Fifty years of the S&P 500 in one view. Watch which companies joined the index, which were removed, and how the weights shifted. The herd is always evolving: rising companies join, declining ones get replaced. Use the slider or hit Play to animate through every year.
The vertical marker tracks your selected year. Every crash has been followed by a full recovery.
Approximate year-end closing prices. Logarithmic scale.
Annualized rolling returns by holding period, computed from the historical data above. The bar shows the full range of outcomes; the black line is the average.
Based on approximate historical S&P 500 price data. Past performance does not guarantee future results. For educational purposes only.