Last Updated on May 7, 2025 by Chin Yi Xuan
Have you ever wondered how much dividend you have received for the last month, quarter, or year?
As a dividend investor myself, I lose track of my dividends too when life gets too busy at times.
In this post, I’d like to show you how I keep track of my dividends from my Freedom Fund from my go-to broker, Interactive Brokers (IBKR).
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How much dividend did I make last month?
As a dividend investor, I’d always like to know how much dividend I made in the prior month (or quarter/year).
My personal habit is to track my monthly dividend based on the Ex-Date of the dividend announcement.
Dividend Ex-Date refers to the day you have to hold on to a company’s shares to be eligible for their announced dividend.
For instance, if a stock or ETF announces a dividend with an Ex-Date of 31/3/2025 with a Payable Date of 2/4/2025, I will consider this as part of the dividend I receive for March.
Interactive Brokers (IBKR) makes it easy to track your dividends:
Before we start, make sure you’ve logged in to your Interactive Brokers account HERE.
Tracking your dividends on Interactive Brokers (IBKR)
Step 1 & 2: Under ‘Performance & Reports’, select ‘Statements’.
Step 3: Select ‘Realized Summary’
Step 4 & 5: Select your Period and Date for your report, then select your preferred format for viewing.
For this example, I will choose to view my dividend on a monthly basis for March 2025 – and to view it in HTML.
Step 6: Select ‘Change in Dividend Accruals’
Step 7: Identify dividends with ex-date for March 2025 (or any period of your selection)
There are 3 ‘Date’ columns:
- (a) The first ‘Date’ column refers to the date of the change in dividend accrual.
- (b) The second ‘Ex-Date’ column is the column that I’ll usually refer to as I track my dividends. To recap, Ex-Date refers to the day you have to hold on to a company’s shares to be eligible for their announced dividend.
So, for dividend tracking for March, I will consider all dividends with Ex-Date in the month of March as my March dividends.
- (c) The third column, ‘Pay Date’ tells you the date your dividends will be reflected on your IBKR account.
‘Po’ and ‘Re’ in Interactive Brokers (IBKR) statement:
Column (d) shows the remark of the dividend information with 2 codes:
- The postings (with code Po) are done for new accrual additions to the account.
- Meanwhile, reversals (with code Re) are done for the following three reasons: correction in dividend accruals, cancellation in dividend accrual, and reversal due to payout in cash.
For this example, I noticed 2 rows of dividends with Ex-Date in March to have a ‘Re’ code, which may indicate a reversal due to cancellation or correction.
As such, I will exclude them as I track my dividends:
- (e) Gross Rate also means ‘Distribution Per Unit’ (DPU) of your holding. It is the amount of dividend you receive per unit of share you own.
- (f) Gross Amount (Gross Rate x Quantity of Shares Owned) refers to the total dividend you receive for the shares you own before considering tax in (g).
- (g) Tax refers to the tax involved for the respective dividends. As a Malaysian, this usually refers to Dividend Withholding Tax (WHT).
- (h) Net Amount is the final dividend you’ll receive after deducting tax (if any) from (g).
Finally, after sorting the details above, the dividends with Ex-Date in March 2025 is as below:
Interactive Brokers (IBKR) Message Center Notification: Receive Email Updates on Your Dividends
Aside from logging into my IBKR account, I also like the fact that IBKR will inform me via email whenever there’s an upcoming dividend:
No Money Lah’s Verdict: Track your dividends with ease on Interactive Brokers (IBKR)
As a dividend investor, I find it essential to have a reliable platform to track my dividends easily, in addition to the ability to execute my trades.
I hope this is helpful and let me know in the comment section if you have any questions!
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