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Originally Posted by GregWeld
Total RETURN --- is the stock price appreciation (if any) with dividends reinvested - over a period of time. Total return - imho - is the most critical thing you can go for with your investments. It's the real return on the money you've invested. If you were lucky enough to see 100% total return in 3 years and then manage to keep that percentage of return going for every three year period --- you can only imagine the growth of your money. Good luck with the kind of return... LOL But it does happen!!!
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Yep, either have to find something in the right stage of development or a real bargain. For example, I am planning on off-loading INTC tomorrow, it no longer meets my requirements of a bargain stock. I bought 230 shares @21.47 in Nov 2012, and another 220 shares @ 20.97 in April 2013. So my total cost was $9560 and change. Between reinvesting dividends and the current price above $34 I will sell for more than $16,600. When I bought the stock the dividend was close to 4%. Now it pays 2.6% and no longer fits the profile of the stocks I want. The way I look at it is that it was a bargain @ $21 and a good company, and it was undervalued based on the high dividend. Now that the ratio of dividend to price has dropped it is now closer to the correct value. Time for me to sell and find another stock that has an artificially depressed value.
Now do not get me wrong, Intel is a great company, and I will keep an eye on them in the future.