If You Invested $100 In This Stock 15 Years Ago, You Would Have $600 Today

American Express AXP has outperformed the market over the past 15 years by 1.74% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 12.04%. Currently, American Express has a market capitalization of $105.30 billion.

Buying $100 In AXP: If an investor had bought $100 of AXP stock 15 years ago, it would be worth $569.02 today based on a price of $144.50 for AXP at the time of writing.

American Express'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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