“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
— 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 Molson Coors Beverage Co (NYSE: TAP)? Today, we examine the outcome of a twenty year investment into the stock back in 2002.
| Start date: | 06/21/2002 |
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| End date: | 06/17/2022 | ||||
| Start price/share: | $30.43 | ||||
| End price/share: | $50.37 | ||||
| Starting shares: | 328.62 | ||||
| Ending shares: | 495.18 | ||||
| Dividends reinvested/share: | $21.32 | ||||
| Total return: | 149.42% | ||||
| Average annual return: | 4.68% | ||||
| Starting investment: | $10,000.00 | ||||
| Ending investment: | $24,964.84 | ||||
The above analysis shows the twenty year investment result worked out as follows, with an annualized rate of return of 4.68%. This would have turned a $10K investment made 20 years ago into $24,964.84 today (as of 06/17/2022). On a total return basis, that’s a result of 149.42% (something to think about: how might TAP shares perform over the next 20 years?). [These numbers were computed with the Dividend Channel DRIP Returns Calculator.]
Notice that Molson Coors Beverage Co paid investors a total of $21.32/share in dividends over the 20 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 1.52/share, we calculate that TAP has a current yield of approximately 3.02%. Another interesting datapoint we can examine is ‘yield on cost’ — in other words, we can express the current annualized dividend of 1.52 against the original $30.43/share purchase price. This works out to a yield on cost of 9.92%.
One more piece of investment wisdom to leave you with:
“When everyone is going right, look left.” — Sam Zell
