“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 decade-long holding period, or even longer, would fit right into the strategy. How would such a strategy have worked out for an investment into Wynn Resorts Ltd (NASD: WYNN)? Today, we examine the outcome of a decade-long investment into the stock back in 2010.
| Start date: | 11/16/2010 |
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| End date: | 11/13/2020 | ||||
| Start price/share: | $108.06 | ||||
| End price/share: | $92.19 | ||||
| Starting shares: | 92.54 | ||||
| Ending shares: | 140.46 | ||||
| Dividends reinvested/share: | $51.75 | ||||
| Total return: | 29.49% | ||||
| Average annual return: | 2.62% | ||||
| Starting investment: | $10,000.00 | ||||
| Ending investment: | $12,951.50 | ||||
The above analysis shows the decade-long investment result worked out as follows, with an annualized rate of return of 2.62%. This would have turned a $10K investment made 10 years ago into $12,951.50 today (as of 11/13/2020). On a total return basis, that’s a result of 29.49% (something to think about: how might WYNN shares perform over the next 10 years?). [These numbers were computed with the Dividend Channel DRIP Returns Calculator.]
Notice that Wynn Resorts Ltd paid investors a total of $51.75/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 4/share, we calculate that WYNN has a current yield of approximately 4.34%. Another interesting datapoint we can examine is ‘yield on cost’ — in other words, we can express the current annualized dividend of 4 against the original $108.06/share purchase price. This works out to a yield on cost of 4.02%.
One more investment quote to leave you with:
“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” — Woody Allen
