Dow Jones (DIA) price, 1998 to 2026

Dow Jones (DIA) closed at $525.78 as of July 2026, up 0.6 percent from the prior period. The window runs from January 1998 and spans a low of $70.76 (February 2009) and a high of $525.78 (July 2026).

How it is measured

The series is the monthly closing price of DIA, the exchange-traded fund tracking the 30-stock Dow Jones Industrial Average, from Twelve Data's market feed. Because the fund holds the index's stocks, its price tracks the index almost exactly at a fraction of the index's numerical level, and it trades all day like any share. A price series is not total return: dividends are paid out along the way, so long-run investor returns exceed what the price line alone shows.

What the curve shows

Price charts reward reading structure rather than points: the drawdowns mark the crises, the flat years mark the doubt, and the slope between them is the compounding. Over this window the price rose roughly 7-fold. Held against an index, a single fund's line shows how much of its story is the market's and how much is its own.