S&P 500 Annual Return is at 24.23%, compared to -19.44% last year. This is higher than the long term average of 7.93%.
The S&P 500 Annual Return is the investment return received each year, excluding dividends, when holding the S&P 500 index. The S&P 500 index is a basket of 500 large US stocks, weighted by market cap, and is the most widely followed index representing the US stock market. Bouncing back from the Great Recession, the S&P 500 returned 23.45% in 2009.