If You Invested $1000 In This Stock 10 Years Ago, You Would Have $3,000 Today

McDonald's MCD has outperformed the market over the past 10 years by 1.15% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 11.69%. Currently, McDonald's has a market capitalization of $208.66 billion.

Buying $1000 In MCD: If an investor had bought $1000 of MCD stock 10 years ago, it would be worth $3,019.74 today based on a price of $288.95 for MCD at the time of writing.

McDonald's's Performance Over Last 10 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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