Microsoft MSFT has outperformed the market by 15.11% on an annual basis over the past 10 years and has produced a compound annual return of 24.8%. Microsoft currently has a market cap of $2.39 trillion.

Buying $1000 in MSFT: If an investor bought $1,000 worth of MSFT stock 10 years ago, it would have been worth it $9,163.62 today based on MSFT price of $320.88 at the time of writing.

Microsoft’s performance over the past 10 years

Finally: What is the point of all this? The most important takeaway from this article is how big a difference total return can make to your cash growth over a period of time.

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