“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 Charles River Laboratories International Inc. (NYSE: CRL)? Today, we examine the outcome of a decade-long investment into the stock back in 2015.
| Start date: | 05/01/2015 |
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| End date: | 04/30/2025 | ||||
| Start price/share: | $70.62 | ||||
| End price/share: | $118.62 | ||||
| Starting shares: | 141.60 | ||||
| Ending shares: | 141.60 | ||||
| Dividends reinvested/share: | $0.00 | ||||
| Total return: | 67.97% | ||||
| Average annual return: | 5.32% | ||||
| Starting investment: | $10,000.00 | ||||
| Ending investment: | $16,797.00 | ||||
As we can see, the decade-long investment result worked out well, with an annualized rate of return of 5.32%. This would have turned a $10K investment made 10 years ago into $16,797.00 today (as of 04/30/2025). On a total return basis, that’s a result of 67.97% (something to think about: how might CRL shares perform over the next 10 years?). [These numbers were computed with the Dividend Channel DRIP Returns Calculator.]
One more piece of investment wisdom to leave you with:
“Know what you own and why you own it.” — Peter Lynch
