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Steris STE

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Price History

$2.31$90.3$178.29$266.28
1992-06 · DCA start$2.31

Time underwater

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

-73.0%-48.7%-24.3%0.0%
1992-062026-08 · -11.1%

Worst drawdown: −73%, peaking Feb 1999 and bottoming Jun 2000 — 113 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$41,100
Value today
$446,037
Return
+985.2%
Months invested
411

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $66,254 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +573.2%.

Lump sum instead — $41,100 all at once in Jun 1992: $4,205,086 (+10131.4%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Nov 2025): $1,009 on $1,000 invested (+0.9%).

⚠ 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 1992-06: +985.2%

About Steris

Steris plc is an American-Irish-based medical equipment company specializing in sterilization and surgical products for the US healthcare system. Steris is operationally headquartered in Mentor, Ohio, and has been legally registered in Dublin, Ireland, for tax purposes since 2018. Previously the company was registered in the United Kingdom from 2014 to 2018. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under health care and health care equipment, with a market cap of about $23.1B.

It rates Medium-Low Risk at 2.0/5, meaning the rated factors are mostly sound, with one or two areas worth watching.

What pushes the score up: earnings quality (3.0/5) and sector / regulatory (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

Medium-Low Risk(2.0/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility2.7/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)2/520.9
  • Max drawdown from ATH4/573.0
  • Beta vs S&P 5002/50.66
Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume1/5178.2m
  • Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
Leverage / Financial1.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Debt / equity1/50.26
  • Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)1/518.2
Earnings Quality3.0/5 · weight 15%
  • 3yr EPS volatility3/524.6
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 / Regulatory3.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Sector regulatory exposure3/5elevated

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