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

Westinghouse Air Brake WAB has outperformed the market over the past 5 years by 10.27% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 26.22%. Currently, Westinghouse Air Brake has a market capitalization of $30.08 billion.

Buying $1000 In WAB: If an investor had bought $1000 of WAB stock 5 years ago, it would be worth $3,304.96 today based on a price of $176.06 for WAB at the time of writing.

Westinghouse Air Brake'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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