“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 Apartment Investment & Management Co (NYSE: AIV)? Today, we examine the outcome of a five year investment into the stock back in 2014.
| Start date: | 06/10/2014 |
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| End date: | 06/07/2019 | ||||
| Start price/share: | $31.49 | ||||
| End price/share: | $51.25 | ||||
| Starting shares: | 317.56 | ||||
| Ending shares: | 373.71 | ||||
| Dividends reinvested/share: | $6.76 | ||||
| Total return: | 91.53% | ||||
| Average annual return: | 13.90% | ||||
| Starting investment: | $10,000.00 | ||||
| Ending investment: | $19,156.18 | ||||
As shown above, the five year investment result worked out quite well, with an annualized rate of return of 13.90%. This would have turned a $10K investment made 5 years ago into $19,156.18 today (as of 06/07/2019). On a total return basis, that’s a result of 91.53% (something to think about: how might AIV shares perform over the next 5 years?). [These numbers were computed with the Dividend Channel DRIP Returns Calculator.]
Notice that Apartment Investment & Management Co paid investors a total of $6.76/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 1.56/share, we calculate that AIV has a current yield of approximately 3.04%. Another interesting datapoint we can examine is ‘yield on cost’ — in other words, we can express the current annualized dividend of 1.56 against the original $31.49/share purchase price. This works out to a yield on cost of 9.65%.
Another great investment quote to think about:
“When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.” — Peter Lynch
