If You Invested $1000 In This Stock 20 Years Ago, You Would Have $5,400 Today

Qualcomm QCOM has outperformed the market over the past 20 years by 1.2% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 8.71%. Currently, Qualcomm has a market capitalization of $170.43 billion.

Buying $1000 In QCOM: If an investor had bought $1000 of QCOM stock 20 years ago, it would be worth $5,409.83 today based on a price of $152.60 for QCOM at the time of writing.

Qualcomm's Performance Over Last 20 Years

Finally -- what's the point of all this? The key insight to take from this article is to note how much of a difference compounded returns can make in your cash growth over a period of time.

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