He found that if a company's
dividend per share stays constant throughout a market decline, the resulting additional shares acquired and reinvested eventually surpass the magnitude of the price decline, making the investor better off than if the stock's price had never declined at all.
Not exact matches
If EPS has
stayed static while
dividends per share have quadrupled, the shareholders are doing very well indeed; but unless you are aware of significant
share issues that I have missed out on, it is unlikely that it has.
Thanks to STORE's skilled use of long - term fixed rate debt, the net cash spread (cash yield minus cost of capital) generally
stays the same, allowing for profitable growth of AFFO
per share and thus the
dividend.
If the
dividends per share were reinvested and remained constant while the stock price never recovered and
stayed 20 % below its purchase price, this seemingly unfortunate investment would eventually become more profitable after 18.9 years (red highlight, intersection point between 5 %
dividend yield and 20 % price decline) than if those same
dividends were reinvested and the stock price had remained the same throughout the period.