“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 McCormick & Co Inc (NYSE: MKC)? Today, we examine the outcome of a five year investment into the stock back in 2019.
| Start date: | 01/03/2019 |
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| End date: | 01/02/2024 | ||||
| Start price/share: | $68.13 | ||||
| End price/share: | $69.54 | ||||
| Starting shares: | 146.78 | ||||
| Ending shares: | 159.55 | ||||
| Dividends reinvested/share: | $6.91 | ||||
| Total return: | 10.95% | ||||
| Average annual return: | 2.10% | ||||
| Starting investment: | $10,000.00 | ||||
| Ending investment: | $11,095.04 | ||||
The above analysis shows the five year investment result worked out as follows, with an annualized rate of return of 2.10%. This would have turned a $10K investment made 5 years ago into $11,095.04 today (as of 01/02/2024). On a total return basis, that’s a result of 10.95% (something to think about: how might MKC shares perform over the next 5 years?). [These numbers were computed with the Dividend Channel DRIP Returns Calculator.]
Notice that McCormick & Co Inc paid investors a total of $6.91/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 1.68/share, we calculate that MKC has a current yield of approximately 2.42%. Another interesting datapoint we can examine is ‘yield on cost’ — in other words, we can express the current annualized dividend of 1.68 against the original $68.13/share purchase price. This works out to a yield on cost of 3.55%.
Another great investment quote to think about:
“A 10% decline in the market is fairly common, it happens about once a year. Investors who realize this are less likely to sell in a panic, and more likely to remain invested, benefitting from the wealthbuilding power of stocks.” — Christopher Davis
