Why saving a figure in pdf makes a dot much bigger than it is?

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I am plotting the following figure:
y1 = [0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.25, 0.2];
y2 = [0.1, 0.15, 0.18, 0, 15];
x = 1:numel(y1); % [EDITED, Jan]
h = figure;
plot(x,y1,'*-r', 'LineWidth', 1)
hold on
plot(x, y2, '*-k', 'LineWidth',1)
hold on
plot(4.5,-0.27619,'k.', 'LineWidth', 20, 'MarkerSize', 20)
box on
hold on
yline(0.15,'--','Easing threshold')
xticklabels({'July 6','July 13','July 20','July 27'})
xtickangle(45)
ylim([-0.4 0.4])
title('Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT): August 02, 2012')
set(gca,'Units','normalized')
titleHandle = get( gca ,'Title' );
pos = get( titleHandle , 'position' );
pos1 = pos + [0 0.05 0]
set( titleHandle , 'position' , pos1 );
legend('Output', 'Price', 'Financial', 'Forecast', 'Monetary', 'Rates and Spreads', 'Surveys', 'Textual', 'MP Stance', 'Easing Probability', 'Actual Realization','Orientation', 'horizontal', 'Location', 'southoutside', 'NumColumns',2)
set(h,'Units','Inches');
pos = get(h,'Position');
set(h,'PaperPositionMode','Auto','PaperUnits','Inches','PaperSize',[pos(3), pos(4)])
print(h,'test','-dpdf','-r0')
The issue is that when I save it in pdf the dot becomes incredibly big (it is normal size before in matlab) as shown by the image below (the figure dispalyes is slightly different from the ones coded above):
Can anyone tell me how to correct it?
Thanks!
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Jan
Jan on 1 May 2021
Edited: Jan on 1 May 2021
See [EDITED]: I've adjusted the sizes of y1 and y2 and inserted some data for x.

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Jan
Jan on 1 May 2021
Edited: Jan on 1 May 2021
plot(4.5,-0.27619,'k.', 'LineWidth', 20, 'MarkerSize', 20)
% Omit the line width:
plot(4.5,-0.27619,'k.', 'MarkerSize', 20)
It looks like MarkerSize and LineWidth are multiplied.

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