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Intertek Group ITRK

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Price History

£3.44£23.4£43.37£63.34
2002-04 · DCA start£4.41

Time underwater

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

-42.4%-28.3%-14.1%0.0%
2002-042026-08 · -7.8%

Worst drawdown: −42%, peaking Aug 2020 and bottoming Mar 2026 — still unrecovered after 66 months.

DCA Backtest

Invested
£26,900
Value today
£106,687
Return
+296.6%
Months invested
269

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be £39,581 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +169.5%.

Lump sum instead — £26,900 all at once in Apr 2002: £356,448 (+1225.1%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Aug 2020): £8,226 on £6,700 invested (+22.8%).

⚠ 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 2002-04: +296.6%

About Intertek Group

Intertek Group plc is a British multinational assurance, inspection, product testing and certification company headquartered in London, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under industrials.

It rates Medium-Low Risk at 1.9/5, meaning the rated factors are mostly sound, with one or two areas worth watching.

What pushes the score up: leverage / financial (2.5/5).

Scoring well: earnings quality 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-Low Risk(1.9/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility2.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)3/531.3
  • Max drawdown from ATH2/542.4
  • Beta vs S&P 5001/50.33
Liquidity2.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume2/584.9m
  • Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
Leverage / Financial2.5/5 · weight 20%
  • Debt / equity4/51.5
  • Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)1/511.1
Earnings Quality1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • 3yr EPS volatility1/58.0
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 / Regulatory2.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Sector regulatory exposure2/5moderate

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