West Pharmaceutical Servs (NYSE:WST) has outperformed the market over the past 15 years by 10.86% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 21.89%. Currently, West Pharmaceutical Servs has a market capitalization of $28.50 billion.

Buying $1000 In WST: If an investor had bought $1000 of WST stock 15 years ago, it would be worth $18,708.01 today based on a price of $385.81 for WST at the time of writing.

West Pharmaceutical Servs's Performance Over Last 15 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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