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Freenet now pays my Freenet HD fees

As I like to buy shares in companies whose products I also use personally (then you really understand the business model), Freenet $FNTN (+2,71 %) has been on my watch list for some time. As a user of DVB-T2 terrestrial television, I pay €9.49 a month to Freenet to receive HD programs. It therefore makes sense to recoup these fees through the dividends. After all, Freenet has announced a dividend of €2.07 and intends to maintain this for at least the next few years.

So the calculation was clear: €9.49*12=€114 in fees per year. 60 shares make €124 in dividends per year.

And if my everyday things pay for themselves, that's totally in line with my dudesque lifestyle...

26.02

FreeNet

Acheté x60 à 27,00 €

1 620,00 €

19 Commentaires

Echsenkönig A.@Bezehgombjuderstimme

Your username is gold bro. I celebrate hard...

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AI sagt@GoDividend

Did you buy too little or is Freenet tax-free? 😅

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Chris@Multibagger

@GoDividend he has received the new customer bonus😂

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Dividenden-Penner@Dividenden-Penner

@GoDividend If Freenet pays in May, I won't have exhausted my allowance yet...😬

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Alpalaka@Alpalaka

@Dividenden-Penner freenet dividends are tax-free or gross = net and are only offset when sold

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Dividenden-Penner@Dividenden-Penner

@Alpalaka Not anymore. The full tax has been due since 2026.

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Smudo@Smudeo

@Alpalaka no see posts in the forum at $FNTN

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Alpalaka@Alpalaka

@Dividenden-Penner oh thank you!

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GiCi@GiCi

Well, is not exactly paying for itself. The ex-dividend drop will be part of your 1620€. In other words, a share of your 1620€ will be monetized to pay your subscription, the rest will stat with the stock. So, Indeed, you had to block 1620€ in order to have your subscription paid. I don't know, that is expensive choice.

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Dividenden-Penner@Dividenden-Penner

@GiCi Well, accordingly to your logic I have now every month 9,49€ of free cash to invest.😬

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GiCi@GiCi

@Dividenden-Penner Indeed. But those are already a "slice" of your 1620€. By the way, I am not criticizing and see the point of having cash flow to cover expenses directly from the source of those expenses. I Just have the feeling that people misunderstand dividendo and think they are money coming "out of thin air".

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Epi@Epi

Your train of thought is captivating. Unfortunately, it's also a trap.
Essentially, you are saving away your capital growth and thus foregoing the compound interest effect. The 124€pa today is 1850€ in 40 years at 7%pa.

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Dividenden-Penner@Dividenden-Penner

@Epi the eternal debate of dividends vs compound interest... Mathematically correct but I don't want to be the richest guy in the cemetery in 40+ years but financial freedom today. 😎

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Epi@Epi

@Dividenden-Penner Well, if you want financial freedom today, why are you taking €1620 out of your disposable income? What you could subscribe to with it!

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NichtRelevant@NichtRelevant

@Epi There it is again - the dividend discussion. 😅 .

You can also reinvest them if you don't need the money at the moment. I think that dividend payments also force companies to be thrifty. I don't think that's a bad thing. But well - I'm also from the dividend faction. 😏

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NichtRelevant@NichtRelevant

I love the picture and the explanation with the lifestyle. 🚀
Your post at the time about $MOWI was along the same lines.

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ThomasHH@ThomasHH

Have had 1200 Freenet in my portfolio for 11 years. The distributions were tax-free until 2025.
The purchase price has virtually already been paid out again through distributions.
Selling the shares now for a subsequent tax deduction would be stupid.
So hold on and collect every May.

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Jannik@jaheu

The post with the GIf made me a follower 😄!

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Dividenden-Penner@Dividenden-Penner

19H

@jaheu Welcome to the Dudeists.

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