Why equity guy love to talk about return.

To compute the total return from owning an investment, you also have to account for the share price appreciation to compute your capital gains.

OCBC’s share price has surged by 60.6% since December 2013 to close at S$16.80.

This means that your original investment would have grown to S$31,920.

If you add in the dividends received of S$9,857.20, you will end up with S$41,777.20.

Your total return from holding those OCBC shares stands at 110.2%, which is not too shabby from holding the bank for a decade.

This translates into an annual return of 7.7% over 10 years, which easily beats the prevailing core inflation rate of around 2% to 3%.

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