“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 Micron Technology Inc. (NASD: MU)? Today, we examine the outcome of a twenty year investment into the stock back in 2001.
| Start date: | 03/08/2001 |
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| End date: | 03/05/2021 | ||||
| Start price/share: | $42.85 | ||||
| End price/share: | $88.93 | ||||
| Starting shares: | 233.37 | ||||
| Ending shares: | 233.37 | ||||
| Dividends reinvested/share: | $0.00 | ||||
| Total return: | 107.54% | ||||
| Average annual return: | 3.72% | ||||
| Starting investment: | $10,000.00 | ||||
| Ending investment: | $20,765.25 | ||||
As we can see, the twenty year investment result worked out as follows, with an annualized rate of return of 3.72%. This would have turned a $10K investment made 20 years ago into $20,765.25 today (as of 03/05/2021). On a total return basis, that’s a result of 107.54% (something to think about: how might MU shares perform over the next 20 years?). [These numbers were computed with the Dividend Channel DRIP Returns Calculator.]
More investment wisdom to ponder:
“I make no attempt to forecast the market; my efforts are devoted to finding undervalued securities.” — Warren Buffett
