McKesson Corporation MCK
equity
Price History
The shaded fan is where this price has historically travelled over the months after a close like today’s. It is not a forecast: it has no view on direction, only on distance.
Over 3 months from Sep 2026, roughly two-thirds of past moves landed between $763.97 and $1,001; nine in ten between $700.13 and $1,093.
Tested against this asset’s own history: across 368 past 3-month windows, the price actually landed inside the two-thirds band 65% of the time. The gap from 68% is the model’s error — real returns have fatter tails than the maths assumes, so the band gets breached more often than it claims.
Time underwater
How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.
Worst drawdown: −82%, peaking Sep 1998 and bottoming May 2000 — 165 months below the prior high before recovering.
DCA Backtest
- Invested
- $38,300
- Value today
- $571,613
- Return
- +1392.5%
- Months invested
- 383
Scenarios
Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $59,924 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +853.9%.
Lump sum instead — $38,300 all at once in Nov 1994: $2,135,401 (+5475.5%) — lump sum came out ahead.
Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Feb 2026): $831.46 on $800 invested (+3.9%).
⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.
If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.
Every start month at once
Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€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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About McKesson Corporation
McKesson Corporation is an American publicly traded company that distributes pharmaceuticals and provides health information technology, medical supplies, and health management tools. The company delivers a third of all pharmaceutical products used or consumed in North America and employs over 80,000 employees. With $308.9 billion in 2024 revenue, it is the ninth-largest company by revenue in the United States and the nation's largest health care company. The company is headquartered in Irving, Texas. (Wikipedia)
It's a listed company categorised under health care and health care distributors, with a market cap of about $102.0B.
It rates Medium-Low Risk at 2.1/5, meaning the rated factors are mostly sound, with one or two areas worth watching.
What pushes the score up: market / volatility (3.0/5) and earnings quality (3.0/5).
Scoring well: leverage / financial 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
- Annualised volatility (3yr)3/527.1
- Max drawdown from ATH4/582.1
- Beta vs S&P 5002/50.59
- Avg daily $ volume1/5867.5m
- Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
- Debt / equitynot yet researched
- Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)1/525.1
- 3yr EPS volatility3/524.3
- Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
- Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched
- Board independence %not yet researched
- Share structurenot yet researched
- Litigation / audit historynot yet researched
- Sector regulatory exposure3/5elevated
Linked Assets
Same sector, or return-correlated — worth knowing what else might move if this one does.
- Cardinal Health CAH+52% (moderate)same category: health care, health care distributors
- Cencora COR+49% (moderate)same category: health care, health care distributors
- Henry Schein HSIC+21% (weak)same category: health care, health care distributors
- Insulet Corporation PODD+39% (weak)same category: health care
- Elevance Health ELV+34% (weak)same category: health care
- Cigna CI+33% (weak)same category: health care
- Steris STE+32% (weak)same category: health care
- Zimmer Biomet ZBH+30% (weak)same category: health care