“Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.”
— Warren Buffett
The above quote from Warren Buffett is timeless, and brings into focus the choice about time horizon that any investor should think about before buying a stock they are considering. Behind every stock is an actual business; what will that business look like over a ten year period?
Today, let’s look backwards in time to 2013, and take a look at what happened to investors who asked that very question about Live Nation Entertainment Inc (NYSE: LYV), by taking a look at the investment outcome over a ten year holding period.
| Start date: | 01/30/2013 |
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| End date: | 01/27/2023 | ||||
| Start price/share: | $10.15 | ||||
| End price/share: | $80.36 | ||||
| Starting shares: | 985.22 | ||||
| Ending shares: | 985.22 | ||||
| Dividends reinvested/share: | $0.00 | ||||
| Total return: | 691.72% | ||||
| Average annual return: | 22.99% | ||||
| Starting investment: | $10,000.00 | ||||
| Ending investment: | $79,150.16 | ||||
The above analysis shows the ten year investment result worked out exceptionally well, with an annualized rate of return of 22.99%. This would have turned a $10K investment made 10 years ago into $79,150.16 today (as of 01/27/2023). On a total return basis, that’s a result of 691.72% (something to think about: how might LYV shares perform over the next 10 years?). [These numbers were computed with the Dividend Channel DRIP Returns Calculator.]
One more investment quote to leave you with:
“There’s a virtuous cycle when people have to defend challenges to their ideas. Any gaps in thinking or analysis become clear pretty quickly when smart people ask good, logical questions.” — Joel Greenblatt
