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SPY · State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
Over the last 15 years (2011-10 to 2026-10), $10,000 invested in SPY with dividends reinvested grew to $87,442, 15.46% a year, with a worst peak-to-trough fall of -23.93%. Past performance doesn't predict future results.
Growth of $10,000 · 2011-10 to 2026-10 · dividends reinvested
How SPY held up in past market crashes
SPY has been through 5 of the market crashes since 2000 in our data. Its deepest price fall was 56.5% in the 2008 financial crisis. It took 4.0 years from the bottom to get back to its high. No fund is safe from losses; past falls do not predict future ones.
| Crash | SPY deepest fall | Peak to bottom | Back to peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dot-com bust | -49.1% | Mar 2000 to Oct 2002 | 4.7 years |
| 2008 financial crisis | -56.5% | Oct 2007 to Mar 2009 | 4.0 years |
| 2018 fourth-quarter selloff | -20.2% | Sep 2018 to Dec 2018 | 4 months |
| 2020 COVID crash | -34.1% | Feb 2020 to Mar 2020 | 5 months |
| 2022 bear market | -25.4% | Jan 2022 to Oct 2022 | 15 months |
Price declines in the fund's listing currency, dividends not included, inside each crash's S&P 500 peak-to-bottom window. See how 50 popular ETFs compare in the crash study.
About SPY
State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust is an exchange-traded fund designed to provide broad exposure to large-cap U.S. equities by tracking the S&P 500 Index.
Fund description from our market-data provider.
Put SPY to the test
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Would SPY survive 2008? →
What actually happened to it in the crisis: real drawdown and recovery.
Project it forward →
Monte Carlo simulation of where it could go from here.
Compare SPY vs VTI →
Side by side with the total US market: returns, drawdowns and volatility over their shared history.
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Fundamentals →
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