Fidelity National Information Services FIS

equity

Price History

2001-06 · DCA start$28

Time underwater

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

2001-062026-08 · -72.6%

Worst drawdown: −75%, peaking Apr 2021 and bottoming Jun 2026 — still unrecovered after 64 months.

DCA Backtest

Start month

Monthly amount (USD)

Invested: $30,300
Value today: $28,588
Return: -5.7%
Months invested: 303

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $43,378 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is -34.1%.

Lump sum instead — $30,300 all at once in Jun 2001: $45,363 (+49.7%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Apr 2021): $3,820 on $6,500 invested (-41.2%).

⚠ 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 2001-06: -5.7%

About Fidelity National Information Services

Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (FIS) is an American financial technology company. Annually, FIS facilitates the movement of roughly US$9 trillion through the processing of approximately 75 billion transactions in service to more than 20,000 clients around the globe. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under financials and transaction & payment processing services, with a market cap of about $21.6B.

It rates Medium-High Risk at 2.6/5, meaning real but ordinary risk — the kind most mainstream assets carry, with some factors scoring poorly.

What pushes the score up: earnings quality (5.0/5) and sector / regulatory (4.0/5).

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

Medium-High Risk(2.6/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility3.0/5 · weight 20%

Annualised volatility (3yr)3/528.4
Max drawdown from ATH4/574.6
Beta vs S&P 5002/50.87

Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%

Avg daily $ volume1/5281.4m
Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched

Leverage / Financial1.0/5 · weight 20%

Debt / equity1/51.2
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 / Regulatory4.0/5 · weight 10%

Sector regulatory exposure4/5high

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