State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

SPY · US listed

$778.40
+0.60% today

What a holder would want to know before buying SPY: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.

Where the price sits
Low $631.97 · Mar 2026High $779.09 · Oct 2026

Today’s price is 23% above the lowest point of the past year and 0% below the highest.

Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 99% of days and more expensive on 1%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on more than 99% of days.

8% above its average price of the last 200 trading days.

How bad does it get

Fell 20% or more 3 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 34%; the longest took 2.0 years to get back to its peak. Every one recovered.

Jan 2022
−25%back in 2.0 years
Feb 2020
−34%back in 6 months
Sep 2018
−20%back in 7 months
What you own

State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

The trust seeks to achieve its investment objective by holding a portfolio of the common stocks that are included in the index (the “Portfolio”), with the weight of each stock in the Portfolio substantially…

Is it expensive?

You pay $25 for every $1 of last year’s profit.

A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.

Pays no dividend.

Free data from Yahoo Finance, refreshed daily. This is evidence about the business and its price history, not a recommendation.

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