S&P 500 · DCA since 2013
$500/month in S&P 500 since 2013
What a monthly $500 dollar-cost average into S&P 500 would be worth today if you'd started in January 2013 and never stopped. Real adjusted closes, T+1 execution, no transaction fees modeled.
If you invested $500/month in S&P 500 from 2013-01 to 2026-10...
$220,003
grown from $83,000 invested over 13.8 years. +$137,003 (+165.06%)
Growth over time
Dashed: cumulative invested · Solid: portfolio value
Investment schedule
- Per investment
- $500.00
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Window
- 2013-01-01 → 2026-10-21
- Duration
- 13.8 years
- Number of investments
- 166× $500.00 each
Results
- Total invested
- $83,000166 × $500.00
- Final value
- $220,003as of 2026-10-21
- Total return
- +$137,003+165.06%
- Annualized (IRR)
- 13.15%/yrcompounded over 13.8 years
What 2013 actually was: into the breakout year
In 2013 the S&P 500 finally cleared its 2007 high after six years underwater. New all-time highs felt risky to many investors — but DCA investors who started here kept buying regardless. The next decade delivered roughly three more doublings of capital. The 2013 start shows what consistency does over a long uninterrupted runway.
For a S&P 500 DCA buyer who started January 2013 with $500 a month, the schedule pulled in 166 purchases through 2026-10-21. Total invested: $83,000. Final value: $220,003. That works out to an annualized return of 13.15% per year on the irregular cashflow series.
The numbers above use adjusted closing prices (dividends reinvested, splits applied) and apply a T+1 policy: when the 1st of the month landed on a weekend or holiday, the trade executed at the next trading day's close. Bitcoin pages execute on the exact scheduled date because crypto trades 24/7.
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