Wednesday, February 2, 2011

New post after almost five years

It's been nearly 5 years since the last post. My life has had a lot of changes during this period. Yet the stocking market continues. In the last post UOB KeyHian was at $1.31. Today it is $1.81. Also count its dividends in these five years time.

The last five years are important to stock investors. We encountered "big bull" in 2007, "great financial crisis" in 2008, "massive quantitative easing" since 2009 till today and possible to 2012. Let me calculate the return rate of UOB KH:

Dividends: 2007: 0.195, 2008: 0.124, 2009: 0.075, 2010: 0.08.
Price gain: 0.50.
Return rate = (0.195 + 0.124 + 0.075 + 0.08 + 0.50) / 1.31 = 74%

I think an annual return rate of about 14.8% is satisfactory in this example.

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