Why are dividends shown on a separate line?

It makes the contribution of dividend income visible. With reinvestment turned off, you can see how much cash the position paid you over time versus how much came from price appreciation. Turn DRIP on to fold dividends back into share growth.

Can I download the video?

Yes — downloading the animation as a shareable video is available on the Pro and Advanced plans. Free accounts can create and watch replays (10 per day) in the browser.

Is this a prediction?

No. Growth Replay shows how a portfolio would have performed on real historical data. Past performance doesn't guarantee future results, and figures are gross of taxes and trading costs.

Growth Replay

Watch your money grow. Pick a stock, ETF, or portfolio, add an optional recurring contribution, and press play — your equity curve animates across market history with contributions, price growth, and dividends shown as three separate lines. Change the speed, scrub the timeline, and see exactly where your returns came from.

Educational use only — not investment advice

This tool is for educational and informational purposes only and does not provide financial, investment, tax, legal, or accounting advice. Results are hypothetical and based on historical data and assumptions that may be inaccurate. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Consult a licensed professional before making investment decisions.

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What is the Growth Replay?

Pick a stock, ETF, or portfolio, add an optional recurring contribution, and watch an animated time-lapse of your money growing — with dividends and price growth as separate lines.

Growth Replay turns a backtest into a story you can watch. Choose any stock, ETF, or portfolio, set a start and end date, and add an optional recurring contribution (dollar-cost averaging). Press play and your equity curve animates across market history as three separate lines: what you contributed, the market value of your shares (price growth), and the cash dividends you collected along the way. Change the playback speed, scrub through time, and see exactly how compounding and reinvested dividends built — or didn't build — your wealth. Pro and Advanced members can download the animation as a shareable video.

How to use it

1Pick a stock or ETF (e.g. VOO, AAPL) — or add several tickers to replay a whole portfolio.
2Set a start and end date, an initial investment, and an optional recurring contribution.
3Press Run, then play the animation — adjust the speed or scrub the timeline, and watch dividends and price growth race each other.

What you'll get

✓An animated time-lapse of your equity curve
✓Three separate lines: contributions, price growth, and dividends
✓Live running totals as the animation plays
✓Playback speed control (0.25× to 2×) and timeline scrubbing
✓Final contributions, growth, dividends, and total value
✓Downloadable video (Pro & Advanced)

New here? See it in action

$500/month into VOO since 2010 — Replay a decade-plus of dollar-cost averaging into the S&P 500 and watch contributions, price growth, and dividends separate over time.

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Stock, ETF or portfolio

Start date

End date

Initial investment

Recurring contribution

Reinvest dividends (DRIP)— off shows dividends as a separate line

How the Growth Replay works

Contributions buy shares at each period's split-adjusted price; the price-growth line is the market value of the shares you hold; the dividends line accumulates the cash paid on each ex-date in proportion to shares held. With DRIP off, dividends accumulate as cash on a separate line; with DRIP on, that cash buys more shares and the dividends line tracks income received. Prices and dividends come from Twelve Data. Results are hypothetical and gross of taxes and trading costs.