“I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.”
— Warren Buffett
The Warren Buffett investment philosophy calls for a long-term investment horizon, where a five year holding period, or even longer, would fit right into the strategy. How would such a strategy have worked out for an investment into Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS)? Today, we examine the outcome of a five year investment into the stock back in 2018.
| Start date: | 04/26/2018 |
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| End date: | 04/25/2023 | ||||
| Start price/share: | $99.84 | ||||
| End price/share: | $98.01 | ||||
| Starting shares: | 100.16 | ||||
| Ending shares: | 103.00 | ||||
| Dividends reinvested/share: | $3.48 | ||||
| Total return: | 0.95% | ||||
| Average annual return: | 0.19% | ||||
| Starting investment: | $10,000.00 | ||||
| Ending investment: | $10,095.36 | ||||
As shown above, the five year investment result worked out as follows, with an annualized rate of return of 0.19%. This would have turned a $10K investment made 5 years ago into $10,095.36 today (as of 04/25/2023). On a total return basis, that’s a result of 0.95% (something to think about: how might DIS shares perform over the next 5 years?). [These numbers were computed with the Dividend Channel DRIP Returns Calculator.]
Notice that Walt Disney Co. paid investors a total of $3.48/share in dividends over the 5 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 1.76/share, we calculate that DIS has a current yield of approximately 1.80%. Another interesting datapoint we can examine is ‘yield on cost’ — in other words, we can express the current annualized dividend of 1.76 against the original $99.84/share purchase price. This works out to a yield on cost of 1.80%.
One more investment quote to leave you with:
“The stock market is a device to transfer money from the impatient to the patient.” — Warren Buffett
