“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 Albemarle Corp. (NYSE: ALB)? Today, we examine the outcome of a five year investment into the stock back in 2014.
| Start date: | 11/13/2014 |
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| End date: | 11/12/2019 | ||||
| Start price/share: | $61.88 | ||||
| End price/share: | $65.31 | ||||
| Starting shares: | 161.60 | ||||
| Ending shares: | 175.74 | ||||
| Dividends reinvested/share: | $6.38 | ||||
| Total return: | 14.77% | ||||
| Average annual return: | 2.79% | ||||
| Starting investment: | $10,000.00 | ||||
| Ending investment: | $11,475.04 | ||||
As shown above, the five year investment result worked out as follows, with an annualized rate of return of 2.79%. This would have turned a $10K investment made 5 years ago into $11,475.04 today (as of 11/12/2019). On a total return basis, that’s a result of 14.77% (something to think about: how might ALB shares perform over the next 5 years?). [These numbers were computed with the Dividend Channel DRIP Returns Calculator.]
Notice that Albemarle Corp. paid investors a total of $6.38/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 1.47/share, we calculate that ALB has a current yield of approximately 2.25%. Another interesting datapoint we can examine is ‘yield on cost’ — in other words, we can express the current annualized dividend of 1.47 against the original $61.88/share purchase price. This works out to a yield on cost of 3.64%.
Here’s one more great investment quote before you go:
“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” — Woody Allen
