“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 Invesco Ltd (NYSE: IVZ)? Today, we examine the outcome of a five year investment into the stock back in 2019.
| Start date: | 03/20/2019 |
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| End date: | 03/19/2024 | ||||
| Start price/share: | $19.73 | ||||
| End price/share: | $15.41 | ||||
| Starting shares: | 506.84 | ||||
| Ending shares: | 645.19 | ||||
| Dividends reinvested/share: | $4.09 | ||||
| Total return: | -0.58% | ||||
| Average annual return: | -0.12% | ||||
| Starting investment: | $10,000.00 | ||||
| Ending investment: | $9,940.11 | ||||
As shown above, the five year investment result worked out poorly, with an annualized rate of return of -0.12%. This would have turned a $10K investment made 5 years ago into $9,940.11 today (as of 03/19/2024). On a total return basis, that’s a result of -0.58% (something to think about: how might IVZ shares perform over the next 5 years?). [These numbers were computed with the Dividend Channel DRIP Returns Calculator.]
Notice that Invesco Ltd paid investors a total of $4.09/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 .8/share, we calculate that IVZ has a current yield of approximately 5.19%. Another interesting datapoint we can examine is ‘yield on cost’ — in other words, we can express the current annualized dividend of .8 against the original $19.73/share purchase price. This works out to a yield on cost of 26.31%.
More investment wisdom to ponder:
“Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.” — Benjamin Graham
