“Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.”
— Warren Buffett
The Warren Buffett investment philosophy calls for a long-term investment horizon, where a decade-long holding period, or even longer, would fit right into the strategy. How would such a strategy have worked out for an investment into Synopsys Inc (NASD: SNPS)? Today, we examine the outcome of a decade-long investment into the stock back in 2009.
| Start date: | 07/01/2009 |
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| End date: | 06/28/2019 | ||||
| Start price/share: | $19.66 | ||||
| End price/share: | $128.69 | ||||
| Starting shares: | 508.65 | ||||
| Ending shares: | 508.65 | ||||
| Dividends reinvested/share: | $0.00 | ||||
| Total return: | 554.58% | ||||
| Average annual return: | 20.68% | ||||
| Starting investment: | $10,000.00 | ||||
| Ending investment: | $65,483.12 | ||||
As shown above, the decade-long investment result worked out exceptionally well, with an annualized rate of return of 20.68%. This would have turned a $10K investment made 10 years ago into $65,483.12 today (as of 06/28/2019). On a total return basis, that’s a result of 554.58% (something to think about: how might SNPS shares perform over the next 10 years?). [These numbers were computed with the Dividend Channel DRIP Returns Calculator.]
More investment wisdom to ponder:
“Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.” — John Maynard Keynes
