Hisar (city) Hisar pronunciation (helpÂ·info) or Hissar, is the administrative headquarters of Hisar district of Hisar division in the state of Haryana in northwestern India.
It then calculates the cumulative return and the average return in three ways -- first the numeric average of the numbers you enter, and then the cumulative return divided by the number of years, and finally by taking the cumulative return and finding the single rate that would compound to that cumulative amount over your time period.
For some reason, calculating rate of return is very common when someone is buying a company, but not very common for individual investors buying stocks. For dividend investors, the rate of return is the dividend yield plus capital appreciation on the shares themselves. Since we are pursuing a strategy of long-term investing independent of short-term fluctuations in share price, we are primarily focusing on dividend yield.