View monthly updates and historical trends for S&P 500 Monthly Total Return. from United States. Source: Standard and Poor's. Track economic data with YCh…

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.

View yearly updates and historical trends for S&P 500 Annual Total Return. from United States. Source: Standard and Poor's. Track economic data with YChar…

View monthly updates and historical trends for S&P 500 12 Month Total Return. from United States. Source: Standard and Poor's. Track economic data with YC…

United States New York Stock Exchange: Index: S&P 500 Total Return data was reported at 15,441.150 NA in Jan 2026. This records an increase from the previous number of 15,220.450 NA for Dec 2025. United States New York Stock Exchange: Index: S&P 500 Total Return data is updated monthly, averaging 6,138.730 NA from Aug 2013 (Median) to Jan 2026, with 150 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 15,441.150 NA in Jan 2026 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 monthly updates and historical trends for S&P 500 2 Year Return. from United States. Source: Standard and Poor's. Track economic data with YCharts an…

View monthly updates and historical trends for S&P 500 10 Year Return (DISCONTINUED). from United States. Source: Standard and Poor's. Track economic data…

Historical year-by-year S&P 500 price returns and total returns (including dividends), including an automatically updated YTD value for the current year.

S&P 500 Historical Annual Returns - Historical chart and current data through 2026.

View monthly updates and historical trends for S&P 500 5 Year Return (DISCONTINUED). from United States. Source: Standard and Poor's. Track economic data …

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.

Context

The Standard and Poor's 500 is a stock market index tracking the performance of 500 large companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States. It is one of the most commonly followed equity indices. As of December 31, 2020, more than $5.4 trillion was invested in assets tied to the performance of the index.

Inspiration

This dataset can be used to create some interesting visualizations and identify how stock prices of a particular company vary over time. Working with stock data is one of the best ways to get acquainted with timeseries forecasting. Can you create a model to stay one step ahead of the market and make statistically informed trading decisions?

Content

The naming convention of the files are in the form ticker.csv. The individual files contain the historical stock price data of that company. All the files have the following columns: - Date: The date is in the format yy-mm-dd - Open: Price of the stock when the market opens - High: Highest price reached in the day - Low: Lowest price reached in the day - Close: Price of the stock when the market closes - Volume: Number of shares traded in a day - Dividends: The dividends of the stock - Stock Splits: The stock splits of the company. In a stock split, a company divides its existing stock into multiple shares to boost liquidity.

Acknowledgement

Credits to Yahoo Finance that simplified the process of scraping stock data.

A dataset of key technical indicators for S&P 500 Total Return, including RSI and MACD, used for technical analysis.

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.

View monthly updates and historical trends for S&P 500 3 Year Return (DISCONTINUED). from United States. Source: Standard and Poor's. Track economic data …

This dataset provides a comprehensive collection of historical stock data for all the companies listed on the S&P 500 index. It includes details such as daily open, close, high, low prices, and volume for each listed company. The dataset is intended to help researchers, investors, and data scientists gain insights into the performance of these companies and explore trends, patterns, or anomalies in the stock market.

The S&P 500, an index of 500 publicly traded companies in the United States, closed at ******** 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.

In August 2018, the U.S. based global real estate company Cushman & Wakefield completed an initial public offering and as of December 2019 before the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the cumulative total return of a 100 U.S. dollar investment had reached ****** U.S. dollars. In comparison, an equivalent investment in S&P 500 or peer group companies would have reached ***** U.S. dollars and ***** U.S. dollars, respectively. As of December 2023, the cumulative total return of a 100 U.S. dollars invested in Cushman & Wakefield in 2018, S&P 500, and peer group companies was ***** U.S. dollars, ****** U.S. dollars, and ****** U.S. dollars, respectively.

View monthly updates and historical trends for S&P 500 1 Year Return (DISCONTINUED). from United States. Source: Standard and Poor's. Track economic 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

Column Descriptions

Potential Use Cases:

• 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

Citation:

Data source: Investing.com