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If You Invested $1000 In This Stock 10 Years Ago, You Would Have $6,000 Today

Benzinga ·  Apr 16 12:00

Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX) has outperformed the market over the past 10 years by 8.81% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 19.19%. Currently, Vertex Pharmaceuticals has a market capitalization of $102.14 billion.

Buying $1000 In VRTX: If an investor had bought $1000 of VRTX stock 10 years ago, it would be worth $6,036.05 today based on a price of $395.18 for VRTX at the time of writing.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals's Performance Over Last 10 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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