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FastTrack has been the premier provider of quality dividend adjusted ETF, fund, and stock data for many years. Serious investors know why dividends are critical. But, here’s a quick crash course in a few charts.
The 10 year chart below demonstrates the difference between dividend adjusted return vs non dividend adjusted return for VUSTX (Vanguard INV:Long-Term US Treasury).
This fund is one of the top five US funds in total assets (thus very popular and not picked to exaggerate the example)
The blue line represents VUSTX with no dividend adjustment and the gold line represents VUSTX with dividend adjustments. The blue line shows a return of 23.98%, when in reality the fund
returned 130.74%. That’s a whopping 106.76% difference in return!
Without accurate dividends, it is impossible to build the long-term, low volatility, low trading strategies that FastTrack is known for.
Another example is FMAGX (Fidelity Magellan), a very famous aggressive equity fund, since 9/1/1988 (the first date in the FastTrack database).
Again, we can see that dividends are essential to analyzing mutual funds accurately. Over the 23 year period, FMAGX appears to have posted a 38.45% gain without dividends, while accounting for dividends shows an accurate 550.92% gain over the period. Any analysis that does not account for distributions is not portraying the funds real total return. Dividend adjustment is essential for long term analysis.
In summary, FastTrack realizes the importance dividends make when assessing true total return
in investing strategies and in developing long-term trading systems. For the past 25 years the company’s mission has been to provide prompt, accurate, and comprehensive dividend adjustments. Getting an accurate view of a fund’s performance is essential to fund and ETF analysis.
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