What if you invested $1,000 in Total Bond Market (BND) in 2010? (Inflation-Adjusted)

BND · Bond · Adjusted to 2026 dollars using BLS CPI-U data

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Total Bond Market (BND) turned $1,000 into $1,487 between 2010 and today. Impressive on paper, but inflation over that span came to 53% (BLS CPI-U). Adjusted for that erosion in purchasing power, your real gain in constant 2010 dollars is $972, which works out to a -0.2% annualized real growth rate over 16 years.

Nominal final value

$1,487

+48.7% total return

Real value (2010 dollars)

$972

-2.8% real total return

Real annualized return

-0.2%

vs. +2.5% nominal annualized

Cumulative CPI-U inflation since 2010: 53% (1 dollar in 2010 = $1.53 in 2026)

Year-by-Year (Inflation-Adjusted)

$1,000 in Total Bond Market (BND) since 2010, values in constant 2010 dollars

YearNominal ValueReal Value (2010 $)
2010$1,000$1,000
2011$1,049$1,008
2012$1,139$1,072
2013$1,157$1,066
2014$1,158$1,052
2015$1,236$1,123
2016$1,228$1,100
2017$1,246$1,092
2018$1,278$1,086
2019$1,310$1,087
2020$1,438$1,175
2021$1,505$1,171
2022$1,459$1,040
2023$1,338$918
2024$1,366$911
2025$1,395$912
2026$1,488$973

Inflation adjustment uses BLS CPI-U annual data, deflated to 2026 dollars. Nominal stock data from Yahoo Finance (split-adjusted closing prices). Real values are expressed in constant 2010 purchasing-power dollars. For informational and educational purposes only. Not financial advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results. See our methodology and full disclaimer.