If You Invested $1000 In This Stock 20 Years Ago, You Would Have $140 Thousand Today

Intuitive Surgical ISRG has outperformed the market over the past 20 years by 20.75% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 28.79%. Currently, Intuitive Surgical has a market capitalization of $72.38 billion.

Buying $1000 In ISRG: If an investor had bought $1000 of ISRG stock 20 years ago, it would be worth $141,123.64 today based on a price of $201.65 for ISRG at the time of writing.

Intuitive Surgical'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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