Eli Lilly LLY has outperformed the market by 12.7% annually over the past 15 years, with an average annual return of 24.6%. Currently, Eli Lilly has a market capitalization of $827.94 billion.

Buy for $1000 in LLY: If an investor had bought $1,000 worth of LLY stock 15 years ago, it would be worth it $26,964.81 today based on a price of $919.50 for LLY at the time of writing.

Eli Lilly’s performance for the past 15 years

Finally, what is the point of all this? The most important insight you can take away from this article is to determine how much of a difference compounding returns can make to your cash growth over time.

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