$1,000 invested iShares 20+ Year Treasury (2016)
NASDAQ · TLT · reinvest dividends · adjusted close
●Result2016-01-04 — 2026-10-15
Today you would have
$875
-$125 (-12.45%)
TLTSPY (benchmark)
- Entry price
- $91.34
- Current price
- $79.97
- Shares
- 10.9478
- CAGR
- -1.23%
- Max Drawdown
- -48.35%
- vs SPY
- -366.69 pp
✦The story
A $1,000 stake in the iShares 20+ Year Treasury ETF from early 2016 was worth $875 by mid-2026, a loss of −12.5% over the full decade. Long-term bonds gained in the low-rate years but gave it all back when interest rates surged after 2021, with a maximum drawdown of 48.4%. The S&P 500 returned +354.2% over the same period.
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