NetApp NTAP

equity

Price History

1995-11 · DCA start$1.89

Time underwater

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

1995-112026-08 · 0.0%

Worst drawdown: −95%, peaking Sep 2000 and bottoming Sep 2001 — 285 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Start month

Monthly amount (USD)

Invested: $37,000
Value today: $487,364
Return: +1217.2%
Months invested: 370

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $56,957 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +755.7%.

Lump sum instead — $37,000 all at once in Nov 1995: $3,954,169 (+10586.9%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Jul 2026): $213.19 on $200 invested (+6.6%).

⚠ 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 1995-11: +1217.2%

About NetApp

NetApp, Inc. is an American data infrastructure company that provides unified data storage, integrated data services, and cloud operations (CloudOps) solutions to enterprise customers. The company is based in San Jose, California. It was ranked in the Fortune 500 from 2012 to 2021. Founded in 1992 with an initial public offering in 1995, NetApp offers cloud data services for management of applications and data both online and physically. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under information technology and technology hardware, storage & peripherals, with a market cap of about $39.6B.

It rates Medium-Low Risk at 2.2/5, meaning the rated factors are mostly sound, with one or two areas worth watching.

What pushes the score up: market / volatility (4.3/5) and leverage / financial (2.5/5).

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-Low Risk(2.2/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility4.3/5 · weight 20%

Annualised volatility (3yr)4/540.0
Max drawdown from ATH5/594.7
Beta vs S&P 5004/51.8

Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%

Avg daily $ volume1/5541.5m
Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched

Leverage / Financial2.5/5 · weight 20%

Debt / equity4/51.8
Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)1/515.4

Earnings Quality1.0/5 · weight 15%

3yr EPS volatility1/57.4

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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