O'Reilly Automotive ORLY

equity

Price History

1993-04 · DCA start$0.156

Time underwater

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

1993-042026-08 · -14.6%

Worst drawdown: −48%, peaking Jun 1999 and bottoming Jan 2000 — 18 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Start month

Monthly amount (USD)

Invested: $40,100
Value today: $3,497,292
Return: +8621.4%
Months invested: 401

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $63,906 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +5372.6%.

Lump sum instead — $40,100 all at once in Apr 1993: $23,623,713 (+58812.0%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Sep 2025): $1,167 on $1,200 invested (-2.7%).

⚠ 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 1993-04: +8621.4%

About O'Reilly Automotive

O'Reilly Automotive, Inc., doing business as O'Reilly Auto Parts, is an American automotive part retailer that provides automotive parts, tools, supplies, equipment, and accessories to professional service providers and do-it-yourself customers. Founded in 1957 by the O'Reilly family, O'Reilly Auto Parts operates more than 6,400 stores in 48 states, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Canada. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under consumer discretionary and automotive retail, with a market cap of about $74.5B.

It rates Low Risk at 1.3/5, meaning the rated factors look benign — steady pricing, deep liquidity, and no obvious structural red flags.

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

Low Risk(1.3/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility2.0/5 · weight 20%

Annualised volatility (3yr)2/522.3
Max drawdown from ATH2/547.9
Beta vs S&P 5002/50.68

Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%

Avg daily $ volume1/5716.1m
Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched

Leverage / Financial1.0/5 · weight 20%

Debt / equitynot yet researched
Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)1/514.7

Earnings Quality1.0/5 · weight 15%

3yr EPS volatility1/52.6

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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