If You'd Invested $10,000 in Monster Beverage Stock 5 Years Ago, Here's How Much You'd Have Today
For example, what if you'd plunked $10,000 into shares of Monster Beverage (NASDAQ: MNST) stock five years ago, as the COVID-19 pandemic heated up? The answer isn't as pretty as it appears: Your $10,000 stake would have grown to be worth about $20,922 -- amounting to an average annual growth rate of 15.9%. Here's the problem, though: During the past five years, the stock market, as measured by the benchmark S&P 500 index, averaged way more than 10% annual gains -- it averaged 20% annual gains, in fact, enough to turn a $10,000 investment into a stake worth close to $25,000.