The four-year total return for the S & P 500 since March 23, 2020, is just about 150%, or 25.7% annualized.
.SPX mountain 2020-03-23 S & P 500 since the Covid low This is, of course, an idealized starting point from which to measure performance.
While the S & P 500 bottomed at around a three-year low under 2,200, the index spent only a few weeks under 2,500.
More qualitatively, it's a bull market, and in a bull market the overshoots occur to the upside, so a rally being "ahead of itself" is not fatal.
And the S & P 500 is only 9% higher than it was more than two years ago, hardly reaching escape velocity from planet Sanity.
Persons:
–, Warren, Ned Davis, Tim Hayes, bullishness, Rocky White
Organizations:
HSBC, 3Fourteen, Bank of Japan, Fed, Ned Davis Research, Schaeffer's Investment Research, Intelligence, Bank of America