Assuming typical stock - market growth, one dollar would have a value of $ 1.93 ten years from now — and $ 7.20 in thirty years.
Not exact matches
It may be somewhat useful to make comparisons to that period of time to see how certain interest rate sensitive asset classes such as junk bonds, REITs, dividend - paying
stocks or bonds performed, but my guess is that particular environment doesn't do a great job of showing investors what a
typical rising rate scenario would look like (
assuming there is such a thing).
If we
assume an aggregate dividend growth rate of 8 % (which we both know is very doable with a
typical basket of DG
stocks), the Freedom Fund will reach the $ 1000 mark in about three years.
These recovery periods would be shorter if we instead
assumed that dividends were reinvested quarterly, which is the
typical dividend payout period in the U.S. Conversely, the recovery periods would be somewhat longer if the
stock values were inflation adjusted.
It may not be a growing dividend, but how many years would one have to hold a dividend growth
stock to reach a 9 % yield,
assuming one started with a
typical yield of 3 percent?