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by quickthrower2 1033 days ago
Sure. What I mean is there is only so much space in a headline. Give one stat to report the success, the weighted mean is best. It represents the laymens idea if what did I get out if I put $1 across all of it. Imagine a headline about the median SPY company growth in 2022. That number isn’t how much the SPY went up.
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> That number isn’t how much the SPY went up

neither is the return from putting $1 across all of SPY

Unless you mean I omitted the technicalities of re-balancing, it is:

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/sp500calculation...