Keysight Technologies KEYS

equity

Price History

2014-10 · DCA start$31.5

Time underwater

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

2014-102026-08 · 0.0%

Worst drawdown: −41%, peaking Dec 2021 and bottoming Oct 2023 — 49 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Start month

Monthly amount (USD)

Invested: $14,300
Value today: $72,301
Return: +405.6%
Months invested: 143

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $17,564 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +311.7%.

Lump sum instead — $14,300 all at once in Oct 2014: $160,932 (+1025.4%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Jun 2026): $312.37 on $300 invested (+4.1%).

⚠ 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 2014-10: +405.6%

About Keysight Technologies

Keysight Technologies, Inc. is a global company headquartered in Santa Rosa, California, that manufactures hardware and software for engineering workflows across design, test, and emulation. It serves industries including communications (5G/6G/NTN), aerospace and defense, AI/data center networking, automotive, semiconductors, digital healthcare, quantum computing, and energy. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under information technology and electronic equipment & instruments, with a market cap of about $60.6B.

It rates Medium-High Risk at 2.4/5, 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 market / volatility (2.7/5).

Scoring well: sector / regulatory 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(2.4/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility2.7/5 · weight 20%

Annualised volatility (3yr)3/532.9
Max drawdown from ATH2/540.9
Beta vs S&P 5003/51.1

Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%

Avg daily $ volume1/5530.3m
Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched

Leverage / Financial2.0/5 · weight 20%

Debt / equity2/50.51
Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)2/59.1

Earnings Quality5.0/5 · weight 15%

3yr EPS volatility5/556.9

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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