Uses Technical Analysis and Calculus to treat stocks the
same as bonds.
(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.***
Stock Symbol:
Portfolio: ETFs:Stored:***
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.