Ed Yardeni: S&P 500 to 10,000 by Dec 31, 2029
+35% from 7,399

President and Chief Investment Strategist, Yardeni Research
President and Chief Investment Strategist, Yardeni Research
Ed Yardeni is president and chief investment strategist of Yardeni Research, an independent investment research firm he founded in 2007. Before that he was chief investment strategist at Prudential Equity Group, Deutsche Bank and C.J. Lawrence, and earlier chief economist at EF Hutton and Prudential Securities. He holds a PhD in economics from Yale University and wrote the book Predicting the Markets (2018).
Gives targets for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average and for the price of gold, in his firm's research and in television interviews that news outlets report. The deadlines are mostly the end of the current or the next calendar year, with longer targets for the end of the decade; most of the targets are for prices to rise, and he revises them during the year.
As of September 29, 2026, we track 9 price predictions Ed Yardeni made between 2020 and 2026. Six came true, one did not and two are open. They were about S&P 500 and Gold. All had deadlines at the end of a calendar year.
The open, came-true and missed call with the largest move from the price when said. A selection, not a rating.
Boldest open call
+35% from 7,399
Boldest call that came true
+29% from $3,886
Boldest call that didn't come true
+4% from 6,729
| Asset | Said | Price then → Target | Deadline | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Price when said: $3,886 Target: $5,000 (+29%) | Hit | ||
| S&P 500 | Price when said: 6,729 Target: 7,000 (+4%) | Missed | ||
| S&P 500 | Price when said: 5,844 Target: 6,500 (+11%) | Hit | ||
| S&P 500 | Price when said: 5,577 Target: 5,800 (+4%) | Hit | ||
| S&P 500 | Price when said: 3,971 Target: 4,600 (+16%) | Hit | ||
| S&P 500 | Price when said: 3,334 Target: 3,800 (+14%) | Hit | ||
| S&P 500 | Price when said: 3,334 Target: 3,500 (+5%) | Hit | ||