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EchoStar ECHO

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Price History

$10.47$50.04$89.62$129.19
2008-01 · DCA start$23.68

Time underwater

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

-78.8%-52.6%-26.3%0.0%
2008-012026-08 · -28.4%

Worst drawdown: −79%, peaking Jan 2018 and bottoming Nov 2023 — 91 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$22,400
Value today
$81,278
Return
+262.8%
Months invested
224

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $29,608 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +174.5%.

Lump sum instead — $22,400 all at once in Jan 2008: $87,503 (+290.6%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (May 2026): $372.73 on $400 invested (-6.8%).

⚠ 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 2008-01: +262.8%

About EchoStar

EchoStar Corporation is an American telecommunications company, specializing in satellite communication, wireless telecommunications, and internet services. Echostar also provides multichannel video programming and mobile services through its subsidiaries: Dish Network, Boost Mobile, Sling TV, EchoStar Mobile, and Hughes Network Systems. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under communication services and wireless telecommunication services.

It rates High Risk at 3.2/5, meaning several rated factors score badly, so this carries materially more risk than a typical holding.

What pushes the score up: earnings quality (5.0/5) and market / volatility (3.7/5).

Scoring well: liquidity 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(3.2/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility3.7/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)5/573.6
  • Max drawdown from ATH4/578.8
  • Beta vs S&P 5002/50.89
Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume1/5873.0m
  • Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
Leverage / Financial3.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Debt / equity3/51.1
  • Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched
Earnings Quality5.0/5 · weight 15%
  • 3yr EPS volatility5/5100
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 / Regulatory3.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Sector regulatory exposure3/5elevated

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