If You Invested $100 In This Stock 20 Years Ago, You Would Have $500 Today

Occidental Petroleum OXY has outperformed the market over the past 20 years by 1.02% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 8.38%. Currently, Occidental Petroleum has a market capitalization of $64.99 billion.

Buying $100 In OXY: If an investor had bought $100 of OXY stock 20 years ago, it would be worth $488.96 today based on a price of $69.77 for OXY at the time of writing.

Occidental Petroleum'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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