What is the 100 year average return on the S&P 500?

1 According to historical records, the average annual return since its inception in 1926 through 2018 is approximately 10\%–11\%. The average annual return since adopting 500 stocks into the index in 1957 through 2018 is roughly 8\%.

What is the S&P 500 rate of return for 2020?

S&P 500 Historical Annual Returns

S&P 500 Index – Historical Annual Data
Year	Average Closing Price	Annual \% Change
2021	4,256.56	23.02\%
2020	3,217.86	16.26\%
2019	2,913.36	28.88\%

What is the return on S&P 500?

S&P 500 Returns

S&P 500 1 Year Return	26.10\%
S&P 500 10 Year Return	266.3\%
S&P 500 3 Year Return	65.46\%
S&P 500 5 Year Return	107.7\%

What is the average annual return from the S&P 500?

The average annual return from the S&P 500 from inception about 90 years ago until the present time is about 10\% a year. That includes a combination of 7\% real return and 3\% from inflation. Keep in mind the fact that there have been decades along the way when the return was negative.

How much would $100 invested in the S&P 500 have grown in 1970?

If you had invested $100 in the S&P 500 index at the beginning of 1970, it would have grown to nearly $15400 by the end of 2019 (inclusive of dividends) In the below chart you easily can check the annual return of the S&P 500 index (Includes Dividends) from 1970 to 2019.

What is the S&P 500 Index?

Historical S&P 500 Returns The S&P 500 Index originally began in 1926 as the “composite index” comprised of only 90 stocks.

What are the S&P index returns?

The S&P index returns start in 1926 when the index was first composed of 90 companies. The name of the index at that time was the Composite Index or S&P 90. In 1957 the index expanded to include the 500 components we now have today. The returns include both price returns and re-invested dividends.