BMW BMW

equity

Price History

1996-10 · DCA start€19.69

Time underwater

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

1996-102026-08 · -49.4%

Worst drawdown: −63%, peaking Apr 2007 and bottoming Dec 2008 — 40 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Start month

Monthly amount (EUR)

Invested: €35,900
Value today: €45,433
Return: +26.6%
Months invested: 359

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be €49,817 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is -8.8%.

Lump sum instead — €35,900 all at once in Oct 1996: €107,489 (+199.4%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Feb 2015): €10,380 on €13,900 invested (-25.3%).

⚠ 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 1996-10: +26.6%

About BMW

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, trading as BMW Group, is a German multinational conglomerate manufacturer of luxury vehicles and motorcycles headquartered in Munich, Germany. The moniker "BMW " first came into use when the German firm Rapp Motorenwerke changed its name to Bayerische Motoren Werke GmbH in 1917. Thereafter, in 1922, the name and assets of BMW GmbH were transferred to the aircraft manufacturer Bayerische Flugzeugwerke AG, thereby giving rise to the company known today as BMW AG. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under consumer discretionary.

It rates Medium-Low Risk at 2.1/5, meaning the rated factors are mostly sound, with one or two areas worth watching.

What pushes the score up: 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-Low Risk(2.1/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility2.3/5 · weight 20%

Annualised volatility (3yr)3/527.8
Max drawdown from ATH3/562.6
Beta vs S&P 5001/5-0.02

Liquidity2.0/5 · weight 15%

Avg daily $ volume2/580.4m
Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched

Leverage / Financial2.0/5 · weight 20%

Debt / equity3/50.92
Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)1/519.2

Earnings Quality3.0/5 · weight 15%

3yr EPS volatility3/521.4

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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