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If you buy in right now the dividend yield would be 6.6% - not bad at all!
I bought AT&T back in March of 2010 @ $25.72 a share..............
I just looked at my AT&T shares. Like you I purchased around 775 shares at $25.67 a share (May 2010). They have been DRIPed (I think I just invented a word...) ever since.
Over the years I paid as much as $43.30 for a share, and now they are at $31.89 each.
My 775 shares have gone up to 1,566 shares during the past nine years. I guess I could have taken the money generated by AT&T (and my other equities), but didn't, as we didn't need the cash. Glad I left the dividends alone.
at&t including dividends has returned 6.56% the last 10 years , compared to 15.40% for a mere s&p 500 fund ....
what a stinker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! look at that volatility you had to endure for that too . you could have gotten 5.58% from fidelity total bond fund ........
at&t including dividends has returned 6.56% the last 10 years , compared to 15.40% for a mere s&p 500 fund ....
what a stinker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! look at that volatility you had to endure for that too . you could have gotten 5.58% from fidelity total bond fund ........
Making 6% a year isn't great, but you could have done worse. You have some of John Q Public out there earning 1.5% on CD's.
Making 6% a year isn't great, but you could have done worse. You have some of John Q Public out there earning 1.5% on CD's.
but you missed the point ..you invested in stocks and for your effort got a stinky return and more risk playing around with an individual issue then just going and buying an index ...
i speculate in individual issues but i don't hold them .. i make a quick buck and gone .. it is not worth taking on a whole other level of risk , namely individual company risk on top of the regular market risk .... unless you are being rewarded for that extra level of risk you did not do a good thing . over 10 years that return was barely better then a bond fund with dividends and all and the s&p 500 returned more than 2x that . ..
at&t including dividends has returned 6.56% the last 10 years , compared to 15.40% for a mere s&p 500 fund ....
what a stinker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! look at that volatility you had to endure for that too . you could have gotten 5.58% from fidelity total bond fund ........
To put it in real terms 100k either turned into 192k or 462k
Well it's off then because just doing the simple math shows a 250% return on his holding period. Which makes me question your SP500 figure.
Well it ain’t my figures .. this is what is shown
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