How to get stocks' total return?

[risterian]

Divakar Ramachandran <divakar07 at dataone.in> wrote:

>On Friday 14 September 2012 07:46 PM, Manoj Kumar wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Advance portfolio report will list the dividend received under "Income" column if the dividend transaction includes the stock account. Both debit and credit columns for the stock account split should be left empty.
>>
>> You can also check this thread (reply of Jannick Asmus) http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Advanced-Portfolio-and-dividend-in-cash-was-How-to-register-a-dividend-in-cash-td1433051.html.
>>
>> Regards,
>
>This worked very well for stocks but the effect is very different for
>mutual funds even though both are defined very similarly. If I try this
>method with a mutual fund account, the advanced portfolio shows the
>income under Money out instead of realised gain; realised gain,
>unrealised gain and total gain columns just display the currency symbol
>while total gain is listed as 0.00%. Unable to understand why there
>should be a difference at all.
>
>Divakar

Divakar, I cannot replicate your results - a Mutual Fund works 
the same as a Stock in my test, when using the method in:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581191#c1


>>> To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
>>> From: en9e-60hk at dea.spamcon.org
>>> Subject: How to get stocks' total return?
>>> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:58:59 -0700
>>>
>>> I recently imported data from Money to GnuCash.  
>>>
>>> Money made it very easy to see the total return of a stock - 
>>> offers Annual Return, and ROI All Dates.  
>>>
>>> GnuCash doesn't seem to have that.
>>>
>>> The Advanced Portfolio report purports to show Total Return and 
>>> Rate of Return, but is incomplete - it leaves out anything 
>>> received in cash instead of shares - that is, non-reinvested 
>>> dividends and capital gains.  The import process put them in
>>> their own accounts such as 
>>> Investing Income:Dividends:Etrade:Stock-Name 
>>> and there seems to be nothing that ties them up together.
>>>
>>> Is there some report or screen or something where I can see the 
>>> actual total return?
>>>
>>> Or, is there some means by which I can move all of the cash 
>>> transactions back to where they belong, with cash info under the 
>>> stock account itself, so the report shows correctly?  Hopefully
>>> without manually doing it one by one.
>>>
>>> Or, is there some alternate method of finding out total return?
>>>
>>> I looked for "return" on the FAQ web page and didn't see anything 
>>> pertinent.
>>>
>>> Ref: Windows XP SP2, GnuCash 2.4.11