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Re:Berkshire Hathaway 2020 Annual report [pdf] by mdorazio on Saturday February 27, 2021 @12:28PM (#26286372)
It's going to depend on your tax rate and the expense ratio of whatever Nasdaq ETF you choose unless you're planning to self-manage 100+ company investments. Dividends get taxed (usually) as income, so you'd have to deduct that from the average dividend yield. QQQ, for example, has a 0.2% expense ratio and around 0.55% yield. If you assume 30% tax rate on the dividends, the after-tax, after-expense yield is under 0.2%, or basically negligible even with compounding.

If you want to compare dividend reinvestment, you should stick to non-tech indexes.

Re:Berkshire Hathaway 2020 Annual report [pdf] by bulletsvshumans on Saturday February 27, 2021 @02:32PM (#26287465)
In the U.S., dividends are taxed at the capital gains rate if you’ve held the stock for a year or more. They are taxed as income only if youv’ve held the stock for less than a year.