OriginaveS&P 500 Quality Index
What the S&P 500 Quality Index is, where it lives officially, and how its ride has looked over the years.
What does the S&P 500 Quality Index track?
Roughly 100 companies from the S&P 500 with the tidiest books: strong return on equity, honest earnings (a clean accruals ratio) and little debt. The sensible-shoes corner of the market.
Quality is the factor your grandmother would approve of: profitable companies that don't live on borrowed money. It rarely tops the yearly charts — it just quietly refuses to blow up.
Maintained by
S&P Dow Jones Indices
S&P Dow Jones Indices
SPHQ since 2005
The chart shows the dividend-adjusted share price of SPHQ, the ETF tracking this index — not the raw index level. The shape of the ride is the same.
SPHQ returns by year (USD)
Last 5 years
+13.77%
average per year (CAGR)
Last 10 years
+14.18%
average per year (CAGR)
| Year | Total return |
|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | +20.79% |
| 2025 | +13.25% |
| 2024 | +25.44% |
| 2023 | +24.83% |
| 2022 | -15.76% |
| 2021 | +27.59% |
| 2020 | +16.93% |
| 2019 | +33.63% |
| 2018 | -7.09% |
| 2017 | +19.10% |
| 2016 | +14.30% |
| 2015 | +1.64% |
| 2014 | +16.08% |
| 2013 | +32.73% |
| 2012 | +14.32% |
| 2011 | +6.28% |
| 2010 | +20.50% |
| 2009 | +12.59% |
| 2008 | -46.35% |
| 2007 | +16.77% |
| 2006 | +4.58% |
| 2005 | -2.05% |
Calendar-year total returns of SPHQ in USD, dividends reinvested — the ETF tracking this index, not the raw index level.