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The S&P 500 ends 2019 at about 3,100, above Lee's prior 2,925 year-end target (an up-25% year).

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Hitmarkets

Our year-end [S&P 500] target at 2,925 is too low and likely 3,100 looks more appropriate

The S&P 500 ends 2019 at about 3,100, above Lee's prior 2,925 year-end target (an up-25% year).

Made on
2019-04-26
Outcome
Hit
Importance
3 / 5
Effect on score
+2.76

What counted as right

Status
resolved
Settled on
2019-12-31

The S&P 500 index closes 2019 (final close of the year) at or above 3,100.

Criterion ('closes 2019 at or above 3,100') met unambiguously: final 2019 close 3,230.78. The 3,230.78 figure is consistent across three independent sources (Yahoo daily series, CNBC market wrap, and the widely reported 28.88% annual price return). Note for the quantify stage: the criterion as written is a simple at-or-above-3,100 threshold, which is a weaker bar than the claim's headline 'about 3,100' point estimate — the actual close overshot the target by 4.2%. No conflicting evidence found.

Sources

  • Tom Lee: Our 2019 S&P 500 target is too low

    Yahoo Finance ·

    Source

  • Tom Lee is more bullish on stocks for 2019

    Yahoo Finance (YouTube) ·

    Source

  • Calling New Bull Market, Fundstrat's Lee Lifts S&P 500 Target

    Bloomberg ·

    Source

  • Tom Lee predicts S&P 500 will gain additional 7% by end of the year

    CNBC ·

    Source

  • Tom Lee: chop not top (Worldwide Exchange)

    CNBC ·

    Source

  • Tom Lee: chop not top

    CNBC Television (YouTube) ·

    Source

  • still tracking and suggest 3,100 by year end

    X (Twitter) — @fundstrat (Tom Lee) ·

    SourceArchive

  • Tom Lee (Fundstrat): S&P 500 Year-End Target Track Record

    AnaChart ·

    Source

Evidence of what happened

  • Yahoo Finance historical daily data for the S&P 500 (^GSPC): the final close of 2019, on 2019-12-31, was 3,230.78 — 130.78 points (4.2%) above the 3,100 criterion threshold. Surrounding closes: 2019-12-26 3,239.91; 2019-12-27 3,240.02 (the 2019 closing high); 2019-12-30 3,221.29.

    Evidence

  • CNBC market wrap for the final trading day of 2019: 'Stocks post best annual gain in 6 years with the S&P 500 surging more than 28%' — reports the S&P 500 closing 2019 at 3,230.78, up 28.9% on the year, its biggest one-year gain since 2013.

    EvidenceArchive

  • Wikipedia 'Closing milestones of the S&P 500' records the index first closing above 3,200 on 2019-12-19 at 3,205.37, establishing the index was already sustainably above the 3,100 threshold well before year end.

    EvidenceArchive

Corrections

No public corrections.

Effect on the score

+2.76
How sure they sounded
80%
Outcome
Hit
Importance
3 / 5

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Where this came from

The S&P 500 ends 2019 at about 3,100, above Lee's prior 2,9…
Methodology version
v1.0.0
Last computed
August 5, 2026
Made on
2019-04-26

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