Copart CPRT

equity

Price History

1994-03 · DCA start$0.145

Time underwater

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

1994-032026-08 · -54.3%

Worst drawdown: −68%, peaking Dec 2001 and bottoming Mar 2003 — 29 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Start month

Monthly amount (USD)

Invested: $39,000
Value today: $1,333,612
Return: +3319.5%
Months invested: 390

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $61,385 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +2072.5%.

Lump sum instead — $39,000 all at once in Mar 1994: $7,822,612 (+19958.0%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Nov 2024): $1,530 on $2,200 invested (-30.4%).

⚠ 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 1994-03: +3319.5%

About Copart

Copart, Inc. is a multinational provider of online vehicle auction and remarketing services to automotive resellers such as insurance, rental car, fleet, and finance companies in 11 countries: the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, Ireland, Brazil, Spain, UAE, Bahrain, Oman, and Finland. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Copart has more than 200 physical locations, where it houses more than 10,000 acres of vehicle inventory. Copart sells used, wholesale and repairable vehicles in weekly and bi-weekly online auctions to buyers ranging from consumers to automotive businesses. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under industrials and diversified support services, with a market cap of about $26.8B.

It rates Medium-Low Risk at 1.8/5, meaning the rated factors are mostly sound, with one or two areas worth watching.

What pushes the score up: market / volatility (3.0/5).

Scoring well: earnings quality at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: leverage / financial, 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(1.8/5)60% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility3.0/5 · weight 20%

Annualised volatility (3yr)3/527.1
Max drawdown from ATH3/568.3
Beta vs S&P 5003/50.98

Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%

Avg daily $ volume1/5349.2m
Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched

Leverage / Financialunrated · weight 20%

Debt / equitynot yet researched
Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched

Earnings Quality1.0/5 · weight 15%

3yr EPS volatility1/53.0

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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