If You Invested $1000 In This Stock 15 Years Ago, You Would Have $8,500 Today

Baidu BIDU has outperformed the market over the past 15 years by 7.27% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 15.78%. Currently, Baidu has a market capitalization of $49.55 billion.

Buying $1000 In BIDU: If an investor had bought $1000 of BIDU stock 15 years ago, it would be worth $8,533.23 today based on a price of $141.73 for BIDU at the time of writing.

Baidu's Performance Over Last 15 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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