If You Invested $100 In This Stock 10 Years Ago, You Would Have $500 Today

Alphabet GOOGL has outperformed the market over the past 10 years by 6.96% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 17.75%. Currently, Alphabet has a market capitalization of $1.84 trillion.

Buying $100 In GOOGL: If an investor had bought $100 of GOOGL stock 10 years ago, it would be worth $512.91 today based on a price of $147.94 for GOOGL at the time of writing.

Alphabet's Performance Over Last 10 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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