A precomputed answer for Tesla (TSLA) — real month-end prices and the S&P 500 alongside it. Tesla pays no dividends, so this is price return only.
Data as of August 7, 2026
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That's what $1,000 invested in Tesla on August 8, 2016 would be worth today.
August 8, 2016 to August 7, 2026 — 10.0 years.
The same money in the S&P 500 would be $4,177 today — Tesla is ahead by $17,209.
Month-end closing prices, with dividends reinvested where the asset pays them. Excludes trading costs, spreads and taxes.
The worst stretch inside it was a -67.7% fall from a previous peak, bottoming out in 2022 — that is the loss you would have had to sit through to reach the number above. Its best complete calendar year was 2020 at +743.4%; its worst was 2022 at -65.0%. Tesla paid no dividends across this window, so every bit of the +2,038.6% is price movement. Over exactly the same months the S&P 500 returned +317.7%, so Tesla finished 1,720.9 percentage points ahead.
All of it computed from the same month-end closes the chart above draws — a description of what happened, not a forecast.
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This calculator shows what actually happened to a real price series — nothing more. Past performance is not a guide to future returns, and picking the winners in hindsight is easy in a way that picking them in advance is not. Prices exclude trading costs, spreads, currency conversion and taxes, all of which reduce real-world returns. Nothing here is investment advice; do your own research or speak to a regulated adviser before investing.
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