S&P 500, short for Standard and Poor’s 500 is a US stock market index that tracks top 500 publicly traded US companies. S&P 500 is one of the market indices that measures the performance of US market performances. Let us compare how does the returns of Microsoft compare with S&P 500’s return over time.
First, we will compare the recent performances for Microsoft and S&P 500. The graph below compares the Microsoft with SP500 for last three years, starting from 1st Jan 2018.