Annualized SPY price growth over rolling eight-year windows, by starting year end

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 2026-07-31, from The 8-4-3 Rule for Mutual Funds, Explained.

Rows × columns

14 × 3

Computed

2026-07-31

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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What each column holds

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 2026-07-31, and the query below is what returned them.

WITH ye AS (
    SELECT toYear(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS year,
           argMax(close, window_start) AS px
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
      AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) BETWEEN toDate('2004-12-01') AND toDate('2025-12-31')
      AND (toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
           + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York'))) BETWEEN 570 AND 959
    GROUP BY year
)
SELECT a.year AS start_year,
       round((pow(b.px / a.px, 1.0 / 8) - 1) * 100, 2) AS annualized_8y_pct,
       round(b.px / a.px, 2) AS multiple_after_8y
FROM ye AS a
INNER JOIN ye AS b ON b.year = a.year + 8
WHERE a.year >= 2004 AND a.year <= 2017
ORDER BY start_year