“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 PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI)? Today, we examine the outcome of a five year investment into the stock back in 2014.
| Start date: | 12/19/2014 |
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| End date: | 12/18/2019 | ||||
| Start price/share: | $43.77 | ||||
| End price/share: | $94.65 | ||||
| Starting shares: | 228.47 | ||||
| Ending shares: | 233.65 | ||||
| Dividends reinvested/share: | $1.40 | ||||
| Total return: | 121.15% | ||||
| Average annual return: | 17.20% | ||||
| Starting investment: | $10,000.00 | ||||
| Ending investment: | $22,112.51 | ||||
As we can see, the five year investment result worked out exceptionally well, with an annualized rate of return of 17.20%. This would have turned a $10K investment made 5 years ago into $22,112.51 today (as of 12/18/2019). On a total return basis, that’s a result of 121.15% (something to think about: how might PKI shares perform over the next 5 years?). [These numbers were computed with the Dividend Channel DRIP Returns Calculator.]
Notice that PerkinElmer, Inc. paid investors a total of $1.40/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 .28/share, we calculate that PKI has a current yield of approximately 0.30%. Another interesting datapoint we can examine is ‘yield on cost’ — in other words, we can express the current annualized dividend of .28 against the original $43.77/share purchase price. This works out to a yield on cost of 0.69%.
One more investment quote to leave you with:
“If you’re prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won’t get bored.” — Peter Lynch
