Q: «I find the article on the best 100 stocks to retire on an excellent resource for selecting stocks for my own portfolio, but I wonder if your grades might be different if you did not include reinvested dividends in the analysis. (moneysense.ca)
We believe that selective reinvestment is far superior to automatic reinvestment because it allows you to double down on your most compelling opportunities instead of automatically reinvesting dividend payments into stocks whose prices are no longer attractive relative to their underlying earnings power. (mystockmarketbasics.com)
The next chart shows Realty Income's total return including reinvested dividends from 1994 through September 2017. (valuewalk.com)