What if you invested $1,000 in Visa in 2010? (Inflation-Adjusted)

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Visa turned $1,000 into $16,604 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 $10,852, which works out to a +15.9% annualized real growth rate over 16 years.

Nominal final value

$16,604

+1560.4% total return

Real value (2010 dollars)

$10,852

+985.2% real total return

Real annualized return

+15.9%

vs. +18.9% 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 Visa since 2010, values in constant 2010 dollars

YearNominal ValueReal Value (2010 $)
2010$1,000$1,000
2011$857$824
2012$1,245$1,172
2013$1,969$1,814
2014$2,707$2,459
2015$3,227$2,932
2016$3,798$3,401
2017$4,250$3,722
2018$6,428$5,462
2019$7,032$5,837
2020$10,431$8,522
2021$10,193$7,928
2022$12,003$8,551
2023$12,310$8,448
2024$14,728$9,818
2025$18,562$12,132
2026$17,602$11,505

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.