Qualcomm QCOM

equity

Price History

1991-12 · DCA start$0.773

Time underwater

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

1991-122026-08 · -35.0%

Worst drawdown: −84%, peaking Dec 1999 and bottoming Jul 2002 — 240 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Start month

Monthly amount (USD)

Invested: $41,700
Value today: $994,882
Return: +2285.8%
Months invested: 417

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $67,691 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +1369.7%.

Lump sum instead — $41,700 all at once in Dec 1991: $8,791,939 (+20983.8%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (May 2026): $363.68 on $400 invested (-9.1%).

⚠ 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 1991-12: +2285.8%

About Qualcomm

Qualcomm Incorporated is an American multinational technology corporation headquartered in San Diego, California. The company develops and designs technologies for global communications and computing, including next-generation mobile networks, smart devices, and semiconductors — such as mobile processors and artificial intelligence chips. The company holds essential patents for global mobile communication standards including 5G, 4G, CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA and WCDMA. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under information technology and semiconductors, with a market cap of about $171.2B.

It rates Medium-High Risk at 2.5/5, 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 (4.0/5).

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(2.5/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility4.0/5 · weight 20%

Annualised volatility (3yr)4/544.4
Max drawdown from ATH4/584.4
Beta vs S&P 5004/51.4

Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%

Avg daily $ volume1/54.4bn
Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched

Leverage / Financial1.0/5 · weight 20%

Debt / equitynot yet researched
Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)1/518.6

Earnings Quality5.0/5 · weight 15%

3yr EPS volatility5/559.3

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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