Here is a table for all the ETFs that I have bought. I show the original purchase daid, the amount I paid per share, total dividends received to date, the current trading value per share and the cumulative annual return rate for the investments.
| ETF | bought | paid | dividends | current | return |
| DVY | May-10 | $44.37 | $2.68 | $52.94 | 15% |
| ICLN | May-10 | $15 | $0.57 | $8.40 | -28% |
| ICLN | May-10 | $15 | $17.63 | 17% | |
| PEY | Sep-10 | $8.08 | $0.44 | $0.07 | 22% |
| VTI | Mar-11 | $68.32 | $0.86 | $63.49 | -9% |
| VYM | Jan-09 | $35.41 | $3.20 | $44.54 | 10% |
| VYM | Aug-11 | $41.14 | $0.30 | $44.54 | 29% |
I bought ICLN and then sold off most of it at $17.63 making a profit. It has then dropped under $9 so the stock I've got left is negative. All together I'm down 5% on that one.
I bought VYM two times so theres two entries for that one.
Here is how my investments have compared to the S&P 500's performance in the same periods :
| mine | SP500 | diff | |
| DVY | 15% | 8.6% | 6% |
| ICLN | -5% | 8.6% | -14% |
| PEY | 22% | 10.1% | 12% |
| VTI | -9% | -8.6% | 0% |
| VYM | 10% | 10.3% | 0% |
| VYM | 29% | 6.1% | 23% |
As you can see I'm beating or equalling the S&P in most cases. My investments in VTI & VYM are in broad market indexes so I'd expect those to be a lot closer to the performance of the S&P 500 than not.
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