I was thinking about all the love that VTSAX/VTI gets on this sub (and all the people asking about it) and started looking up growth rates and income numbers on portfolio visualizer. I thought it would be fun to throw them all together and look at the overall picture.
The first image is CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate). You read the chart as "If I invested in VOO in Jan 2013, my current CAGR in April 2019 would be 13.8%." I bolded the top or top few returns for each year. You can see that since 2000, both VOO and VTI(VTSAX) were pretty sure bets for the best, or close to the best return. In fact, VTI posts the best growth rate from 2002 (the first whole year after it was created) all the way until 2013.
Charts 2 and 3 bring more information to the table: 2 is the final balance of an initial $10,000 investment, and 3 is annual income of that investment. If you look at the charts together, you can see how growth rate, total return, and income work together for both high and low div ETFs.
What do you see looking at this?
Submitted April 18, 2019 at 08:43AM by thirstyinvestor http://bit.ly/2IrWaP0
