If You Invested $100 In Occidental Petroleum Stock 5 Years Ago, You Would Have This Much Today

Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY) has outperformed the market over the past 5 years by 9.23% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 22.45%. Currently, Occidental Petroleum has a market capitalization of $41.03 billion.

Buying $100 In OXY: If an investor had bought $100 of OXY stock 5 years ago, it would be worth $264.28 today based on a price of $41.65 for OXY at the time of writing.

Occidental Petroleum's Performance Over Last 5 Years

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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