calculating return from shares

Seawolf

when estimating potential return, do you add growth for the past year to dividend yield? (yes I do know that past performance has nothing to do with future performance). So if it grew by 20% last year say, and it pays 5% dividend yield, then if I'd invested a year ago, my return would have been 25%?:)

[Deleted User]

Hi,

you've got, it right, google total return or total shareholder return.

Look.