June 2026 Dividend Income Update

Another boring dividend income update!

It is a marathon not a sprint. Nothing exciting, just slowly increasing by a few hundred dollars at a time.

I recently did the Grouse Grind after 10 years. For those of you who don’t know, it’s called “The Nature’s Stairmaster”. The last time I did it was before I became pregnant with my first child. This time I went with my two children. I did not try and race up to try and get the best “Grind time” (of course) and instead took my time, taking breaks with my kids when they needed to take a break (it was their first time after all).

It was much more enjoyable when you are not pressuring yourself to get to the destination as fast as possible. I noticed all the little changes that happened after 10 years, new signage, new railing, new ropes, and even a new Gondola.

Financial Freedom is a marathon, not a sprint.

I was tracking my liquid net worth and I remembered, oh yeah, I forgot to include my addy ‘investment’. It was a speculative $100 I threw into Addy (my husband, who is always right, told me it was not a good idea). Addy is a crowdfunding real estate company. I looked it up and didn’t realize that they were under investigation! It is very illiquid and it is even more illiquid now. You may have heard that they are going bankrupt, and “The company does not have the liquidity to meet its obligations as they come due, and we do not have a viable path to continue operating in the current structure”.

I’m sure glad it was only $100 and not more.

I’ll have to update my addy invest review.

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.

June 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 May 2026 Dividend Income Update if you want to look at my dividend portfolio from last month.  The forward annual yield at that time was $43573.

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

My June 2026 Forward Dividend Income is $43,573 and this is a 0.8% increase from last month, or $358 increase in annual dividend income. Pretty low, the dividend snowball is slowing down.

My “hourly rate” is $4.97 whether I’m eating or sleeping or cleaning my stove.

Or the rate is $20.95/ hour if I was working a 40 hour work week.

The minimum wage in BC increases to $18.25 per hour on June 1, 2026.

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? As mentioned I can’t get an accurate graph with my brokerage switching.

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 June 2025 forward dividend income was $38926 and my June 2026 forward dividend income is $43,573 which is a 11.9% 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.

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 June 2026.

It was an average dividend paying month.

• Fortis (FTS.TO)
• Manulife Financial (MFC.TO) I ‘paid myself’ $658 to deep clean my stove
• Suncor (SU.TO)
• Vanguard Emerging Market ETF (VEE.TO)
• Vanguard Real Estate ETF (VNQ)
• Vanguard Total International Stock Market ETF (VXUS)
• Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI)
• Sunlife Financial (SLF.TO)
• CASH ETF (CASH.TO)
• iShares S&P/TSX Capped REIT (XRE.TO)
• Riocan Real Estate Investment (REI.UN.TO)

DIVIDEND PORTFOLIO CHANGES

• Vanguard Emerging Market ETF (VEE.TO) added a distribution (last quarter there was zero distribution)
• Updated the 12 month trailing yield for the Vanguard ETFs
• Added more Vanguard ex-Canada ETF (VXC.TO)
• Added more iShares S&P/TSX Capped REIT Index ETF (XRE.TO)
• Added more Global X High Interest Savings ETF (CASH.TO)

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 almost 400%.