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Price History

$18.62$97.67$176.73$255.78
2013-06 · DCA start$18.62

Time underwater

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

-52.7%-35.1%-17.6%0.0%
2013-062026-08 · -46.6%

Worst drawdown: −53%, peaking Mar 2024 and bottoming Mar 2026 — still unrecovered after 29 months.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$15,900
Value today
$30,858
Return
+94.1%
Months invested
159

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $19,827 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +55.6%.

Lump sum instead — $15,900 all at once in Jun 2013: $116,705 (+634.0%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Mar 2024): $2,471 on $3,000 invested (-17.6%).

⚠ 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 2013-06: +94.1%

About CDW Corporation

CDW Corporation is an American multi-brand provider of information technology services, serving business, government, education, and healthcare sectors across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Headquartered in Vernon Hills, Illinois, CDW is a Fortune 500 and generated $21 billion in annual net sales in 2023. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under information technology and technology distributors, with a market cap of about $17.1B.

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: leverage / financial (4.0/5) and market / volatility (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 / Volatility3.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)3/525.4
  • Max drawdown from ATH3/552.7
  • Beta vs S&P 5003/51.00
Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume1/5298.5m
  • Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
Leverage / Financial4.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Debt / equity4/52.4
  • Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched
Earnings Quality1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • 3yr EPS volatility1/52.1
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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