If You Invested $1000 In This Stock 20 Years Ago, You Would Have $78,000 Today

Amazon.com AMZN has outperformed the market over the past 20 years by 16.8% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 24.68%. Currently, Amazon.com has a market capitalization of $1.87 trillion.

Buying $1000 In AMZN: If an investor had bought $1000 of AMZN stock 20 years ago, it would be worth $77,739.77 today based on a price of $179.71 for AMZN at the time of writing.

Amazon.com'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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