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Compass Group CPG

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Price History

$2.1$12.39$22.69$32.98
2000-01 · DCA start$8.98

Time underwater

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

-79.5%-53.0%-26.5%0.0%
2000-012026-08 · -0.5%

Worst drawdown: −79%, peaking May 2000 and bottoming Sep 2005 — 149 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$29,400
Value today
$146,364
Return
+397.8%
Months invested
294

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $42,852 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +241.6%.

Lump sum instead — $29,400 all at once in Jan 2000: $107,437 (+265.4%) — DCA came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Jul 2026): $199.45 on $200 invested (-0.3%).

⚠ 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 2000-01: +397.8%

About Compass Group

Compass Group plc is a British multinational contract foodservice company headquartered in Chertsey, England. It is the largest contract foodservice company in Europe, employing over 590,000 people as of September 2025. It serves meals in locations including offices and factories, schools, universities, hospitals, major sports and cultural venues, mining camps, prisons and offshore oil platforms. Compass Group is listed on the London Stock Exchange, as a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. As of July 2025, it has one of the highest market capitalisations on the London Stock Exchange. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under consumer discretionary.

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: earnings quality (3.0/5) and market / volatility (2.7/5).

Scoring well: sector / regulatory at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: 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)90% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility2.7/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)3/530.3
  • Max drawdown from ATH4/579.5
  • Beta vs S&P 5001/50.39
Liquidity2.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume2/567.0m
  • Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
Leverage / Financial2.5/5 · weight 20%
  • Debt / equity3/50.91
  • Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)2/57.8
Earnings Quality3.0/5 · weight 15%
  • 3yr EPS volatility3/525.1
Concentration2.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
  • Geographic revenue concentration2/5majority stable region
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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