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Leidos LDOS

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Price History

$27.14$81.79$136.45$191.1
2006-10 · DCA start$49.38

Time underwater

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

-47.2%-31.5%-15.7%0.0%
2006-102026-08 · -26.5%

Worst drawdown: −47%, peaking Jun 2008 and bottoming Oct 2012 — 88 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$23,900
Value today
$60,332
Return
+152.4%
Months invested
239

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $32,027 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +88.4%.

Lump sum instead — $23,900 all at once in Oct 2006: $67,940 (+184.3%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Nov 2025): $957.96 on $1,000 invested (-4.2%).

⚠ 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 2006-10: +152.4%

About Leidos

Leidos Holdings, Inc. is an American defense, aviation, information technology, and biomedical research company headquartered in Reston, Virginia, that provides scientific, engineering, systems integration, and technical services. Founded as Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Leidos merged with Lockheed Martin's IT sector, Information Systems & Global Solutions, in August 2016 to create the defense industry’s largest IT services provider. The Leidos-Lockheed Martin merger is one of the biggest transactions thus far in the consolidation of the defense sector. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under industrials and diversified support services, with a market cap of about $17.6B.

It rates Medium-High Risk at 2.7/5, 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 leverage / financial (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

Medium-High Risk(2.7/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility2.3/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)3/531.0
  • Max drawdown from ATH2/547.2
  • Beta vs S&P 5002/50.72
Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume1/5185.1m
  • 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 volatility5/5367
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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