If You Invested $100 In This Stock 20 Years Ago, You Would Have $1,700 Today

Watsco WSO has outperformed the market over the past 20 years by 7.04% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 15.34%. Currently, Watsco has a market capitalization of $18.59 billion.

Buying $100 In WSO: If an investor had bought $100 of WSO stock 20 years ago, it would be worth $1,718.99 today based on a price of $461.27 for WSO at the time of writing.

Watsco'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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