Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG) has outperformed the market over the past 5 years by 3.53% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 15.51%. Currently, Intuitive Surgical has a market capitalization of $136.39 billion. Buying $1000 In ISRG: If an investor had bought $1000 of ISRG stock 5 years ago, it would be worth $2,001.35 today based on a price of $384.80 for ISRG at the time of writing. Intuitive Surgical’s Performance Over Last 5 YearsFinally — what’s the point of all this? The key insight to take from this article is to note how much of a difference compounded retur…