Everything you need to understand dividend investing, taught in order from the very first idea. Dividend stocks, dividend ETFs, covered calls, the funds paying 50% yields, and the risks nobody mentions in the ads.
Each course builds on the last. New to all of this? Start at DIV 101 and go in order. Already own a few dividend stocks? Jump to whatever you want to understand better.
How dividends work, and the companies that pay them.
What a dividend is, where it comes from, and how to read the numbers.
Aristocrats, Kings, the sectors that pay, and how to tell a safe payout from a shaky one.
Dividend ETFs, the options behind today's high yield funds, and the REITs and BDCs built to pay out.
How ETFs work, the main kinds of dividend ETF, and how to compare them properly.
Calls, puts, covered calls and cash-secured puts, explained from zero.
Landlords and lenders that must pay out 90% of their income, and how to judge them.
Covered call ETFs up close, and what chasing yield can cost.
JEPI, QYLD, SPYI, YieldMax and the weekly payers: what they actually do.
Capped upside, NAV erosion, return of capital and yield traps.
Keeping more of what you earn, and building a portfolio that pays you.
Qualified dividends, return of capital, Section 1256, covered calls and your 1099-DIV.
Reinvesting, building the portfolio, and turning dividends into a paycheck.
Each one takes about ten minutes and explains one idea properly, with a worked example in dollars.
Lessons pull current yields and returns from Dividend Duel, so the examples are real funds and real numbers, not made up ones.
A short quiz at the end of every lesson, with an explanation for each answer, right or wrong.
Mark lessons complete to fill your progress bars. Finish every course and print your certificate.
Yes. Every lesson, quiz and the certificate are free, with no paywall and no email required. Dividend Duel is paid for by the tools on the rest of the site, not by selling courses.
No. Your progress is saved in your browser as soon as you mark a lesson complete. If you connect a free Dividend Sync account, your progress is kept on the account instead, so it follows you to your phone or another computer. It only ever shows up here on Dividend Duel.
Start with What Is a Dividend? and go in order. DIV 101 assumes nothing at all, and each course builds on the one before it. If you already own dividend stocks, you can skip ahead to any course.
About 10 hours of reading for all 62 lessons, or roughly 10 minutes a lesson. Most people do one or two a day.
Yes, in detail. DIV 202 teaches options from scratch, DIV 301 explains how option income ETFs are built, and DIV 302 covers the risks, including NAV erosion and return of capital.
No. Dividend University is education. It explains how things work, with real examples, so you can make your own decisions or have a better conversation with a licensed adviser. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell anything.
Dividend University is for education only and is not financial, investment or tax advice. Examples use real securities to show how things work, not to recommend them. See our disclosure.