If You Invested $1000 In This Stock 5 Years Ago, You Would Have $2,700 Today

Martin Marietta Materials MLM has outperformed the market over the past 5 years by 9.27% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 22.12%. Currently, Martin Marietta Materials has a market capitalization of $30.35 billion.

Buying $1000 In MLM: If an investor had bought $1000 of MLM stock 5 years ago, it would be worth $2,706.12 today based on a price of $491.03 for MLM at the time of writing.

Martin Marietta Materials'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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