On July 21, the S&P 500 closed above its 20-day moving average for 60 straight days. Investors use moving averages to chart levels that could indicate some kind of breakout, meaning stocks heading ...

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The S&P 500 has reached a very high level of concentration, with the top 10 stocks driving 54% of its market cap gains since ...

Since its establishment in 1957, the S&P 500 has provided robust long-term investment performance by producing average yearly total returns upwards of 10%, before accounting for inflation–and ...

"If you had invested $1 million in the S&P 500 on January 1, 2021, your return today would be $660,000, of which more than ...

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(The SPDR S&P 500 ETF's expense ratio is 0.09%, so it isn't as cost effective an investment as the Vanguard S&P 500 Index ETF today.) Both of the graphs here are showing total return, which ...

What Happened: According to the graphic shared by Mallouk, the S&P 500 Total Return index has risen by 220% since 2015, providing a 12.3% annualized return over these 10 years.

Total market index funds that track one of these indices will contain 3,000 to 4,000 stocks that consist of every component of the S&P 500, along with thousands of other mid-cap and small-cap stocks.