend yield looks like compared to the last few years, it has definitely slowed down recently. Sorry the chart looks ugly.

You can read my Wealthica review here if you’re interested in it. It’s not free anymore but it still provides good value for the cost in my opinion.

I love it as it works especially well with my Questrade accounts because of the API access and the graphing capabilities of Wealthica are much better than what you would just get with Questrade.

It does not work well with RBC Direct Investing or TD though, it doesn’t alway sync up well on the app.

Unfortunately Passiv Elite is not free for Questrade users anymore, but it is included for Questrade Plus users only (you have to pay a monthly fee for this service).

If you prefer your own spreadsheet instead, and you’re interested in getting your own dividend income spreadsheet tracker, sign up for a free download here.

DIVIDENDS RECEIVED

I like tracking upcoming payments and ex-dividend dates using the Dividend Pro App. I just renewed for another year and they increased the price, it’s now $17.50 or so for a year but I think it’s worth it so I can keep myself updated regarding dividend payments and changes.

Wealthica also has a free add-on called “Income Investor Lite” and you can choose to see the Income Calendar, Dividend Holdings, and Upcoming Payments with a subscription of $9.99/year.

You can do a free trial of the upgraded income investor lite (no credit card needed) for seven days.

The upgraded version has an income calendar showing you the upcoming payments.

Also it shows you the dividends paid (in total), and forward yearly dividends expected including the current dividend yield and your yield on cost (in the paid version).

The free version shows you an income chart of the last 12 months of payments and the forward 12 months of payments expected, however the forward 12 months doesn’t seem accurate.

I like it because you don’t have to manually update any holdings when you make changes to the number of shares you own etc. however, I don’t like that you can’t see it on the phone (and it’s just on desktop).

Therefore, I’ll stick to Dividend Pro for now.

Here are the companies and ETFs that paid dividends and distributions in February 2026.

It was a below average dividend paying month.

• National Bank (NA.TO)
• Verizon (VZ)
• Global X High Interest Savings ETF (CASH.TO)
• Bank of Montreal (BMO.TO)
• iShares S&P/TSX Capped REIT (XRE.TO)
• Riocan Real Estate Investment (REI.UN.TO)

DIVIDEND PORTFOLIO CHANGES

Here are some changes to the portfolio in January:

• Added Vanguard Emerging Market ETF (VEE.TO)
• Manulife Financial (MFC.TO) increased their dividend by 10.53% from $0.44 per quarter to $0.485 per quarter and increased my forward dividend income by almost $250.
• Verizon (VZ) also increased their dividend by 2.54% from $0.69 per quarter to $0.7075 per quarter

Here are some of my favourite five Canadian dividend stocks if you’re interested. One of them has been a quadruple bagger for me, returning over 400%.