If You Invested $100 In This Stock 5 Years Ago, You Would Have $500 Today

Freeport-McMoRan FCX has outperformed the market over the past 5 years by 26.45% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 39.84%. Currently, Freeport-McMoRan has a market capitalization of $77.43 billion.

Buying $100 In FCX: If an investor had bought $100 of FCX stock 5 years ago, it would be worth $541.81 today based on a price of $53.90 for FCX at the time of writing.

Freeport-McMoRan'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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