If You Invested $100 In This Stock 20 Years Ago, You Would Have $1,600 Today

McDonald's MCD has outperformed the market over the past 20 years by 7.49% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 14.89%. Currently, McDonald's has a market capitalization of $205.21 billion.

Buying $100 In MCD: If an investor had bought $100 of MCD stock 20 years ago, it would be worth $1,612.25 today based on a price of $278.92 for MCD at the time of writing.

McDonald's'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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