The final 2024 results are in, and it was a solid – but not spectacular – year for my model Yield Hog Dividend Growth Portfolio.
Helped by falling interest rates, the portfolio posted a total return of about 17.4 per cent in 2024, including dividends. In any other year that would qualify as a superb result, but it still trailed the S&P/TSX Composite Index’s total return of 21.7 per cent, also including dividends.
The silver lining is that the portfolio’s dividend income continued to grow steadily, in line with its primary mission of producing a rising stream of income.
I’ll do a deeper dive into the portfolio’s performance in my next Investor Clinic column.
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