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Jacobs Solutions J

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Price History

$0.291$52.13$103.97$155.81
1980-03 · DCA start$0.418

Time underwater

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

-76.0%-50.7%-25.3%0.0%
1980-032026-08 · -6.7%

Worst drawdown: −76%, peaking May 1981 and bottoming Sep 1985 — 93 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$55,800
Value today
$3,489,255
Return
+6153.1%
Months invested
558

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $111,301 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +3035.0%.

Lump sum instead — $55,800 all at once in Mar 1980: $19,419,278 (+34701.6%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Oct 2025): $1,195 on $1,100 invested (+8.6%).

⚠ 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 1980-03: +6153.1%

About Jacobs Solutions

Jacobs Solutions Inc. is an American international technical professional services firm based in Dallas. The company provides engineering, technical, professional, and construction services as well as scientific and specialty consulting for a broad range of clients globally, including companies, organizations, and government agencies. Jacobs has consistently ranked No. 1 on both Engineering News-Record (ENR)'s 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 Top 500 Design Firms and Trenchless Technology’s 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 Top 50 Trenchless Engineering Firms. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under industrials and construction & engineering, with a market cap of about $17.0B.

It rates High Risk at 2.9/5, 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 (3.0/5).

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

High Risk(2.9/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility3.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)2/518.8
  • Max drawdown from ATH4/576.0
  • Beta vs S&P 5003/50.98
Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume1/5161.2m
  • Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
Leverage / Financial3.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Debt / equity3/51.1
  • Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched
Earnings Quality5.0/5 · weight 15%
  • 3yr EPS volatility5/557.7
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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