[nathanasmith]

I use TradingView for most of my charting and at the bottom right side there's a button labeled "adj". Clicking it will toggle whether the chart you're viewing is dividend adjusted or not. Very convenient for quick off the cuff comparisons of returns.

Using SPY I can easily see the non adjusted returns from the bottom of the GFC to the top in 2021/2022 were a little over 600% but then accounting for dividends see it's actually a bit over 800%.

[compumike]

For SPY, from 2009-03-09 to 2022-01-03, I get +588.5% total real return, +16.24%/year, after adjusting for dividends and inflation:

https://totalrealreturns.com/s/SPY?start=2009-03-09&end=2022...

[nathanasmith]

I'm pretty sure Tradingview doesn't take inflation into account.