If You Invested $100 In This Stock 5 Years Ago, You Would Have $200 Today

East West Bancorp EWBC has outperformed the market over the past 5 years by 2.34% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 16.6%. Currently, East West Bancorp has a market capitalization of $12.90 billion.

Buying $100 In EWBC: If an investor had bought $100 of EWBC stock 5 years ago, it would be worth $221.12 today based on a price of $93.07 for EWBC at the time of writing.

East West Bancorp'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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