If You Bought AMD In 2013, You’re Smiling Today

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— Warren Buffett

Such a great quote from Warren Buffett, highlighting the importance of investment time horizon when considering making an investment. In the short run, who knows what the stock market will do? A week or two after buying any given stock, could the entire stock market fall out of bed? Quite possibly! Should that happen, how would you react? It is an excellent question to think about before hitting the buy button.

For investors who take a multi-year time horizon, the important thing is not what happens in the next week or two, but what the result will be over the long haul. Today, we look at the result investors of the year 2013 experienced, who considered an investment in shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc (NASD: AMD) and decided upon a ten year investment time horizon.

AMD 10-Year Return Details
Start date:	02/15/2013	$10,000 02/15/2013   $317,115 02/14/2023
End date:	02/14/2023
Start price/share:	$2.71
End price/share:	$85.95
Starting shares:	3,690.04
Ending shares:	3,690.04
Dividends reinvested/share:	$0.00
Total return:	3,071.59%
Average annual return:	41.28%
Starting investment:	$10,000.00
Ending investment:	$317,115.92

As we can see, the ten year investment result worked out exceptionally well, with an annualized rate of return of 41.28%. This would have turned a $10K investment made 10 years ago into $317,115.92 today (as of 02/14/2023). On a total return basis, that’s a result of 3,071.59% (something to think about: how might AMD shares perform over the next 10 years?). [These numbers were computed with the Dividend Channel DRIP Returns Calculator.]

Here’s one more great investment quote before you go:
“If you’re looking for a home run, a great investment for five years or 10 years or more, then the only way to beat this enormous fog that covers the future is to identify a long-term trend that will give a particular business some sort of edge.” — Ralph Wanger