In this series of posts I am going to be looking at stocks listed on the NZX in relation to their returns to shareholders over the life of their listing -what shareholders would now see in their back pockets if they had invested in the company IPO. The calculation of returns includes dividends and tax credits.
Michael Hill International [MHI.NZ] has been a spectacular investment for those who have been shareholders since its listing in July 1987 at 65c and even better for its founder Michael Hill who established the company with one store in 1979. We will use financial data from 1996 to make our comparison. (Figures for 1987-1996 are not easily obtainable so annual and overall returns are likely to be higher)
With $1.85c in net dividends (excluding the NZX listed period 1987-1990. No data can be easily found for dividends) and 30% more in tax credits (see chart above) plus 5 share splits; two 11:10 in 1990, one 11:10 in 1991, one 11:10 in 1992 and one 10:1 in 2007 gives MHI a slightly more than 1415% return (see chart below for the share price percentage gain against the average of all NZX indexes - does not include dividends and tax credits in its calculation) over the nearly 20 year listing of MHI (again, the period between 1987 and 1990 is excluded because no share price or dividend details are available so the return will be higher than stated here for this period), an approximate annual net return of over 70%.
This is approximately a 470% better return when compared to the average of all NZX indexes.
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