May 2026 Dividend Income Update

This month marked an exciting month for me. We’ll see how long it lasts, the bull market surely has to end sometime, right? Anyway, my portfolio doubled from February 2023. I can’t track my portfolio returns well in Wealthica anymore because I have switched accounts and opened new brokerage accounts a number of times.

I think my retirement from my part time work will be between age 50 to 55, but definitely not past age 55. Work can be stressful but rewarding and I think I would find less meaning if I were to be a 100% stay at home mom. Not to say it’s not an important job, of course. At age 50 my oldest child will be 16. They will probably still want to travel with us hopefully and we could go to more exciting places. Maybe you’ll find me on pickleball courts at age 55. My mom and mother in law will be in their 80’s at that time so I anticipate there will be more involvement for caregiving.

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.

May 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 April 2026 Dividend Income Update if you want to look at my dividend portfolio from last month.  The forward annual yield at that time was $42,883.

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

My May 2026 Forward Dividend Income is $43,215 and this is a 0.8% increase from last month, or $332 increase in annual dividend income. Pretty low, the dividend snowball is slowing down.

My “hourly rate” is $4.93 whether I’m eating or sleeping or cleaning my stove.

Or the rate is $20.78/ hour if I was working a 40 hour work week.

The minimum wage in BC will increase 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 May 2025 forward dividend income was $38821 and my May 2026 forward dividend income is $43,215 which is a 11.3% 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 May 2026.

It was a below average dividend paying month.

• National Bank (NA.TO)
• Power Corporation of Canada (POW.TO)
• Verizon (VZ)
• Bank of Montreal (BMO.TO)
• CASH ETF (CASH.TO)
• iShares S&P/TSX Capped REIT (XRE.TO)
• Riocan Real Estate Investment (REI.UN.TO)

DIVIDEND PORTFOLIO CHANGES

• Sunlife Financial (SLF.TO) announced a 4.35% increase in the annual dividend from $0.92 per quarter to $0.96 per quarter
• Added more Altria (MO)
• Added more Vanguard ex-Canada ETF (VXC.TO)
• Bank of Montreal increased their dividend by 2.4%
• TD Bank increased their dividend by 3.%
• National Bank of Canada increased their dividend by 6.45%
• CASH (Global X High Interest Savings ETF) increased the monthly payout to $0.075 per month

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%.