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$10,000 in the S&P 500 tracker: price only vs dividends reinvested, year-end 2006 to July 2026

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-08-03, from Price Return vs Total Return: The Real Gap.

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$10,000 in the S&P 500 tracker: price only vs dividends reinvested, year-end 2006 to July 2026 — 20 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
yearprice_only_usdreinvested_usddividend_share_pct
200711755119711.8
2008724775564.1
2009894795456.3
201010100109868.1
2011100831119710
2012114371298311.9
2013148161715813.7
2014165001948215.3
2015163721973317
2016179472209618.8
2017214262689120.3
2018200802568421.8
2019258423367923.3
2020300143986024.7
2021381255131325.7
2022307034199726.9
2023381625299928
2024470466617528.9
2025547407789829.7
2026599568577530.1
Rows × columns
20 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for $10,000 in the S&P 500 tracker: price only vs dividends reinvested, year-end 2006 to July 2026, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
year number 2,007 to 2,026
price_only_usd number 7,247 to 59,956 US dollars
reinvested_usd number 7,556 to 85,775 US dollars
dividend_share_pct number 1.8 to 30.1 percent

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.

the exact SQL behind every number
WITH daily AS (
    SELECT toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS d,
           argMax(toFloat64(close), window_start) AS close
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
      AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) >= toDate('2005-12-01')
      AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) <= toDate('2026-07-31')
      AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
           + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
    GROUP BY d
),
base AS (
    SELECT argMax(close, d) AS start_px
    FROM daily
    WHERE d <= toDate('2005-12-31')
),
year_end AS (
    SELECT toYear(d) AS year,
           argMax(close, d) AS close,
           max(d) AS last_day
    FROM daily
    WHERE d >= toDate('2006-01-01')
    GROUP BY year
),
reinvest AS (
    SELECT dv.ex_dividend_date AS d,
           log(1 + toFloat64(dv.cash_amount) / dl.close) AS log_growth
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends AS dv
    INNER JOIN daily AS dl ON dl.d = dv.ex_dividend_date
    WHERE dv.ticker = 'SPY'
      AND dv.cash_amount > 0
      AND dv.ex_dividend_date >= toDate('2006-01-01')
      AND dv.ex_dividend_date <= toDate('2026-07-31')
)
SELECT ye.year AS year,
       round(10000 * ye.close / any(b.start_px)) AS price_only_usd,
       round(10000 * ye.close / any(b.start_px) * exp(sum(ri.log_growth))) AS reinvested_usd,
       round(100 * (1 - exp(-sum(ri.log_growth))), 1) AS dividend_share_pct
FROM year_end AS ye, reinvest AS ri, base AS b
WHERE ri.d <= ye.last_day
GROUP BY ye.year, ye.close
ORDER BY year

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