If You Invest $1,000 in VOO Right Now and Never Touch It, Here’s What History Says You Could Have in 25 Years As the clichéd saying goes, past performance is no guarantee of future results.
It is a pretty good indication of what’s likely, though, if the underpinnings of that performance don’t change
To this end, assuming the stock market’s long-term history repeats itself, what would, say, a $1,000 investment in the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) made today be worth 25 years from now? It’s not too tough to figure out. Crunching the numbers You can’t invest in the S&P 500 index itself.
But, you can buy an index fund like the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO) or the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEMKT: SPY) meant to mirror it. They both do a good job of matching the index’s performance, too. History says its performance is plenty promising.