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Verisign VRSN

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Price History

$5.05$100.04$195.03$290.02
1998-01 · DCA start$6.38

Time underwater

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

-98.0%-65.3%-32.7%0.0%
1998-012026-08 · -2.4%

Worst drawdown: −98%, peaking Feb 2000 and bottoming Sep 2002 — 262 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$34,400
Value today
$279,895
Return
+713.6%
Months invested
344

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $51,490 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +443.6%.

Lump sum instead — $34,400 all at once in Jan 1998: $1,526,766 (+4338.3%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Jul 2026): $197.56 on $200 invested (-1.2%).

⚠ 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 1998-01: +713.6%

About Verisign

Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, .web and .name generic top-level domains and the .cc country-code top-level domains, and the back-end systems for the .jobs and .edu sponsored top-level domains. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under information technology and internet services & infrastructure, with a market cap of about $25.5B.

It rates Medium-Low Risk at 1.8/5, meaning the rated factors are mostly sound, with one or two areas worth watching.

What pushes the score up: market / volatility (3.7/5).

Scoring well: sector / regulatory at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: earnings quality, 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(1.8/5)65% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility3.7/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)2/523.8
  • Max drawdown from ATH5/598.0
  • Beta vs S&P 5004/51.5
Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume1/5231.3m
  • Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
Leverage / Financial1.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Debt / equitynot yet researched
  • Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)1/514.6
Earnings Qualityunrated · weight 15%
  • 3yr EPS volatilitynot yet researched
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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