Calculate the compound annual growth rate between a start value and an end value — the single steady rate that explains the whole journey.
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CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) smooths an investment's growth into a single, steady annual rate — even if the real returns bounced around year to year, it tells you the constant rate that would have produced the same start-to-end result.
A simple average of yearly returns can be misleading because it ignores compounding and volatility. CAGR accounts for compounding, which is why it's the standard way to compare investment performance over multi-year periods.
Yes — if the end value is lower than the start value, CAGR will be negative, representing the steady annual rate of decline that would produce that loss.
No. CAGR describes what already happened between two points in time. It says nothing about volatility along the way and is not a guarantee of similar performance going forward.
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