An interesting fact. Do you know which stock has been the best performing since 1925 in the US stock market?

It is Altria, a tobacco company founded in 1925, which has achieved a compound annual return of 16.3% from 1925 to 2023. Every $1 invested in Altria in 1925 would have grown to $2.7 million by 2023. This is the magic of compounding.