well you find many wealth studies – some say yes, some say no.

Let us look at the numbers…here is a calculator, but for those of us who are too lazy to use the cal..here are the numbers:

If you go back to 1896 and had invested in DJIA – Dow Jones- and invested US $ 1 how much would it be worth in 2014?

well it would be ……………

If you don’t count dividends, you end up with $437.43.  Excellent.

If you do count dividend reinvestment?  Well – it’s a whole other ballgame; you end up with $84,638.46.

Do you notice the small difference? LOL…

why would somebody do a wealth study ignoring dividends? sheer laziness.

here is the calculator…

https://dqydj.com/dow-jones-return-calculator/