Benzinga | Dec 17, 2021 09:42AM EST

$100 Invested In This Stock Over The Last 5 Years, Would Be Worth This Much

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) has outperformed the market over the past 5 years by 13.67% on an annualized basis.

Buying $100 In GOOG: 5 years ago, an investor could have purchased 0.13 shares of Alphabet at the time with $100. This investment in GOOG would have produced an average annual return of 29.14%. Currently, Alphabet has a market capitalization of $1.92 trillion.

Alphabet's Share Price Over Last 5 Years

If you had invested $100 in Alphabet you would have approximately $360.21 today.

In other words, you would have more than tripled your money.

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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