“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 Dominos Pizza Inc. (NYSE: DPZ)? Today, we examine the outcome of a five year investment into the stock back in 2019.
| Start date: | 08/30/2019 |
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| End date: | 08/29/2024 | ||||
| Start price/share: | $226.84 | ||||
| End price/share: | $412.96 | ||||
| Starting shares: | 44.08 | ||||
| Ending shares: | 46.53 | ||||
| Dividends reinvested/share: | $20.44 | ||||
| Total return: | 92.13% | ||||
| Average annual return: | 13.94% | ||||
| Starting investment: | $10,000.00 | ||||
| Ending investment: | $19,210.40 | ||||
As we can see, the five year investment result worked out quite well, with an annualized rate of return of 13.94%. This would have turned a $10K investment made 5 years ago into $19,210.40 today (as of 08/29/2024). On a total return basis, that’s a result of 92.13% (something to think about: how might DPZ shares perform over the next 5 years?). [These numbers were computed with the Dividend Channel DRIP Returns Calculator.]
Notice that Dominos Pizza Inc. paid investors a total of $20.44/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 6.04/share, we calculate that DPZ has a current yield of approximately 1.46%. Another interesting datapoint we can examine is ‘yield on cost’ — in other words, we can express the current annualized dividend of 6.04 against the original $226.84/share purchase price. This works out to a yield on cost of 0.64%.
Here’s one more great investment quote before you go:
“I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don’t believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody’s that smart.” — Charlie Munger
