Dividend income
The cash the companies you hold have actually paid you, added up since your first trade.
In the demo portfolio
$937
How it is computed here
On each ex-dividend date, the amount per share multiplied by the shares you held the day before, converted into this portfolio's currency at that day's rate. Holding on the ex-date itself does not count: by then the share trades without the right to that payment, which is why it trades cheaper.
Worked example
- Every dividend: shares held the day before the ex-date × the dividend per share, added up.
Demo portfolio: four invented companies, generated prices, measured by the real engine. Past returns do not predict future ones.
Where it misleads
It is already inside the return figures, not on top of them. A share's closing price drops on the day it pays, so counting the cash is what stops the payment looking like a small loss.