United States New York Stock Exchange: Index: S&P 500 Total Return data was reported at 12,276.390 NA in Apr 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 12,360.210 NA for Mar 2025. United States New York Stock Exchange: Index: S&P 500 Total Return data is updated monthly, averaging 5,893.810 NA from Aug 2013 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 141 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 13,271.380 NA in Jan 2025 and a record low of 2,908.960 NA in Aug 2013. United States New York Stock Exchange: Index: S&P 500 Total Return data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Exchange Data International Limited. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.EDI.SE: New York Stock Exchange: S&P: Monthly.

View data of the S&P 500, an index of the stocks of 500 leading companies in the US economy, which provides a gauge of the U.S. equity market.

Interactive chart of the S&P 500 stock market index since 1927. Historical data is inflation-adjusted using the headline CPI and each data point represents the month-end closing value. The current month is updated on an hourly basis with today's latest value.

The S&P 500, an index of 500 publicly traded companies in the United States, closed at 5,881.63 points on the last trading day of December 2024. What is the S&P 500? The S&P 500 is a stock market index that tracks the evolution of 500 companies. In contrast to the Dow Jones Industrial Index, which measures the performance of thirty large U.S. companies, the S&P 500 shows the sentiments in the broader market. Publicly traded companies Companies on the S&P 500 are publicly traded, meaning that anyone can invest in them. A large share of adults in the United States invest in the stock market, though many of these are through a retirement account or mutual fund. While most people make a modest return, the most successful investors have made billions of U.S. dollars through investing.

Interactive chart of the S&P 500 stock market index over the last 10 years. Values shown are daily closing prices. The most recent value is updated on an hourly basis during regular trading hours.

The Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500 Index is an index of 500 leading publicly traded companies in the United States. In 2021, the index value closed at ******** points, which was the second highest value on record despite the economic effects of the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In 2023, the index values closed at ********, the highest value ever recorded. What is the S&P 500? The S&P 500 was established in 1860 and expanded to its present form of 500 stocks in 1957. It tracks the price of stocks on the major stock exchanges in the United States, distilling their performance down to a single number that investors can use as a snapshot of the economy’s performance at a given moment. This snapshot can be explored further. For example, the index can be examined by industry sector, which gives a more detailed illustration of the economy. Other measures Being a stock market index, the S&P 500 only measures equities performance. In addition to other stock market indices, analysts will look to other indicators such as GDP growth, unemployment rates, and projected inflation. Similarly, since these indicators say something about the economic future, stock market investors will use these indicators to speculate on the stocks in the S&P 500.

S&P 500 YTD Performance. Interactive chart showing the YTD daily performance of the S&P 500 stock market index. Performance is shown as the percentage gain from the last trading day of the previous year.

The S&P 500 index dropped significantly between January 3 and September 9, 2022. As of January 3, the index stood at ******** points, and it dropped approximately 15 percent by September 2022. In February 2024, the daily value of the S&P 500 increased over ***** points and reached ******** as of October 16 of the same year.

S&P 500 index data including level, dividend, earnings and P/E ratio on a monthly basis since 1870. The S&P 500 (Standard and Poor's 500) is a free-float, capitalization-weighted index of the top ...

Between March 4 and March 11, 2020, the S&P 500 index declined by ** percent, descending into a bear market. On March 12, 2020, the S&P 500 plunged *** percent, its steepest one-day fall since 1987. The index began to recover at the start of April and reached a peak in December 2021. As of December 29, 2024, the value of the S&P 500 stood at ******** points. Coronavirus sparks stock market chaos Stock markets plunged in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with investors fearing its spread would destroy economic growth. Buoyed by figures that suggested cases were leveling off in China, investors were initially optimistic about the virus being contained. However, confidence in the market started to subside as the number of cases increased worldwide. Investors were deterred from buying stocks, and this was reflected in the markets – the values of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite also dived during the height of the crisis. What is a bear market? A bear market occurs when the value of a stock market suffers a prolonged decline of more than 20 percent over a period of at least 2 months. The COVID-19 pandemic caused severe concern and sent stock markets on a steep downward spiral. The S&P 500 achieved a record closing high of ***** on February 19, 2020. However, just over 3 weeks later, the market closed on *****, which represented a decline of around ** percent in only 16 sessions.

This analysis presents a rigorous exploration of financial data, incorporating a diverse range of statistical features. By providing a robust foundation, it facilitates advanced research and innovative modeling techniques within the field of finance.

An In-depth Analysis of the S&P 500 Index: Performance, Composition, and Implications

Financial data:

• Historical daily stock prices (open, high, low, close, volume)

• Fundamental data (e.g., market capitalization, price to earnings P/E ratio, dividend yield, earnings per share EPS, price to earnings growth, debt-to-equity ratio, price-to-book ratio, current ratio, free cash flow, projected earnings growth, return on equity, dividend payout ratio, price to sales ratio, credit rating)

• Technical indicators (e.g., moving averages, RSI, MACD, average directional index, aroon oscillator, stochastic oscillator, on-balance volume, accumulation/distribution A/D line, parabolic SAR indicator, bollinger bands indicators, fibonacci, williams percent range, commodity channel index)

Machine learning features:

• Feature engineering based on financial data and technical indicators

• Sentiment analysis data from social media and news articles

• Macroeconomic data (e.g., GDP, unemployment rate, interest rates, consumer spending, building permits, consumer confidence, inflation, producer price index, money supply, home sales, retail sales, bond yields)

Potential Applications:

• Stock price prediction

• Portfolio optimization

• Algorithmic trading

• Market sentiment analysis

• Risk management

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• Researchers investigating the effectiveness of machine learning in stock market prediction

• Analysts developing quantitative trading Buy/Sell strategies

• Individuals interested in building their own stock market prediction models

• Students learning about machine learning and financial applications

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• The dataset may include different levels of granularity (e.g., daily, hourly)

• Data cleaning and preprocessing are essential before model training

• Regular updates are recommended to maintain the accuracy and relevance of the data

This dataset contains the monthly historical data of the S&P 500 index from January 1901 to May 2025, collected from Investing.com. The S&P 500 is a stock market index that tracks the performance of 500 large companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.

It is widely used as a benchmark for the U.S. equity market, representing over 80% of the total market capitalization. This dataset is suitable for:

• Time-series forecasting
• Economic event impact analysis (e.g., wars, recessions, pandemics)
• Financial visualizations in Tableau or Power BI
• Quantitative finance and portfolio management research

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• Visualizing market impact of wars, financial crises, and pandemics
• Analyzing long-term trends in the U.S. equity market
• Forecasting future index levels using machine learning
• Annotating economic history alongside market movements

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Data source: Investing.com

As of August 2020, the S&P 500 index had lost ** percent of its value due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the Great Crash, which began with Black Tuesday, remains the most significant loss in value in its history. That market crash lasted for 300 months and wiped ** percent off the index value.

纽约证券交易所：指数：S&P 500 Total Return在04-01-2025达12,276.390NA，相较于03-01-2025的12,360.210NA有所下降。纽约证券交易所：指数：S&P 500 Total Return数据按月更新，08-01-2013至04-01-2025期间平均值为5,893.810NA，共141份观测结果。该数据的历史最高值出现于01-01-2025，达13,271.380NA，而历史最低值则出现于08-01-2013，为2,908.960NA。CEIC提供的纽约证券交易所：指数：S&P 500 Total Return数据处于定期更新的状态，数据来源于Exchange Data International Limited，数据归类于全球数据库的美国 – Table US.EDI.SE: New York Stock Exchange: S&P: Monthly。

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Consolidated last sale, exchange BBO and national BBO across all US equity options exchanges. Includes single name stock options (e.g. TSLA), options on ETFs (e.g. SPY, QQQ), index options (e.g. VIX), and some indices (e.g. SPIKE and VSPKE). This dataset is based on the newer, binary OPRA feed after the migration to SIAC's OPRA Pillar SIP in 2021. OPRA is notable for the size of its data and we recommend users to anticipate several TBs of data per day for the full dataset in its highest granularity (MBP-1).

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The Standard & Poor's 500 stock index (S&P 500) is a commonly cited indicator of stock market performance. It is a scaled average of 500 large-capitalization common stocks in the United States. The companies included in the index operate in various sectors across the economy, including energy, finance, telecommunications, retail and manufacturing. The values presented in this report are the December 31 close figures. Data is sourced from the St. Louis Federal Reserve.

In 2023, the S&P 500 Information Technology Index outperformed other sectors, with annual return of **** percent. On the other hand, the S&P 500 Utilities Index recorded the lowest returns, with a loss of *** percent.

Until the fourth quarter of 2023, the S&P 500 and the S&P 500 ESG index exhibited similar performance, both indexes were weighted to similar industries as the S&P 500 followed the leading 500 companies in the United States. Throughout 2024, the S&P 500 ESG index steadily outperformed the S&P 500 by three points on average. During the coronavirus pandemic, the technology sector was one of the best-performing sectors in the market. The major differences between the two indexes were the S&P 500 ESG index was skewed towards firms with higher environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores and had a higher concentration of technology securities than the S&P 500 index. What is a market capitalization index? Both the S&P 500 and the S&P 500 ESG are market capitalization indexes, meaning the individual components (such as stocks and other securities) weighted to the indexes influence the overall value. Market trends such as inflation, interest rates, and international issues like the coronavirus pandemic and the popularity of ESG among professional investors affect the performance of stocks. When weighted components rise in value this causes an increase in the overall value of the index they are weighted too. What trends are driving index performance? Recent economic and social trends have led to higher levels of ESG integration and maintenance among firms worldwide and higher prioritization from investors to include ESG-focused firms in their investment choices. From a global survey group over one-third of the respondents were willing to prioritize ESG benefits over a higher return on their investment. These trends influenced the performance of securities on the market, leading to an increased value of individual weighted stocks, resulting in an overall increase in the index value.

Prices for United States Stock Market Index (US500) including live quotes, historical charts and news. United States Stock Market Index (US500) was last updated by Trading Economics this July 11 of 2025.

This statistic presents the returns of the S&P 500 Information Technology Index in the United States from 2007 to 2023. The IT sector had its worst year in 2008, where it lost **** percent of its value. After three years of value gain, it lost **** percent of its value in 2022. On the contrary, 2023 witnessed the second-highest value gain during this period, reaching **** percent.