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If You Invested $100 In This Stock 20 Years Ago, You Would Have $4,400 Today

Benzinga ·  Mar 25 17:30

Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX) has outperformed the market over the past 20 years by 12.82% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 20.71%. Currently, Vertex Pharmaceuticals has a market capitalization of $107.71 billion.

Buying $100 In VRTX: If an investor had bought $100 of VRTX stock 20 years ago, it would be worth $4,416.45 today based on a price of $417.00 for VRTX at the time of writing.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals's Performance Over Last 20 Years

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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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