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    Measures of Historical Rates of Return

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    To properly evaluate investments, one must accurately compare their historical rates of return. The return on an investment is the change in wealth from cash inflows like interest or dividends, or price changes. The holding period return is calculated by dividing the ending value by the starting value. This value is then converted to an annual percentage rate return by deriving the holding period yield and annual holding period return.

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    To properly evaluate investments, one must accurately compare their historical rates of return. The return on an investment is the change in wealth from cash inflows like interest or dividends, or price changes. The holding period return is calculated by dividing the ending value by the starting value. This value is then converted to an annual percentage rate return by deriving the holding period yield and annual holding period return.

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    To properly evaluate investments, one must accurately compare their historical rates of return. The return on an investment is the change in wealth from cash inflows like interest or dividends, or price changes. The holding period return is calculated by dividing the ending value by the starting value. This value is then converted to an annual percentage rate return by deriving the holding period yield and annual holding period return.

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    Measures of Historical Rates of Return

    When you are evaluating alternative investments for inclusion in your portfolio, you will often
    be comparing investments with widely different prices or lives. As an example, you might want
    to compare a $10 stock that pays no dividends to a stock selling for $150 that pays dividends of
    $5 a year. To properly evaluate these two investments, you must accurately compare their
    historical rates of returns. A proper measurement of the rates of return is the purpose of this
    section.

    When we invest, we defer current consumption in order to add to our wealth so that we can
    consume more in the future. Therefore, when we talk about a return on an investment, we are
    concerned with the change in wealth resulting from this investment. This change in wealth can
    be either due to cash inflows, such as interest or dividends, or caused by a change in the price of
    the asset (positive or negative).

    If you commit $200 to an investment at the beginning of the year and you get back $220 at the
    end of the year, what is your return for the period? The period during which you own an
    investment is called its holding period, and the return for that period is the holding period return
    (HPR). In this example, the HPR is 1.10, calculated as follows:

    This value will always be zero or greater—that is, it can never be a negative value. A value
    greater than 1.0 reflects an increase in your wealth, which means that you received a positive rate
    of return during the period. A value less than 1.0 means that you suffered a decline in wealth,
    which indicates that you had a negative return during the period. An HPR of zero indicates that
    you lost all your money.

    Although HPR helps us express the change in value of an investment, investors generally
    evaluate returns in percentage terms on an annual basis. This conversion to annual percentage
    rates makes it easier to directly compare alternative investments that have markedly different
    characteristics. The first step in converting an HPR to an annual percentage rate is to derive a
    percentage return, referred to as the holding period yield (HPY). The HPY is equal to the HPR
    minus 1.

    In our example:

    To derive an annual HPY, you compute an annual HPR and subtract 1. Annual HPR is found by:

    where:

    n = number of years the investment is held

    Consider an investment that cost $250 and is worth $350 after being held for two years:

    If you experience a decline in your wealth value, the computation is as follows:

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