This Is What Passive Income Looks Like in January 2026
MaxDividends Mission: Helping people build growing passive income, retire early, and live off dividends.
At MaxDividends we track more than 19,000 companies worldwide — but only the elite make it into this list: businesses that have been paying dividends for 10+ years without a cut.
Hi — Max here.
Let me show you something most investors never see. While the market is busy screaming about inflation, AI, and the next crash… real companies quietly sent their owners more money.
Not promises. Not analyst targets. Actual cash. This is what it looks like when the world pays you.
🌍 What just happened (January 1–12, 2026)
Across the U.S., Canada, and Japan, dozens of elite companies raised their dividends.
Not risky yield traps. Not “story stocks.”
These are businesses with:
• 10–30 year dividend streaks
• 90+ Financial Strength scores
• Rising free cash flow
• Real customers
• Real pricing power
A few highlights:
🇯🇵 Japan is becoming a dividend growth engine
Cybozu +33%
EM Systems +29%
Itoki +24%
🇺🇸 U.S. income machines
ServisFirst Bank +13.4%
Ensign Group +4%
Bristol-Myers +1.6%
Enterprise Products — 27th year in a row
🇨🇦 Canadian infrastructure cash flow
Terravest +11%
Badger — Financial Score 98
This is not luck. This is what happens when you own the right businesses. The world pays people who do.
⚠️ Here’s the painful truth
Most investors never see this money.
They stare at price charts.
They chase yield.
They own random ETFs.
So they miss:
• Global dividend growth
• Japanese software paying like utilities
• Regional U.S. banks quietly compounding
• Infrastructure companies raising payouts through every cycle
They think dividends are “boring.” Meanwhile… their paycheck is going to someone else.
🧠 The anchor that changes everything
There are companies that:
• Pay you
• Grow
• Survive recessions
• Raise dividends year after year
And there is a way to find them systematically. That is what we built.
The MaxDividends Income System tracks more than 19,000 companies worldwide and filters them down to the businesses that actually fund your future.
This Weekly Dividend Hikes report is just one output of that machine. The system does the rest.
💸 This is how people really live off dividends
Not by guessing. Not by picking one stock.
But by owning hundreds of rising cash flows across the world. Week after week. Raise after raise. Dollar after dollar.
That’s what you saw above. And that’s what the MaxDividends Income System is designed to do.
👉 Enter the MaxDividends Income System
Turn the world’s best dividend-paying companies into your personal income stream.
The world is already paying someone. The only question is: is it paying you?
— Max