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Price History

$35.39$149.51$263.64$377.76
2021-04 · DCA start$297.64

Time underwater

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

-88.9%-59.3%-29.6%0.0%
2021-042026-08 · -60.5%

Worst drawdown: −89%, peaking Oct 2021 and bottoming Dec 2022 — 44 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$6,500
Value today
$7,680
Return
+18.1%
Months invested
65

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $7,089 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +8.3%.

Lump sum instead — $6,500 all at once in Apr 2021: $3,255 (-49.9%) — DCA came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Jul 2025): $1,005 on $1,400 invested (-28.2%).

⚠ 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 2021-04: +18.1%

About Coinbase

Coinbase Global, Inc. is an American cryptocurrency exchange. It was founded in 2012 by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam. Coinbase has over 100 million users, and is the largest U.S. based cryptocurrency exchange as well as the world's biggest bitcoin custodian, as of 2024. The company operates in more than 100 countries and holds nearly US$516 billion in assets, including nearly 12 percent of all bitcoin in existence and 11 percent of all staked Ether. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under financials and financial exchanges & data.

It rates High Risk at 3.1/5, meaning several rated factors score badly, so this carries materially more risk than a typical holding.

What pushes the score up: market / volatility (5.0/5) and earnings quality (5.0/5).

Scoring well: leverage / financial 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(3.1/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility5.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)5/577.0
  • Max drawdown from ATH5/588.9
  • Beta vs S&P 5005/53.2
Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume1/51.4bn
  • Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
Leverage / Financial1.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Debt / equity1/50.45
  • Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched
Earnings Quality5.0/5 · weight 15%
  • 3yr EPS volatility5/51,779
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 / Regulatory4.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Sector regulatory exposure4/5high

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