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S&P 500 price history: year by year
How the price of the S&P 500 did each year: where it started and ended, its high and low, its return and its deepest fall, and how far it is from its record.
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Daily prices since Jan 2019. Source: Baroq data.
At a glance
| Last close | 7,685.0 26 Oct 2026 |
|---|---|
| Record close | 7,828.0 06 Oct 2026 |
| From the record | -1.8% |
| Deepest fall from a high | -34.3% 3,388.3 on 17 Feb 2020 to 2,226.3 on 23 Mar 2020 won back on 18 Aug 2020 |
Year by year
Each year's first and last close, its highest and lowest price, its return and its deepest fall from a closing high. * this year so far.
| Year | First close | Last close | High | Low | Return | Deepest fall in the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026* | 6,855.5 | 7,685.0 | 7,845.0 06 Oct | 6,312.5 31 Mar | +12.2% | -9.3% |
| 2025 | 5,870.2 | 6,847.7 | 6,944.1 26 Dec | 4,799.9 07 Apr | +16.4% | -19.0% |
| 2024 | 4,745.1 | 5,884.4 | 6,099.9 06 Dec | 4,663.5 05 Jan | +23.4% | -8.7% |
| 2023 | 3,821.7 | 4,766.9 | 4,795.1 29 Dec | 3,793.1 03 Jan | +24.0% | -10.4% |
| 2022 | 4,794.1 | 3,844.0 | 4,817.5 04 Jan | 3,490.1 13 Oct | -19.6% | -25.3% |
| 2021 | 3,703.3 | 4,781.7 | 4,808.4 30 Dec | 3,659.9 04 Jan | +28.1% | -5.3% |
| 2020 | 3,260.3 | 3,731.6 | 3,755.7 29 Dec | 2,182.5 23 Mar | +15.9% | -34.3% |
| 2019 | 2,684.4 | 3,218.8 | 3,251.5 27 Dec | 2,637.3 30 Jan | no data | -6.8% |
The full numbers
Descriptive, not a forecast: what a price did in past years says nothing certain about the next one.
How to read it
- Return is the year's last close against the last close of the year before. The first year in the prices has none, because the year before is not here.
- High and Low are the highest and lowest prices reached in the year, with the day they happened.
- Deepest fall in the year is the biggest drop from a closing high to a later close within the same year.
- Record means the highest close in these prices, which start in the month shown. An earlier price may have been higher.
- The past says nothing certain about the next year. It describes the past and forecasts nothing.
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