How this is worked out
What stocks, bonds and cash did since 1928
Pick one, pick the years, see what it became.
Share in stocks. The rest is in bonds. Reset every year.
Look at periods of. How often a period of this length lost money.
Side by side. Past results, from Aswath Damodaran’s table. Taxes and fees are not included.
What US$10,000 became. Today’s dollars, end of each year. The side scale jumps by multiples, so equal heights mean equal percentage growth.
Your answer in words. US$10,000 in stocks in 1928 grew to US$6,173,325 by 2025, in today’s dollars. That is growth of 6.8% a year after inflation.
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US inflation 3.4% (August 2026, US Bureau of Labor Statistics)
How every calculator on the site is built, and what changed and when, is on How it works.