A chart of just the price, where you used the dividends to pay your bills.

As usual timing then timein.

The chart includes the earned dividends, that were re-invested back into your Snowball.

The chart includes if you simply re-invested the dividends back into the share, buying more shares and therefore earning more dividends.

With the higher yielding Trusts, higher yield equates higher risk, it would be better to re-invest elsewhere in your Snowball, just in case you have bought a clunker.

If you bought in 2023, you could expect to earn a gently rising yield of 8% plus, while remembering no dividend is entirely safe.