Coca-Cola and J&J Just Hit Record Highs. A 62-Year-Old Put $300,000 Into Them and Procter & Gamble in 2016. Here’s How Much the Now 72-Year-Old Gets Paid Every Single Month

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A 62-year-old split $300,000 across Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola on Nov. 14, 2016. Ten years of dividend raises later, here is the monthly check at 72, the cash collected, what the shares are worth after Friday's record highs, the reinvested version, and the federal tax on the checks.

On Monday, Nov. 14, 2016, the first trading day after the election week, a 62-year-old put $300,000 into three companies whose products he had used every day of his life: Johnson & Johnson (J&J), Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola, $100,000 in each. Call him Walt. He had just sold a rental duplex, he was still two years from claiming Social Security, and he wanted checks he could count on. The 10-year Treasury paid 2.23% that Monday. The three stocks paid more, and they had raised their payouts every year for half a century.

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Ten years later, to the day, Walt is 72. His shares have never been touched, and the three companies have kept raising the dividend every year: Johnson & Johnson for 64 straight years, Coca-Cola for 64, Procter & Gamble for 70. The checks now add up to $14,983 a year, which is $1,249 a month, call it $1,250. He has cashed $121,100 of dividends along the way, and the $300,000 of stock is worth about $690,300 after Coca-Cola and Johnson & Johnson both closed at record highs on Friday.

Walt is a scenario. The prices, the dividend history and the tax rules are real, pulled from Alpha Vantage's daily record of each stock and from the IRS tables for 2026. Ten years of raises from household names read as proof that a retiree can out-earn a bond without taking a trader's risk. The limit sits in the same numbers: a buyer at Friday's prices gets about 2.2%, less than half of what Walt earns on his cost, and three stocks is a thin basket for anyone's income.

Johnson & Johnson closed at $116.60. That bought 857 shares for $99,926.20. The quarterly dividend was $0.80, so the shares yielded 2.74%.

Procter & Gamble closed at $83.00. That bought 1,204 shares for $99,932.00.

Coca-Cola closed at $41.17.

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