If You Invested $1000 In This Stock 5 Years Ago, You Would Have $2,000 Today

Moody's MCO has outperformed the market over the past 5 years by 3.12% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 15.17%. Currently, Moody's has a market capitalization of $71.22 billion.

Buying $1000 In MCO: If an investor had bought $1000 of MCO stock 5 years ago, it would be worth $2,040.75 today based on a price of $390.09 for MCO at the time of writing.

Moody's's Performance Over Last 5 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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