Post #2701 by mungofitch on the Mechanical Investing board

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The problem with most of the places that do charts is they are price only and don't include reinvested dividends. That can make a HUGE difference.

FYI, stockcharts.com is one site that by default includes reinvested dividends.
You can also see the price-only returns of something by putting "_" before the ticker.

Since you can also graph the ratio of two tickers, you can see the change due to dividends by doing a chart of XYZ:_XYZ
For example, this is a graph of the difference that dividends have made to the returns of Ford in the last 5 years.
https://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=F%3A_F&p=D&yr=5&...

Jim

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