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

Moodys MCO has outperformed the market over the past 20 years by 4.5% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 12.52%. Currently, Moodys has a market capitalization of $79.93 billion.

Buying $100 In MCO: If an investor had bought $100 of MCO stock 20 years ago, it would be worth $1,057.29 today based on a price of $443.27 for MCO at the time of writing.

Moodys'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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