alt Hacker NewsLooks like this site does: https://totalrealreturns.com/n/VFINX,VBMFX,USDOLLAR,XRX
Dividends are so out of favor now for most companies, it's not something I have personally cared that much about. But it is important to get a true picture, especially over very long timelines before tax laws changed that made buybacks more efficient.
Thanks for the total return chart. Comparing XRX to IBM was interesting. A long term XRX investor who was perceptive enough to get out before the 1999 crash would have been very happy indeed.
Something like three fourths of the S&P 500 pay a dividend, so it's not really an irrelevancy.