If You Invested $1000 In This Stock 20 Years Ago, You Would Have $8,600 Today

Global Payments GPN has outperformed the market over the past 20 years by 3.1% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 11.41%. Currently, Global Payments has a market capitalization of $24.65 billion.

Buying $1000 In GPN: If an investor had bought $1000 of GPN stock 20 years ago, it would be worth $8,560.02 today based on a price of $96.59 for GPN at the time of writing.

Global Payments's Performance Over Last 20 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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