Several charts on this page include our own calculations of such data. The S&P 500’s history tells a compelling story of American economic growth, though not without its dramatic ups and downs.

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 ...

The NASDAQ-100 is widely followed as a measure mainly of the big tech and social media stocks that make up the index.

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%.

Although stocks moving higher is nothing new on Wall Street, the magnitude by which the broad-based S&P 500 has been rising in recent years is in rarified territory -- and its historic ...

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 ...

RBC Capital Markets said on Monday that the recent downturn of the S&P 500 is based on patterns from previous years. However, net bullishness on the AAII survey has fallen to 2.9% as of 1-9-25 ...

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%.

The advantage of looking at 10 years of inflation-adjusted earnings history is that it smooths out the impact that unforeseen shock events might have on earnings per share. The S&P 500's Shiller P ...