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Seeded with QQQ's live yield, its measured dividend growth, and 7%/yr price growth; payouts reinvested, taxes off (as in a Roth IRA). Assumptions, not predictions. Early years will track your real buying schedule only loosely — lump-sum timing shifts the first few years and washes out over decades. Want taxes and the year-by-year table? Open the full calculator →
Year-one dividend income at the live yield, before taxes — small on purpose; the growth is the product.
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All 89 payments since 2003, charted with the next expected ex-date, on the QQQ dividend history page.
Live data, not defaults: the yield is QQQ's trailing twelve months of real distributions divided by today's price, refreshed each page load. Dividend growth is measured from the fund's own annual payout totals across two decades of record and capped at 10%/yr for conservatism. Change anything above and the projection recomputes instantly.
The Dividend Nobody Watches
Nobody buys the Invesco QQQ Trust for income — at roughly 0.5%, the yield reads like a rounding error. The overlooked part: the payout itself compounds hard. QQQ distributed $0.38 per share in 2004, $1.10 in 2015, and $2.85 in 2024 — money that, reinvested along the way, bought more shares of one of the strongest price compounders of the era. That double engine is what the projection above models.
Growth Fund Math vs. Income Fund Math
A QQQ projection lives or dies on the price-growth assumption, not the yield — flip the 7% seed to 5% or 9% and watch the 20-year figure swing. That's the honest nature of a growth vehicle: the dividend is dessert. If what you actually want is monthly cash you can spend now, that's income-fund math — type your shares into the calculator on any fund payout page and see a real check instead of a 20-year hope.
Drawdowns Are the Tuition
The record's fine print: the Nasdaq-100 has twice lost roughly half its value on the way to those returns. The projection draws a smooth curve; reality pays it in lurches. The practical defense is the "Added Each Month" field above — steady buying through the lurches is precisely how the long-run curve gets captured. Compare temperaments, not just returns, in our side-by-side tool.
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