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General Motors GM

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Price History

$19.71$42.76$65.81$88.86
2010-11 · DCA start$34.2

Time underwater

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

-52.5%-35.0%-17.5%0.0%
2010-112026-08 · -2.4%

Worst drawdown: −52%, peaking May 2021 and bottoming Oct 2023 — 52 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$19,000
Value today
$45,942
Return
+141.8%
Months invested
190

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $24,361 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +88.6%.

Lump sum instead — $19,000 all at once in Nov 2010: $48,200 (+153.7%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Jul 2026): $197.64 on $200 invested (-1.2%).

⚠ 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 2010-11: +141.8%

About General Motors

General Motors Company (GM) is an American multinational automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States. The company is most known for owning and manufacturing four automobile brands: Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac, each a separate division of GM. By total sales, it has continuously been the largest automaker in the United States, and was the largest in the world for 77 years before losing the title to Toyota in 2008. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under consumer discretionary and automobile manufacturers, with a market cap of about $76.1B.

It rates Medium-High Risk at 2.3/5, meaning real but ordinary risk — the kind most mainstream assets carry, with some factors scoring poorly.

What pushes the score up: market / volatility (3.3/5) and earnings quality (3.0/5).

Scoring well: sector / regulatory 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-High Risk(2.3/5)60% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility3.3/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)3/526.7
  • Max drawdown from ATH3/552.5
  • Beta vs S&P 5004/51.4
Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume1/5655.8m
  • Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
Leverage / Financialunrated · weight 20%
  • Debt / equitynot yet researched
  • Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched
Earnings Quality3.0/5 · weight 15%
  • 3yr EPS volatility3/525.2
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 / Regulatory1.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Sector regulatory exposure1/5low

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