$1,000 invested Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (2016)
NYSE · VOO · reinvest dividends · adjusted close
●Result2016-01-04 — 2026-08-28
Today you would have
$4,560
+$3,560 (+356.05%)
VOOSPY (benchmark)
- Entry price
- $155.08
- Current price
- $707.24
- Shares
- 6.4483
- CAGR
- +15.32%
- Max Drawdown
- -33.99%
- vs SPY
- +3.25 pp
✦The story
A $1,000 investment in the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF made at the start of 2016 was worth $4,560 by mid-2026, a total return of +356.0%. That works out to about +15.3% a year simply by holding the 500 largest US companies through a decade that included the 2020 crash and the 2022 bear market. The fund tracked its S&P 500 benchmark, which returned +352.8%, almost perfectly.
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