I pulled the high and low trading value of VNQ for the 2005 to 2015 period (all off Yahoo Finance VNQ). I also summed up the annual dividend payment for those years. Between these I figured the range of dividends you'd get if you bought VNQ in each year. For example: in 2005 the ETF traded between a low of $51.12 and a low of $63.45. The dividend total for 2005 was $3.56. If you bought at the low or high your yield would be 5.6% or 7% respectively.
Here's the chart :
And the price & dividend data :
max | min | DIV | |
12/1/2005 | 63.45 | 51.12 | 3.561 |
12/1/2006 | 81.15 | 59.16 | 3.254 |
12/3/2007 | 87.44 | 60.01 | 3.111 |
12/1/2008 | 68.95 | 22.52 | 3 |
12/1/2009 | 46.64 | 19.95 | 1.964 |
12/1/2010 | 57.65 | 40.33 | 1.891 |
12/1/2011 | 63.32 | 47.10 | 2.05 |
12/3/2012 | 69.20 | 57.03 | 2.343 |
12/2/2013 | 78.86 | 63.40 | 2.791 |
12/1/2014 | 83.09 | 64.05 | 2.919 |
12/1/2015 | 89.27 | 71.67 | 3.124 |
The yields in 2008 and 2009 are higher for people who bought VNQ at cheap prices after the market crash. In the past 5 years the dividend yield averaged 4%.
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