“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 ten year holding period, or even longer, would fit right into the strategy. How would such a strategy have worked out for an investment into Texas Instruments Inc. (NASD: TXN)? Today, we examine the outcome of a ten year investment into the stock back in 2009.
| Start date: | 07/30/2009 |
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| End date: | 07/29/2019 | ||||
| Start price/share: | $24.15 | ||||
| End price/share: | $129.97 | ||||
| Starting shares: | 414.08 | ||||
| Ending shares: | 525.16 | ||||
| Dividends reinvested/share: | $13.53 | ||||
| Total return: | 582.55% | ||||
| Average annual return: | 21.17% | ||||
| Starting investment: | $10,000.00 | ||||
| Ending investment: | $68,262.09 | ||||
The above analysis shows the ten year investment result worked out exceptionally well, with an annualized rate of return of 21.17%. This would have turned a $10K investment made 10 years ago into $68,262.09 today (as of 07/29/2019). On a total return basis, that’s a result of 582.55% (something to think about: how might TXN shares perform over the next 10 years?). [These numbers were computed with the Dividend Channel DRIP Returns Calculator.]
Notice that Texas Instruments Inc. paid investors a total of $13.53/share in dividends over the 10 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 3.08/share, we calculate that TXN has a current yield of approximately 2.37%. Another interesting datapoint we can examine is ‘yield on cost’ — in other words, we can express the current annualized dividend of 3.08 against the original $24.15/share purchase price. This works out to a yield on cost of 9.81%.
Another great investment quote to think about:
“The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.” — Benjamin Graham
