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Builders FirstSource BLDR

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Price History

$0.984$70.17$139.36$208.55
2005-06 · DCA start$13.62

Time underwater

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

-95.3%-63.6%-31.8%0.0%
2005-062026-08 · -65.3%

Worst drawdown: −95%, peaking Jan 2006 and bottoming Nov 2008 — 143 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$25,500
Value today
$247,533
Return
+870.7%
Months invested
255

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $34,698 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +613.4%.

Lump sum instead — $25,500 all at once in Jun 2005: $135,521 (+431.5%) — DCA came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Mar 2024): $1,832 on $3,000 invested (-38.9%).

⚠ 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 2005-06: +870.7%

About Builders FirstSource

Builders FirstSource, Inc. is a publicly-traded, Fortune 500 company that manufactures and supplies building materials for the residential construction and repair and remodeling end markets. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is the largest supplier of building products, prefabricated components and value-added services in the US. Builders FirstSource employs about 28,000 people at approximately 585 locations in 43 states. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under industrials and building products, with a market cap of about $7.8B.

It rates High Risk at 2.9/5, meaning several rated factors score badly, so this carries materially more risk than a typical holding.

What pushes the score up: market / volatility (4.7/5) and leverage / financial (3.0/5).

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(2.9/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility4.7/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)4/548.0
  • Max drawdown from ATH5/595.3
  • Beta vs S&P 5005/52.0
Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume1/5204.2m
  • Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
Leverage / Financial3.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Debt / equity3/51.1
  • Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched
Earnings Quality3.0/5 · weight 15%
  • 3yr EPS volatility3/523.3
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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