If You Invested $1000 In This Stock 5 Years Ago, You Would Have $3,300 Today

West Pharmaceutical Servs WST has outperformed the market over the past 5 years by 15.41% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 26.97%. Currently, West Pharmaceutical Servs has a market capitalization of $25.36 billion.

Buying $1000 In WST: If an investor had bought $1000 of WST stock 5 years ago, it would be worth $3,299.69 today based on a price of $342.75 for WST at the time of writing.

West Pharmaceutical Servs's Performance Over Last 5 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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