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

MercadoLibre MELI has outperformed the market over the past 5 years by 16.75% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 33.89%. Currently, MercadoLibre has a market capitalization of $106.58 billion.

Buying $100 In MELI: If an investor had bought $100 of MELI stock 5 years ago, it would be worth $444.20 today based on a price of $2102.38 for MELI at the time of writing.

MercadoLibre'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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