“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 DuPont (NYSE: DD)? Today, we examine the outcome of a decade-long investment into the stock back in 2013.
| Start date: | 02/25/2013 |
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| End date: | 02/23/2023 | ||||
| Start price/share: | $61.59 | ||||
| End price/share: | $72.84 | ||||
| Starting shares: | 162.36 | ||||
| Ending shares: | 211.35 | ||||
| Dividends reinvested/share: | $25.45 | ||||
| Total return: | 53.95% | ||||
| Average annual return: | 4.41% | ||||
| Starting investment: | $10,000.00 | ||||
| Ending investment: | $15,396.46 | ||||
The above analysis shows the decade-long investment result worked out as follows, with an annualized rate of return of 4.41%. This would have turned a $10K investment made 10 years ago into $15,396.46 today (as of 02/23/2023). On a total return basis, that’s a result of 53.95% (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 $25.45/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 1.44/share, we calculate that DD has a current yield of approximately 1.98%. Another interesting datapoint we can examine is ‘yield on cost’ — in other words, we can express the current annualized dividend of 1.44 against the original $61.59/share purchase price. This works out to a yield on cost of 3.21%.
More investment wisdom to ponder:
“While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis, pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology.” — Seth Klarman
