On this page you'll find the S&P 500's price to peak earnings ratio, including its maximum, minimum, average, and median since 1871. You can choose to adjust for inflation (CPI), or use the nominal peak earnings. Additionally, find a visualization tool plus a table with the historical price to peak earnings ratio. S&P 500 Price […]
On this page you'll find the current S&P 500 dividend yield, summary statistics on its maximum, minimum, average, and median since 1871, as well as the history of the S&P 500's dividend yield. Also, find our dividend yield visualization for the S&P 500 and a table with historical dividend yield by month data. S&P 500 […]
Just below you'll find the current S&P 500 earnings yield, summary statistics on the maximum, minimum, average, and median earnings yield over time, and the history of the S&P 500's earnings yield. Also, find an earnings yield visualization over time, plus a historical database of earnings yield on the S&P 500. Alternatively, you can view […]
On this page you'll find the current S&P 500 price to earnings ratio, summary statistics on the maximum, minimum, average, and median P/E reading, and the history of the S&P 500 P/E ratio. Find a S&P 500 PE Ratio visualization and calculator, as well as the monthly P/E ratio history until today. Looking for the […]
In the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances, the average household reported $8,665.03 in education debt. The median household reported $0 in student loans. Only 21.4% of households reported carrying any student debt at all. But – the SCF doesn't give us a full snapshot of the data. While very useful for seeing the household distribution […]
In 2019, the average American household held $75,968.96 in mortgage debt, home equity loans, and HELOCs with balances secured by their primary residence. The median household held $0 – although the homeownership rate is well over 60%. The average household also held $9,562.92 in debt secured by other residential property – think second and vacation […]
The average American household carried a $2,846.81 credit card balance in 2019. That debt was concentrated in only a few households, however – the median household carried no balance cycle to cycle, while the top 10% of households had $8,500 in credit card debt. 54.6% of households held no credit card debt balance from month to month. In this […]
Happy New Year! 🎉 And it feels particularly sweet to say that – though the beginning of 2021 looks a lot like the end of 2020. It's great to close the books on a devastating year, though; the world saw something like 84 million confirmed COVID cases and 1.8 million deaths. Among them – my grandmother. […]
Bitcoin returned 307.83% in 2020, not including any transaction fees. After midnight (in the morning) on January 1, 2020, bitcoin's first trade was at $7,205.55 a coin. And the closing trade on December 31, 2020, before midnight was for $29,374.15 a coin. The 2020 Bitcoin Return: Speculation, and Greater Acceptance 307.8% is an eye popping […]
The S&P 500 Price index returned 15.76% in 2020. Using a better calculation including dividend reinvestment, the S&P 500 returned 17.88%. Maximizing 2020 S&P 500 Return: Buying, Holding... and Reinvesting The numbers I quote in the intro assume you did all of your investing in a single year. That is, you bought the absolute opening […]
