Benzinga | Dec 28, 2021 10:25AM EST

If You Invested $1000 In This Stock 20 Years Ago, Here's How Much You Would Have Today

Darden Restaurants (NYSE:DRI) has outperformed the market over the past 20 years by 2.03% on an annualized basis.

Buying $1,000 In DRI: 20 years ago, an investor could have purchased 41.63 shares of Darden Restaurants at the time with $1,000. This investment in DRI would have produced an average annual return of 9.29%. Currently, Darden Restaurants has a market capitalization of $19.50 billion.

Darden Restaurants's Share Price Over Last 20 Years

If you had invested $1,000 in Darden Restaurants you would have approximately $6,254.06 today.

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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