You may not have enough funds to follow WB and have a meaningful stake in Coca Cola but if what if we use LWDB as the working example, this time without dividends re-invested.

If you bought at 182p, six years later you are back to the beginning, thankfully you have dividends to re-invest, wherever you think best, it could be back into LWDB as the price fell.

Your buying yield was 3.4%, which has risen to a buying yield of 17.5% on 2k capital

If you bought 1098 shares for 2k, they would be worth today £9,936.00 plus dividends or £14,087 including dividends.

The current dividend is 32p so on the current value of £9,936.00 a running yield of 3.5% (1098 shares at 32p = £351.36)

If you intend to retire on your dividend stream, you could always re-invest part in higher yielding Trusts.