Pay Attention to Dividend Distribution Frequency!

Well, my category is actually going to be pretty simple.

Um, I'm just going to look at dividend frequency and consistency.

And that uh basically alludes to the the distribution schedule of each of these funds.

And I I would think while you don't necessarily need to, you know, live off your portfolio income if you if you own one of these funds, I think a lot of people are relying on their portfolio to uh deliver them predictable and consistent income.

And uh if you look at a lot of the international equity funds that that deliver dividends, most of them do it on a quarterly basis.

And a lot of these quarter-over-quarter distributions are really choppy and inconsistent.

So, uh you may have a huge distribution one quarter, very slight the next quarter.

There's just no uh there there's really not a lot of predictability to it.

Uh, IDVO on the other hand, obviously it's a covered call strategy, so it works differently, but uh it delivers its distributions on a monthly basis.

If you look historically at those distributions, uh they've been very steady.

They've actually been increasing over time.

So shareholders have uh gotten a nice pay raise over the last several years.

So I think for for people who are relying on their portfolios for income, that's an important factor to consider.

So just from a standpoint of income predictability uh and steadiness for uh for income seekers I think IDVO is the winner