S&P 500 Return Calculator - Real and Nominal Prices from 1927

Use this calculator to compute the total return, annualized return plus a summary of winning (profitable) and losing (unprofitable) buy and sell combinations using S&P 500 inflation-adjusted (real) or nominal monthly price data. S&P 500 monthly closing prices are from S&P 500 Index | Monthly from 1927. Monthly closing prices are from 12/1/1927 to the present month. Because the S&P 500 Index is a price index and not a total return index, the prices do not include dividends.

S&P 500 Return Calculator - Monthly Prices from 1927
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NOTE: I  refresh the monthly prices the first of each month and refresh the current price regularly, but not on every trading day. So the current price displayed by the calculator may not always be the latest closing price

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