If You Invested $100 In This Stock 20 Years Ago, You Would Have $1,300 Today

Norfolk Southern NSC has outperformed the market over the past 20 years by 5.19% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 13.57%. Currently, Norfolk Southern has a market capitalization of $56.28 billion.

Buying $100 In NSC: If an investor had bought $100 of NSC stock 20 years ago, it would be worth $1,275.10 today based on a price of $248.90 for NSC at the time of writing.

Norfolk Southern's Performance Over Last 20 Years

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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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