Glencore GLEN

equity

Price History

2011-04 · DCA start£5.31

Time underwater

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

2011-042026-08 · -4.3%

Worst drawdown: −83%, peaking Apr 2011 and bottoming Jan 2016 — 127 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Start month

Monthly amount (GBP)

Invested: £17,000
Value today: £31,920
Return: +87.8%
Months invested: 170

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be £22,107 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +44.4%.

Lump sum instead — £17,000 all at once in Apr 2011: £17,542 (+3.2%) — DCA came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Jul 2026): £195.66 on £200 invested (-2.2%).

⚠ 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 2011-04: +87.8%

About Glencore

Glencore plc is an Anglo-Swiss multinational commodity trading and mining company with headquarters in Baar, Switzerland. Glencore's oil and gas headquarters are in London, England, as well as its primary listing being on the London Stock Exchange, and it is one of the largest components of the FTSE 100 by market capitalization. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under materials.

It rates High Risk at 3.0/5, 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 leverage / financial (3.5/5).

Scoring well: liquidity at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: concentration. 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(3.0/5)90% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility3.0/5 · weight 20%

Annualised volatility (3yr)3/530.3
Max drawdown from ATH4/583.2
Beta vs S&P 5002/50.56

Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%

Avg daily $ volume1/5184.4m
Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched

Leverage / Financial3.5/5 · weight 20%

Debt / equity3/51.1
Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)4/51.1

Earnings Quality5.0/5 · weight 15%

3yr EPS volatility5/5100

Concentrationunrated · weight 10%

Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched

Governance3.0/5 · weight 10%

Board independence %not yet researched
Share structurenot yet researched
Litigation / audit history3/5material settled

Sector / Regulatory2.0/5 · weight 10%

Sector regulatory exposure2/5moderate

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