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I try to focus on dividends and not growth when investing, but apparently not very many people do this, because my online brokerage does a really poor job showi
by cdoxsey 9y ago
I try to focus on dividends and not growth when investing, but apparently not very many people do this, because my online brokerage does a really poor job showing this data over time.
I suppose they purposefully avoid forecasting the dividends, since dividends aren't guaranteed... But some companies have payed dividends for decades like clockwork.
Anyway I wanted to do a better job keeping track of it as rough, monthly income, so I wrote a script which scraped the information off the website, ran some basic number crunching and printed the results. (Of course they didn't make this easy... It's not like they have an API for this information, I had to craft the http post, cookie and parse html, etc)