If You Invested $1000 Over The Past 5 Years In This Stock, Here's How Much You Would Have Today

Kansas City Southern KSU has outperformed the market over the past 5 years by 12.73% on an annualized basis.

Buying $1,000.00 In KSU: 5 years ago, an investor could have purchased 11.7 shares of Kansas City Southern at the time with $1,000.00. This investment in KSU would have produced an average annual return of 28.02%. Currently, Kansas City Southern has a market capitalization of $26.22 billion.

Kansas City Southern's Share Price Over Last 5 Years

This $1,000.00 investment would be worth $3,639.75 today based on a price of $288.22 for KSU at the time of writing. In other words, you would have more than tripled your money.

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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