(A green trend-line represents the bond.)
R.O.R. Calculator
Rate of Return is Cash paid to share holders out of earnings, plus growth due to earnings invested in the company. the sum of annual cash Paid to shareholders rather than financing further growth.
dividend and growth of a company. To predict future growth Percent per year increase in what you own.
rate this calculator draws The curve is the interest equation banks use.
It follows straight lines on log plots and an "interest rate" comes directly out of those straight lines.
a curve through past Price history, dividend history and EPS history.
If they agree at around 7/yr it is a desirable investment to just hold and not trade.
history.
Our goal is NOT to " After pressing GO you will see "range up/dn", where traders buy and sell hoping for extra gains.
That does not work well! You are trading against roblts.
beat the market", but to look for The ability to grow company earnings, while still paying growing dividends, rather than simply growing in price.
intrinsic value. in There is a moral issue too - don't take somebody else's savings away.
investments.***
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*** In practical terms, "not fighting the market" means The slope of a straight line on a log plut gives %/yr.
Your job; enter two points and the number of years between them.
price growth along a long steady For "intrinsic value" the width of the trend is about three years worth of growth.
Your job; enter top and bottom of trend and the date they occur.
visual trend, and similar Shows management's estimate of %/yr company growth.
Program fits same equation through scattered points.
dividend growth and This should track the other two %/yr R.O.R.s and payout should not be too high.
earnings growth. Click on a symbol above (or This goes directly to the calculator instead of showing a chart.
enter one) and press [Go] to do this Same equation fishes out %/yr for you. Data from Annual Reports and the website.
balancing act.