If You Invested $1000 In This Stock 20 Years Ago, You Would Have $4,900 Today

Hershey HSY has outperformed the market over the past 20 years by 1.01% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 8.35%. Currently, Hershey has a market capitalization of $38.60 billion.

Buying $1000 In HSY: If an investor had bought $1000 of HSY stock 20 years ago, it would be worth $4,929.75 today based on a price of $188.76 for HSY at the time of writing.

Hershey'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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