S&P 500 Annual Total Return is at 26.29%, compared to -18.11% last year. This is higher than the long term average of 9.95%.
The S&P 500 Annual Total Return is the investment return received each year, including dividends, when holding the S&P 500 index. The S&P 500 index is a basket of 500 large US stocks, weighted by market cap, and is the most widely followed index representing the US stock market. Bouncing back from the Great Recession, the S&P 500 returned 26.46% in 2009.