Equinix EQIX
equity
Price History
Time underwater
How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.
Worst drawdown: −99%, peaking Aug 2000 and bottoming Mar 2003 — 228 months below the prior high before recovering.
DCA Backtest
- Invested
- $31,300
- Value today
- $542,348
- Return
- +1632.7%
- Months invested
- 313
Scenarios
Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $45,280 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +1097.8%.
Lump sum instead — $31,300 all at once in Aug 2000: $64,604 (+106.4%) — DCA came out ahead.
Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Apr 2026): $506.31 on $500 invested (+1.3%).
⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.
If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.
Every start month at once
Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€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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About Equinix
Equinix Inc., is an American multinational internet and data center company headquartered in Redwood City, California. It specialized in internet connectivity and data center colocation centers, commonly known as carrier hotels, until the company converted to a real estate investment trust (REIT) in January 2015. It is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol EQIX. As of 2025, the company operates 260 data centers in 33 countries, across five continents and employed more than 13,000 people worldwide. (Wikipedia)
It's a listed company categorised under real estate and data center reits, with a market cap of about $105.5B.
It rates High Risk at 2.8/5, 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
- Annualised volatility (3yr)2/523.8
- Max drawdown from ATH5/599.4
- Beta vs S&P 5004/51.8
- Avg daily $ volume1/5611.8m
- Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
- Debt / equity2/51.5
- Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched
- 3yr EPS volatility5/556.2
- Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
- Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched
- Board independence %not yet researched
- Share structurenot yet researched
- Litigation / audit historynot yet researched
- Sector regulatory exposure2/5moderate
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