What if you invested in Coinbase in 2021?
COIN · Financial · Data through 2026-06-01
If you invested $1,000 in Coinbase in 2021
The same $1,000 in the S&P 500 would be worth $2,196(+119.6%)
The S&P 500 returned $2,196 on the same $1,000. S&P 500 outperformed by $1,577.
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Year-by-Year Returns
$1,000 invested in Coinbase starting January 2021
| Year | Price | Value | Annual |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | $297.64 | $1,000 | - |
| 2022 | $190.15 | $639 | -36.1% |
| 2023 | $58.48 | $196 | -69.2% |
| 2024 | $128.20 | $431 | +119.2% |
| 2025 | $291.33 | $979 | +127.2% |
| 2026 | $194.74 | $654 | -33.2% |
What this return means
Coinbase (COIN) is one of the losers in this dataset. That stake is worth $620 as of 2026-06-01, a -38.0% move that left you with less than you started with after 5.5 years.
That averages out to -8.3% a year, meaning the position shrank in compound terms across the 5.5-year window. The same $1,000 in an S&P 500 index fund would be about $2,196 over the identical span, so the index came out ahead by roughly $1,577. The index compounded at about 15.4% a year, a reminder that a single stock can lag a basket of them.
The path was not smooth. The best single year was 2025 at +127.2%, and the worst was 2023 at -69.2%. At its lowest point the position was down about 80% from an earlier high. These figures use split-adjusted closing prices and exclude dividends, taxes, trading fees, and inflation, so a real after-tax result would differ.
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