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Anglo American AAL

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Price History

£2.71£15.33£27.96£40.58
1999-04 · DCA start£7.71

Time underwater

How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.

-92.1%-61.4%-30.7%0.0%
1999-042026-08 · -5.0%

Worst drawdown: −92%, peaking May 2008 and bottoming Jan 2016 — 151 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
£30,200
Value today
£77,945
Return
+158.1%
Months invested
302

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be £46,044 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +69.3%.

Lump sum instead — £30,200 all at once in Apr 1999: £150,995 (+400.0%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Jul 2026): £194.99 on £200 invested (-2.5%).

⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.

If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.

Every start month at once

Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.

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Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 1999-04: +158.1%

About Anglo American

Anglo American plc is a British multinational mining company with headquarters in London, England. It is the world's largest producer of platinum, representing approximately 40 percent of global output, as well as being a major producer of diamonds, copper, nickel, iron ore, polyhalite and steelmaking coal. The company has operations in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under materials.

It rates High Risk at 3.1/5, meaning several rated factors score badly, so this carries materially more risk than a typical holding.

What pushes the score up: earnings quality (5.0/5) and leverage / financial (3.5/5).

Scoring well: liquidity at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: concentration, governance. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.

Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.

Risk Profile

High Risk(3.1/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility3.3/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)3/533.0
  • Max drawdown from ATH5/592.1
  • Beta vs S&P 5002/50.66
Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume1/5143.9m
  • Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
Leverage / Financial3.5/5 · weight 20%
  • Debt / equity3/50.86
  • Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)4/52.0
Earnings Quality5.0/5 · weight 15%
  • 3yr EPS volatility5/5100
Concentrationunrated · weight 10%
  • Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
  • Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched
Governanceunrated · weight 10%
  • Board independence %not yet researched
  • Share structurenot yet researched
  • Litigation / audit historynot yet researched
Sector / Regulatory2.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Sector regulatory exposure2/5moderate

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