Thursday, January 5, 2012

Investing account update

Some important observations for the investing account I wanted to bring up in a text only blog entry. No video due to things about to get mathy...

Walmart WMT finally got its first dividend in the Model Portfolio. It seems like I purchased it a long time ago and it had 0 DRIP shares. So whats the big payoff? $1.58 a quarter. A bit anti climactic seeing as how ERF and JNK pay more then that each month. So why bother with Walmart with its 2.5% yield when I could be loading up on JNK at 7.5% and ERF at 9.7%?

It has to do with the other half of dividend investing. The growth part.  WMT has a 10 year average of raising their dividend by over 17%. Right now it pays $0.37 per quarter. Assuming it maintains its pattern each year that will get raised. $0.43, $0.50, $0.59, $0.69, $0.81
In 5 years it will have doubled what it pays now. Inflation can be rough but will gas be $6/gallon in 5 years? Will milk cost that much? I do not see prices doubling in that time. This means we will start coming out ahead.
In 15 years when I hope to quit each WMT share today will pay $3.89.
That means my original $250 investment of 4.3373 shares will be making $16.87 a quarter. $67.43 a year.
Thats nearly 27% yield on cost. Again that is without the compounding power of DRIP shares.

Wait a minute. If dividend growth stock increases like that for decades how come we don't have blue chip stocks paying that much now? To pay a $3.89/quarter at a 2.5% yield WMT stock will need to be $622 a share. That doesnt seem possible right? It is if we add in stock splits.  Give 4 stock splits of 2:1 each and we end up with a share price of $38 paying out $0.24 dividends.

For the record I do not expect WMT to continue growing at that pace for the next 15 years.
On the other hand WMT investors 15 years ago with their $12 share price and $0.025 dividend probably didn't expect the values of today.

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2 comments:

  1. Great post, I'd like to see you have the same growth the last 15 years has seen

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  2. WMT is that steady winner who over time will provide a force field around our portfolios. Great piece to your portfolio. Thanks for the insight! http://www.dividendstockinvestingforthecommonman.com

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