Should You Reinvest Your Dividends?
First, let's define what dividend reinvestment is. When you invest in a company that pays dividends, you have the option to receive those dividends as a cash payment or to automatically reinvest them back into the company. By choosing to reinvest your dividends, you're essentially using them to buy more shares of the stock, which can help grow your portfolio faster. So, if you invest in McDonalds and they pay you, you can then essentially say ‘I don’t want this cash, instead please buy more McDonalds stock’. You can choose to buy back more shares of the company that paid you the dividend or you can use the payment to buy more shares in another company - either is great and increases your portfolio! Deciding to just buy the same company is easier and you can have this done automatically but picking which company yourself allows more flexibility and you can decide what you need more of in your portfolio - perhaps you need a higher exposure to a particular sector and a certain st...