$1,000 invested iShares 20+ Year Treasury (2016)
NASDAQ · TLT · reinvest dividends · adjusted close
●Result2016-01-04 — 2026-08-28
Today you would have
$907
-$93 (-9.26%)
TLTSPY (benchmark)
- Entry price
- $91.34
- Current price
- $82.88
- Shares
- 10.9478
- CAGR
- -0.91%
- Max Drawdown
- -48.35%
- vs SPY
- -362.07 pp
✦The story
A $1,000 stake in the iShares 20+ Year Treasury ETF from early 2016 was worth $907 by mid-2026, a loss of −9.3% 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 +352.8% over the same period.
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