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S&P 500 — Historical Charts and Data

Every S&P 500 chart, valuation metric, drawdown record, and constituent breakdown from History of Market. 22 panels, refreshed daily.

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S&P 500 · Annual Returns — Nearly a Century of Annual Verdicts Since 1928, every bar is a year-end reckoning — green for gains, red for losses. The caption below tallies up / down / flat counts and the record best and worst years, recomputed live from the data. S&P 500 · Constituents — Market Cap · 1-Year Return · Index Weight X-axis is market cap, Y-axis is trailing 12-month return, bubble size scales with index weight. Every constituent on one canvas — drag the sliders to unfold the small-cap tail. S&P 500 · Return Distribution — What Annual Returns Actually Look Like Every year since 1928 binned by total return (dividends reinvested) into eleven buckets. The 10% 'average' is only an average — real years almost never land near it. Train your intuition for the fat-tailed shape of market returns. S&P 500 · Annualized Matrix — Pick Any Entry Year, Any Exit Year Each cell below the diagonal represents a hypothetical hold. The longer the holding period, the tighter annualized returns converge toward the long-term mean. S&P 500 · 5Y Rolling — Five Years Later, the Typical Annualized Return Every five-year rolling window since 1928. Fewer than one in ten came back negative. S&P 500 · Return Decomposition — Total Return = Price + Dividend + Buyback Since 1999. The sum of all three is what an investor actually receives each year. Buybacks' share is gradually overtaking dividends as the second pillar of return. S&P 500 · Log YoY — Fourteen Crossings of Zero On a log year-over-year scale, positive is bull and negative is bear. Fourteen zero-line crossings since 1928 — each one a handoff between cycles.

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S&P 500 · TTM PE × Forward PE — S&P 500 · Trailing PE vs. Forward PE Two lines on the same axis. The trailing curve is cap-weighted Σ(w·P)/Σ(w·trailingEps) computed daily across 500 constituents and seeded with multpl monthly data for the years before that. The forward curve is Bloomberg's "BEst P/E Ratio" — the 12-month consensus estimate — quarter-end points back to 1990 plus the most recent reading, native quarterly. The gap between the two is the market's bet on where earnings are heading. Shiller CAPE · S&P 500 — Shiller CAPE — The Cycle-Smoothed P/E Uses ten-year inflation-adjusted earnings as the denominator, filtering out business-cycle noise. Historical mean is roughly 17×; today's reading sits near the upper edge of its century-long range. AIAE · Investor Allocation — AIAE — America's Equity Allocation Equity market value ÷ (equity + bonds + cash). As a predictor of ten-year forward returns, AIAE carries slightly more explanatory power than CAPE. S&P 500 · EPS (TTM) — S&P 500 Earnings Per Share (TTM) Trailing twelve months. Earnings are the source of valuation's numerator and the bedrock of long-term price. S&P 500 · ROE — S&P 500 · Return on Equity Annual profit produced per dollar of shareholder equity. Remarkably stable near 15% over the past two decades — the index's earnings-power anchor. S&P 500 · Return Decomposition (TTM) — Was it a multiple year or an earnings year? Every year's price return from 1928 onward, split into two pieces — change in TTM PE multiple and change in TTM EPS (Shiller basis). Same-sign years with one side dominant are labelled 'multiple-driven' or 'EPS-driven'; balanced same-sign years are 'both'; opposite-sign years are 'fighting'. Stacked bars above, sortable table below. The textbook years — 2008-2009, 2020, 2023-2024 — pop out immediately.

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