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Xylem Inc. XYL

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Price History

$23.9$66.22$108.53$150.85
2011-10 · DCA start$26.74

Time underwater

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

-42.6%-28.4%-14.2%0.0%
2011-102026-08 · -19.2%

Worst drawdown: −43%, peaking Aug 2021 and bottoming Jun 2022 — 33 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$17,900
Value today
$39,294
Return
+119.5%
Months invested
179

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $22,723 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +72.9%.

Lump sum instead — $17,900 all at once in Oct 2011: $81,621 (+356.0%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Oct 2025): $1,064 on $1,100 invested (-3.3%).

⚠ 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 2011-10: +119.5%

About Xylem Inc.

Xylem Inc. is a large American water technology provider, in public utility, industrial, commercial, agricultural and residential settings. The company does business in more than 150 countries. Launched in 2011 as the spinoff of the water-related businesses of ITT Corporation, Xylem is headquartered in Washington, DC, with 2024 revenues of $8.6 billion and 23,000 employees worldwide. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under industrials and industrial machinery & supplies & components, with a market cap of about $28.5B.

It rates Medium-Low Risk at 1.9/5, meaning the rated factors are mostly sound, with one or two areas worth watching.

Scoring well: liquidity 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(1.9/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility2.3/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)2/522.3
  • Max drawdown from ATH2/542.6
  • Beta vs S&P 5003/51.0
Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume1/5231.0m
  • Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
Leverage / Financial2.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Debt / equity2/50.33
  • Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched
Earnings Quality2.0/5 · weight 15%
  • 3yr EPS volatility2/516.6
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 / Regulatory2.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Sector regulatory exposure2/5moderate

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