By Marc Finnern, published on 25.09.2026, updated on 28.09.2026
What the Trade Republic app shows about dividends, and what it does not
In the Trade Republic app, every dividend payment shows up as a single entry in the activity list, with date, security and amount. That is enough to check one payment, but not to get an overview of a year or the whole portfolio.
What is missing in the app: a total per instrument or year, a calendar of upcoming payment dates, a forecast for the rest of the year, and yield on cost, meaning dividend yield measured against your own purchase price rather than the current price. Anyone who wants to know how much dividend income their portfolio produced, or will produce, in a given year has to add up the individual entries themselves.
How dividends appear in the CSV export
Since April 2026, Trade Republic has offered a CSV export directly in the app, alongside the PDF account statement. Under "Statements" in the menu you will find "Transaction export", where you choose a period, "since account opening" for the full history. Once the file is ready, you can save it through the share function, for example by emailing it to yourself.
Every dividend line in the export carries three amounts: the gross amount before tax, the tax withheld, and the net amount that actually arrives in your cash account. Only if you see all three fields can you tell gross and net yield apart correctly.
One quirk concerns REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts). If a distribution is later reclassified for tax purposes as a return of capital rather than a dividend, Trade Republic books a correction line. This correction is not a new payment, it adjusts an already-reported dividend, and it should be excluded from any summary, otherwise the yearly total looks inflated.
Yearly overview and dividend calendar
From the CSV rows you can build a yearly overview per instrument, with gross, tax and net columns, plus a calendar that lists every actual payment by date. REIT corrections do not count as separate distributions, they only adjust the payment already booked.
That is exactly what Trade Checker delivers once you upload your TR export, a dividends page with yearly and monthly totals per instrument and a calendar of payment dates, with no manual counting required.
Forecasting the rest of the year
A useful forecast looks at roughly the last 400 days per position. That window reveals the payment rhythm, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual, and lets you estimate the remaining payment dates for the current year.
Every estimate needs a confidence level: a stock with four regular quarterly payments over the last 400 days deserves more trust than one that only recently entered the portfolio or changes its payout irregularly. Trade Checker also calculates a reinvestment variant, in which future dividends would be reinvested into the same position.
Exceptions stay exceptions, a special dividend or a cut cannot be predicted from the past. The forecast is an estimate based on the pattern so far, not a guarantee.
Yield on cost explained
The current dividend yield relates the annual payout to the current share price. Yield on cost relates the same annual payout to your own purchase price, meaning what you actually paid for the stock.
An example. You bought a stock a few years ago for 40 euros, it now pays 2 euros a year in dividends and currently trades at 80 euros. The current yield is 2.5 percent (2 euros on 80 euros), while your yield on cost is 5 percent (2 euros on your original 40 euros). Yield on cost shows how well your personal entry point pays off in hindsight, independent of the current price.
Dividend per share actually held, and how to get it from the export
To see whether a company actually raised or cut its dividend, the total amount alone is not enough, since it also rises if you simply bought more shares. A more meaningful figure is the net dividend per share actually held at each payment date, because it shows the per-share trend independent of your own position size.
To see the yearly overview, calendar, forecast, yield on cost and dividend per share for your own portfolio, export the full transaction history under "Statements" in the Trade Republic app, save the CSV unchanged (opening it in Excel beforehand can alter the date or number format) and upload it to Trade Checker. Trade Checker is a free web app with no subscription, no investment advice and no bank access, it only reads the CSV you upload yourself.
Frequently asked questions
Does Trade Republic show a yearly dividend overview?
No, the app only lists every dividend payment individually in the activity feed. You have to build a yearly total per instrument or portfolio yourself from the CSV export, or have a tool like Trade Checker calculate it for you.
How do I get a dividend calendar for my Trade Republic portfolio?
The transaction export lets you sort every actual dividend payment by date, excluding REIT correction entries. Trade Checker builds this calendar automatically once you upload your CSV export.
What is yield on cost, and why does it differ from the displayed dividend yield?
Yield on cost relates the annual dividend to your own purchase price instead of the current price. If a stock has risen since you bought it, your yield on cost will be higher than the current dividend yield.