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.
What this page answers
This static page is built to answer searches for S&P 500 · Annual Returns. It summarizes the live dataset behind the Nearly a Century of Annual Verdicts panel and links to the full interactive chart.
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. The data is refreshed by the History of Market pipeline and published as a stable JSON endpoint for research, citation, and AI-agent use.
Latest Snapshot
- Updated
- 2026-04-14
- Latest value
- 6,967.382026-04-14
- CAGR
- +627.00%
- Sample
- 1927-12-31 – 2026-04-14
- Observations
- 1,181
- Sample
- 1927-12-31 – 2026-04-14
Static Preview
Data & Source
GET /api/sp500/century.json — Canonical dataset endpoint.
Yahoo Finance · Macrotrends · Robert Shiller · FRED · S&P Global · Nasdaq · NBER.
FAQ
Where does this data come from?
History of Market combines public market and macro datasets including Yahoo Finance, Macrotrends, Robert Shiller, FRED, S&P Global, Nasdaq, and NBER. The exact endpoint for this panel is linked below.
How often is it updated?
Daily-tier datasets refresh after the U.S. market close, with a broader weekly refresh on Sunday. The timestamp shown on this page comes from the JSON payload.
Can I use the data?
Yes, for research and education with attribution to History of Market. Upstream data sources retain their own terms.