# Gold vs Stocks: The 10-Year Reality Check
Imagine you dropped $1K into gold back in 2015. Fast forward to today—that investment would sit at around $2,360. Looks decent, right? A 136% gain sounds solid until you stack it against the S&P 500's 174% return over the same decade.
Here's the tea: Gold averaged 13.6% annual returns while stocks clocked 17.41%. Even wilder? Gold's been all over the place historically. After Nixon ditched the gold standard in 1971, it printed 40.2% yearly returns through the 70s. Then the 80s hit and it flatlined to just 4.4% annually.
**Why people still stack gold
Imagine you dropped $1K into gold back in 2015. Fast forward to today—that investment would sit at around $2,360. Looks decent, right? A 136% gain sounds solid until you stack it against the S&P 500's 174% return over the same decade.
Here's the tea: Gold averaged 13.6% annual returns while stocks clocked 17.41%. Even wilder? Gold's been all over the place historically. After Nixon ditched the gold standard in 1971, it printed 40.2% yearly returns through the 70s. Then the 80s hit and it flatlined to just 4.4% annually.
**Why people still stack gold

