If You Invested $100 In This Stock 5 Years Ago, You Would Have $300 Today

Ingersoll Rand IR has outperformed the market over the past 5 years by 12.9% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 26.97%. Currently, Ingersoll Rand has a market capitalization of $36.57 billion.

Buying $100 In IR: If an investor had bought $100 of IR stock 5 years ago, it would be worth $316.00 today based on a price of $90.63 for IR at the time of writing.

Ingersoll Rand'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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