Adobe Inc. ADBE

equity

Price History

1986-08 · DCA start$0.207

Time underwater

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

1986-082026-08 · -61.4%

Worst drawdown: −75%, peaking Sep 2000 and bottoming Sep 2002 — 64 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Start month

Monthly amount (USD)

Invested: $48,100
Value today: $2,314,327
Return: +4711.5%
Months invested: 481

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $85,067 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +2620.6%.

Lump sum instead — $48,100 all at once in Aug 1986: $60,115,997 (+124881.3%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Nov 2021): $3,847 on $5,800 invested (-33.7%).

⚠ 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 1986-08: +4711.5%

About Adobe Inc.

Adobe Inc., formerly Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American multinational computer software company based in San Jose, California. It offers a wide range of programs from web design tools, photo manipulation, and vector creation to video and audio editing, mobile app development, print layout and animation software. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under information technology and application software, with a market cap of about $102.9B.

It rates Medium-High Risk at 2.3/5, meaning real but ordinary risk — the kind most mainstream assets carry, with some factors scoring poorly.

What pushes the score up: market / volatility (3.7/5) and earnings quality (3.0/5).

Scoring well: sector / regulatory 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

Medium-High Risk(2.3/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility3.7/5 · weight 20%

Annualised volatility (3yr)3/534.3
Max drawdown from ATH4/575.4
Beta vs S&P 5004/51.4

Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%

Avg daily $ volume1/51.5bn
Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched

Leverage / Financial2.0/5 · weight 20%

Debt / equity2/50.58
Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched

Earnings Quality3.0/5 · weight 15%

3yr EPS volatility3/521.6

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 / Regulatory1.0/5 · weight 10%

Sector regulatory exposure1/5low

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