If You Invested $1000 In This Stock 20 Years Ago, You Would Have $7,100 Today

Becton Dickinson BDX has outperformed the market over the past 20 years by 3.21% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 10.3%. Currently, Becton Dickinson has a market capitalization of $72.88 billion.

Buying $1000 In BDX: If an investor had bought $1000 of BDX stock 20 years ago, it would be worth $7,077.64 today based on a price of $251.15 for BDX at the time of writing.

Becton Dickinson'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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