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Charles Schwab Corporation SCHW

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Price History

$0.132$36.53$72.94$109.34
1987-09 · DCA start$0.348

Time underwater

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

-81.2%-54.1%-27.1%0.0%
1987-092026-08 · 0.0%

Worst drawdown: −81%, peaking Aug 2000 and bottoming Mar 2003 — 195 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$46,800
Value today
$2,907,749
Return
+6113.1%
Months invested
468

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $81,197 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +3481.1%.

Lump sum instead — $46,800 all at once in Sep 1987: $14,686,536 (+31281.5%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Jul 2026): $203.9 on $200 invested (+1.9%).

⚠ 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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Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 1987-09: +6113.1%

About Charles Schwab Corporation

The Charles Schwab Corporation is an American multinational financial services company. It offers banking, commercial banking, investing, and related services including consulting, and wealth management advisory services to both retail and institutional clients. One of the largest banks in the United States by assets, as of December 31, 2024, it had $10.10 trillion in client assets, 36.5 million active brokerage accounts, 5.4 million workplace retirement plan participant accounts, and 2.0 million banking accounts. It also offers a donor advised fund for clients seeking to donate securities. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under financials and investment banking & brokerage, with a market cap of about $189.1B.

It rates Medium-High Risk at 2.4/5, meaning real but ordinary risk — the kind most mainstream assets carry, with some factors scoring poorly.

What pushes the score up: sector / regulatory (4.0/5) and market / volatility (3.7/5).

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

Medium-High Risk(2.4/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility3.7/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)3/525.2
  • Max drawdown from ATH4/581.2
  • Beta vs S&P 5004/51.5
Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume1/51.0bn
  • Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
Leverage / Financial1.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Debt / equity1/50.45
  • Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched
Earnings Quality3.0/5 · weight 15%
  • 3yr EPS volatility3/526.7
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 / Regulatory4.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Sector regulatory exposure4/5high

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