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Looks like VFINX returned 8.8% since 2022-05-01. How did you get to 18%?

I cherrypicked a day in May 2022 from here that gave something like 14% growth (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EGSPC?p=%5EGSPC), and IIRC the dividends is like 2% annually

Edit: tweaking your link to May 11 gets it up to 14.8%, and I'm not sure if it's just using the opening price or the lowest of the day

why would you cherry pick a diff day when it should be May 1st?

maybe it was "steel manning": pick a particularly hard-to-beat baseline