U.S. vs International stocks

The S&P 500 (The list of the biggest 500 companies in the U.S.) vs the international MSCI EAFE index (766 companies from 21 developed countries).

You can see the U.S. S&P 500 isn’t always the winner. Sometimes, ‘those foreigners’ do pretty well. You know, Samsung, Toyota, Heineken. Those guys.

That’s why we include International Stocks in the Three-Fund Portfolio.

A table comparing the annual returns of US and international equities from 2000 to 2019. The table shows rankings, index names, and percentage returns for each year, with US S&P 500 highlighted in orange and international MSCI EAFE in gray.