Discussion ***Official*** 2025 Stock Market Thread 💰

[biostud]

I ended with 6.69% for 2025

Worst was my US sustainability index fond with -1.77%, which is not too surprising when we look at the oval office. Best was my ETF Eurostoxx600 with 20,93%.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Vanguard was up 13.8%
Fidelity was up 19.4%

Pretty solid for mostly fire and forget investing on my part.

If Trump needs to diddle a few more kids or kill a couple more Venezuelans or slap more arbitrary tariffs or give MBS/Netanyahoo/Putin a little sucky-sucky he has my support so long as the market keeps going up and my job is safe.

It goes down or my job is in danger and I get mad about stuff again.

 

[cytg111]

Not counting ASTS I am up little over 25% over two depos for 2025, dropped off a little here towards the end. Shrugs. Going rocket hunting again first thing 2026.

 

[snoopy7548]

My 401k is up 19.98% for 2025. Vanguard IRA is up 11.2%, and non-retirement investments (VTSAX) are up 14.6%. It makes early retirement, or at least a long sabbatical, very tempting.

 

[IronWing]

Quicken says my overall is 13.8% but Quicken does squirrely math with dividend and distribution reinvestments, adding them to the cost basis (good) but then calculating the rate of return using the new basis (bad).

 

[Brainonska511]

Using the crude tool provided by Vanguard for performance, when filtering for a 1-year return:

Across all accounts: 14.2%
Non-retirement: 12.8% (partly because of a more conservatively invested inherited IRA and partly because my taxable account has a chunk in cash or cash-like funds)
Retirement: 16.4% (excluding 401k held elsewhere)