“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 Constellation Brands Inc (NYSE: STZ)? Today, we examine the outcome of a ten year investment into the stock back in 2009.
| Start date: | 10/19/2009 |
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| End date: | 10/17/2019 | ||||
| Start price/share: | $16.75 | ||||
| End price/share: | $197.29 | ||||
| Starting shares: | 597.01 | ||||
| Ending shares: | 629.27 | ||||
| Dividends reinvested/share: | $9.38 | ||||
| Total return: | 1,141.49% | ||||
| Average annual return: | 28.65% | ||||
| Starting investment: | $10,000.00 | ||||
| Ending investment: | $124,193.23 | ||||
The above analysis shows the ten year investment result worked out exceptionally well, with an annualized rate of return of 28.65%. This would have turned a $10K investment made 10 years ago into $124,193.23 today (as of 10/17/2019). On a total return basis, that’s a result of 1,141.49% (something to think about: how might STZ shares perform over the next 10 years?). [These numbers were computed with the Dividend Channel DRIP Returns Calculator.]
Notice that Constellation Brands Inc paid investors a total of $9.38/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/share, we calculate that STZ has a current yield of approximately 1.52%. Another interesting datapoint we can examine is ‘yield on cost’ — in other words, we can express the current annualized dividend of 3 against the original $16.75/share purchase price. This works out to a yield on cost of 9.07%.
One more piece of investment wisdom to leave you with:
“The stock market is a device to transfer money from the impatient to the patient.” — Warren Buffett
