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

5 year Dow Jones Industrial Average index chartAgra Investment

DJIA performance chart in the past 5 years

DJIA performance against inflation in the last 5 years

The 5 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.

Similar charts of the past 10 years can be found here.

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 Dow Jones for the past 5 years.Hyderabad Wealth Management

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 5 years.

Treshold marked with red shows 0% return.

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 5 years.Surat Wealth Management