iShares S&P 500 Index (ETF) (IVV)

bahaha

A no brainer here, this stock will always slightly outperform the S&P 500 due to dividends being reinvested. Gives a slight edge in the long term.

I had thought this would under-perform because it tracked the S&P but with a 0.09% expense ratio. But, IVV also picks up the dividends, so it should out-perform.

Also, you'll notice that everyone that has green-thumbed it is winning and everyone that has red-thumbed it is losing.

It moves almost exactly the way the S&P 500 does, but with dividends.

Why is this not the most green-thumbed pick?

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IVV is designed to track the S&P 500 Index before fees. Although the fees are tiny, it will ultimately lag the index given a large enough time frame.

Higher Expense Ratio than SPY, same index. It can't win.

mirror perf - fees = underperf. shouldn't this be illegal in caps?

S&P at resistance at 1395 will pull back.

Hohoho! Funny, funny! This IS the S&P 500, get it?

But due to fees, it'll underperform slightly.

It's the market....of course it will out perform. I know that ETF's don't have a long enough record to really gauge their true performance. However, this ETF is weighted to basically mirror the S&P 500. Over the last several months that I have owned it I have seen this to be true. I am making this the foundation of my portfolio (making up about 40% of the total).

An S&P 500 ETF is a aafe thing to have in your basket. Not going to be spectacular but the big caps are undervalued based on P/E ratio and they typically have good international exposure.

Its a very low cost/expenses ETF.

Tracking purposes

Elliot Wave theory suggests a topping action. It has helped me in the past and I will stay loyal

This ETF has slightly higher fees (0.10%) than the benchmark SPY ETF (0.08%). Assuming no tracking error, SPY is a better option. (daddylight used a lot fewer characters to say th same thing. :)

iShares S&P 500 Index Fund (the Fund) seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the S&P 500 Index (the Index). The Index measures the performance of the large-cap stocks of the US equity market. This fund owns all the stocks in the S&P 500 Index, which includes more than 80% of the market's capitalization of US stocks, but leaves out most mid- and virtually all small-cap equities.

With a market capitalization slightly in excess of $18.7 billion and 500 stocks constituting the Fund, this Fund is like an elephant trying hard to dance, but no where close to giving a stunning performance. Financial sector tops the list with 21.67% share in the Fund followed by 15% in IT and 12% in healthcare, among others. The top ten companies hold a fifth of the entire Fund. While closely tracking the S&P 500, the Fund has managed to generate a return of merely 13% over the past one year.

At 0.1%, it's one of the cheapest funds that track the S&P 500 Index. But even with that tiny price tag, the case for this ETF is simply dull. In fact, there are competing ETFs that give this ETF a run for its money. For example, the Vanguard Large Cap ETF costs simply 0.07% making it the cheapest ETF in the market, giving a comparable performance. Hence, this Fund results in a less value-for-money option.

This is my secret tracking bug...and secret weapon.