“When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.”
— Warren Buffett
The Warren Buffett investment philosophy calls for a long-term investment horizon, where a twenty year holding period, or even longer, would fit right into the strategy. How would such a strategy have worked out for an investment into Akamai Technologies Inc (NASD: AKAM)? Today, we examine the outcome of a twenty year investment into the stock back in 2000.
| Start date: | 07/10/2000 |
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| End date: | 07/09/2020 | ||||
| Start price/share: | $114.88 | ||||
| End price/share: | $114.22 | ||||
| Starting shares: | 87.05 | ||||
| Ending shares: | 87.05 | ||||
| Dividends reinvested/share: | $0.00 | ||||
| Total return: | -0.57% | ||||
| Average annual return: | -0.03% | ||||
| Starting investment: | $10,000.00 | ||||
| Ending investment: | $9,940.14 | ||||
As shown above, the twenty year investment result worked out poorly, with an annualized rate of return of -0.03%. This would have turned a $10K investment made 20 years ago into $9,940.14 today (as of 07/09/2020). On a total return basis, that’s a result of -0.57% (something to think about: how might AKAM shares perform over the next 20 years?). [These numbers were computed with the Dividend Channel DRIP Returns Calculator.]
One more piece of investment wisdom to leave you with:
“The idea that a bell rings to signal when to get into or out of the stock market is simply not credible. After nearly fifty years in this business, I don’t know anybody who has done it successfully and consistently.” — Jack Bogle
