10 years Dow Jones chart of DJIA performance

The Dow Jones Industrial Average index has been introduced on 26 May 1896 and it has 30 components.

10 year chart of the Dow Jones stock index*

The 10 year chart of Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) summarizes the chages in the price well, however, we recommend to have a look at the chart(s) below, too.

Dow Jones / DJIA index value's change in the past 10 years Dow Jones / DJIA index value's change in the past 10 years

Similar charts of the past 5 years can be found here.

10 years return graph of DJIA*

People often say that long term investments carry less risk than short term ones.
Well, on the chart below you can see if that is true for yourself in the case of DJIA for the past 10 years. You can find more details about 10 years return of Dow Jones here.

Annualized 3 and 5 years return of Dow Jones / DJIA value in the past 10 years Annualized 3 and 5 years return of Dow Jones / DJIA value in the past 10 years

What can you see on the chart?

You can calculate DJIA’s 1 month return from DJIA’s value today and DJIA’s value 30 days ago. You can also do the same calculation for yesterday and DJIA’s value 31 days ago etc. If you do this calculation for each days, you will get a curve of DJIA’s 1 month yield. The same applies to other yield periods from 3 months to 5 years.

  • This chart shows the three and the five year yield curve in the past 10 years.
  • Treshold marked with red shows 0% return.

DJIA’s performance vs. inflation*

Changes of price in case of DJIA does not carry too much meaning unless we compare it to something else like Customer Price Index (CPI), or an other index.
So this chart shows DJIA’s relative change against the US customer price index in the past 10 years.

Dow Jones / DJIA index value compared to US CPI / index in a 10 years chart Dow Jones / DJIA index value compared to US CPI / index in a 10 years chart

*charts are updated monthly, and they have been created by using Chartoasis Sesame. If you feel like analyzing DJIA’s historical price, you can do that for free at www.chartoasis.com/sesame . You will also need to download DJIA historical data. This step-by-ste guide will explain you how to do it.