Compound Annual Growth Rate Calculator

seemingli
27 Sep 2015

Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) aka Annualised Returns

Do you ever wonder how much are the returns on your investments in the voilatile financial market?

Fret no more.

With the Compound Annual Growth Rate calculator at https://seemingli.shinyapps.io/Compound_Annual_Growth_Rate_Calculator, you can know the CAGR or annualised returns on your investments instantaneously.

What is Compound Annual Growth Rate?

  • the average annual growth rate over a period of time longer than 1 year
  • particularly useful for measuring returns on investment which could be highly voilatile from year to year
  • Mathematical Formula :

\[ (\frac{Ending Value}{Beginning Value}) ^{1/number of years} - 1 \]

Example

If the value of your investments are as voilatile like this example, you may like to use CAGR to see how the investment fared over different periods like CAGR over 3 years, 5 years and 10 years.

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Easy-to-use App

Just key in the Beginning Value & Ending Value of your investment and the number of years between the beginning and ending years & voila, you'll have the CAGR instantaneously for comparison!

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