If You Invested $1000 In This Stock 10 Years Ago, You Would Have $3,000 Today

American Water Works AWK has outperformed the market over the past 10 years by 2.42% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 11.84%. Currently, American Water Works has a market capitalization of $25.45 billion.

Buying $1000 In AWK: If an investor had bought $1000 of AWK stock 10 years ago, it would be worth $3,036.00 today based on a price of $130.70 for AWK at the time of writing.

American Water Works's Performance Over Last 10 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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