Understanding the S&P 500’s historical performance isn’t just an academic ... Below, we have another chart. This one shows the effect of using dollar-cost averaging for the period starting ...

History says the S&P 500 could soar in the remaining months of 2025. The S&P 500 tracks 500 large U.S. companies. The index is commonly regarded as the best benchmark for the enti ...

As you can see from the chart, both multiyear ... and with a performance that approximated the historical average return of the S&P 500 of 9%. From 1975 to 1977, the S&P 500 jumped 38.7%, giving ...

Now, let's see what history tells us about the S&P 500's performance track record. Over the past 40 years, every period of gains that started with an annual increase in the double digits was ...

The top 20 S&P 500 companies accounted for 53.2% of Q3 2024 buybacks, a marginal rise from Q2 2024’s 52.3% and above the historical average of 47.6% and the pre-COVID historical average of 44.5%.

Let’s start with the historical perspective. Most of the time the stock market has earned positive returns Figure 1 in the chart below shows the annual return in the S&P 500 since 1926 ...

In this blog, we will begin by analyzing the performance of these two newly launched indices across different economic ...

ProShares S&P 500 ® ex-Energy ... and eliminating a drag on performance. The team benefits from the fund's structure. It tracks an index, which is helpful because historical data, such as ...