Adobe Inc. ADBE
equity
Price History
The shaded fan is where this price has historically travelled over the months after a close like today’s. It is not a forecast: it has no view on direction, only on distance.
Over 3 months from Sep 2026, roughly two-thirds of past moves landed between $207.54 and $298.55; nine in ten between $184.58 and $335.69.
Tested against this asset’s own history: across 467 past 3-month windows, the price actually landed inside the two-thirds band 67% of the time. The gap from 68% is the model’s error — real returns have fatter tails than the maths assumes, so the band gets breached more often than it claims.
Time underwater
How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.
Worst drawdown: −75%, peaking Sep 2000 and bottoming Sep 2002 — 64 months below the prior high before recovering.
DCA Backtest
- Invested
- $48,200
- Value today
- $2,226,494
- Return
- +4519.3%
- Months invested
- 482
Scenarios
Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $85,504 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +2504.0%.
Lump sum instead — $48,200 all at once in Aug 1986: $57,952,403 (+120133.2%) — lump sum came out ahead.
Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Nov 2021): $3,789 on $5,900 invested (-35.8%).
⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.
If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.
Every start month at once
Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€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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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 $96.9B.
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
- Annualised volatility (3yr)3/536.4
- Max drawdown from ATH4/575.4
- Beta vs S&P 5004/51.4
- Avg daily $ volume1/51.5bn
- Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
- Debt / equity2/50.54
- Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched
- 3yr EPS volatility3/521.6
- Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
- Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched
- Board independence %not yet researched
- Share structurenot yet researched
- Litigation / audit historynot yet researched
- Sector regulatory exposure1/5low
Linked Assets
Same sector, or return-correlated — worth knowing what else might move if this one does.
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