Stocks Versus Bonds Long Term

Eddy Elfenbein of Crossing Wall Street looks long term at stocks versus bonds. he prepared the chart.

What I find interesting is that the spread between the returns of stocks and bonds really isn’t that much. I think would surprise many investors that boring bonds have held their own. Over the last 40 years, stocks have beaten bonds by a final score 10.5% to 8.4%.

He notes that he raised he bond yield by the 2% average difference in return to demonstrate how closely the two track one another over time.
hat tip to The Kirk Report.