“I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.”
— Warren Buffett
The Warren Buffett investment philosophy calls for a long-term investment horizon, where a five year holding period, or even longer, would fit right into the strategy. How would such a strategy have worked out for an investment into Kohl’s Corp. (NYSE: KSS)? Today, we examine the outcome of a five year investment into the stock back in 2014.
| Start date: | 06/27/2014 |
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| End date: | 06/26/2019 | ||||
| Start price/share: | $53.23 | ||||
| End price/share: | $46.46 | ||||
| Starting shares: | 187.86 | ||||
| Ending shares: | 229.53 | ||||
| Dividends reinvested/share: | $10.56 | ||||
| Total return: | 6.64% | ||||
| Average annual return: | 1.29% | ||||
| Starting investment: | $10,000.00 | ||||
| Ending investment: | $10,661.86 | ||||
As we can see, the five year investment result worked out as follows, with an annualized rate of return of 1.29%. This would have turned a $10K investment made 5 years ago into $10,661.86 today (as of 06/26/2019). On a total return basis, that’s a result of 6.64% (something to think about: how might KSS shares perform over the next 5 years?). [These numbers were computed with the Dividend Channel DRIP Returns Calculator.]
Notice that Kohl’s Corp. paid investors a total of $10.56/share in dividends over the 5 holding period, marking a second component of the total return beyond share price change alone. Much like watering a tree, reinvesting dividends can help an investment to grow over time — for the above calculations we assume dividend reinvestment (and for this exercise the closing price on ex-date is used for the reinvestment of a given dividend).
Based upon the most recent annualized dividend rate of 2.68/share, we calculate that KSS has a current yield of approximately 5.77%. Another interesting datapoint we can examine is ‘yield on cost’ — in other words, we can express the current annualized dividend of 2.68 against the original $53.23/share purchase price. This works out to a yield on cost of 10.84%.
One more investment quote to leave you with:
“Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.” — Warren Buffett
