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

Walmart WMT has outperformed the market over the past 5 years by 4.82% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 18.41%. Currently, Walmart has a market capitalization of $755.86 billion.

Buying $1000 In WMT: If an investor had bought $1000 of WMT stock 5 years ago, it would be worth $2,341.71 today based on a price of $94.09 for WMT at the time of writing.

Walmart'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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