“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 ten year holding period, or even longer, would fit right into the strategy. How would such a strategy have worked out for an investment into DuPont (NYSE: DD)? Today, we examine the outcome of a ten year investment into the stock back in 2012.
| Start date: | 04/19/2012 |
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| End date: | 04/18/2022 | ||||
| Start price/share: | $70.26 | ||||
| End price/share: | $68.60 | ||||
| Starting shares: | 142.33 | ||||
| Ending shares: | 188.27 | ||||
| Dividends reinvested/share: | $26.39 | ||||
| Total return: | 29.15% | ||||
| Average annual return: | 2.59% | ||||
| Starting investment: | $10,000.00 | ||||
| Ending investment: | $12,914.59 | ||||
As we can see, the ten year investment result worked out as follows, with an annualized rate of return of 2.59%. This would have turned a $10K investment made 10 years ago into $12,914.59 today (as of 04/18/2022). On a total return basis, that’s a result of 29.15% (something to think about: how might DD shares perform over the next 10 years?). [These numbers were computed with the Dividend Channel DRIP Returns Calculator.]
Notice that DuPont paid investors a total of $26.39/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 1.32/share, we calculate that DD has a current yield of approximately 1.92%. Another interesting datapoint we can examine is ‘yield on cost’ — in other words, we can express the current annualized dividend of 1.32 against the original $70.26/share purchase price. This works out to a yield on cost of 2.73%.
Another great investment quote to think about:
“The stock market is a device to transfer money from the impatient to the patient.” — Warren Buffett
