AMD DCA Calculator
What a fixed monthly buy of AMD actually did — computed from real daily closes (Mar 1980 → Jul 2026), not projections. Run your own amount and schedule below.
What $100 a month actually built
The last 10 years of a $100 monthly plan in AMD, month by month: the flat line is cash paid in ($12,100 total), the accent line is what the position was worth along the way — ending at $209,558. Every point is computed from that day's real close.
Timing luck, quantified
Same plan, different start month. Each bar below is one possible 5-year monthly DCA window in AMD's history, sorted from worst to best — the honest spread between unlucky and lucky timing, and the case for starting on a schedule instead of waiting:
497 possible 5-year start months — 64% ended positive.
Why dollar-cost average into AMD?
AMD has the widest boom-bust arc of any stock on this site: four decades of data, multiple −80%+ collapses, a brush with irrelevance around $2 in 2015 — and then a roughly 100x run as the turnaround landed. The timing-luck strip above is the point: start months a couple of years apart produced outcomes that barely belong to the same company.
This page is also our clearest survivorship warning. AMD is the semiconductor underdog that lived; the industry's history is a graveyard of ones that didn't, and a DCA schedule into any of those would have averaged down to zero. Position size, not schedule design, is what makes a stock like this survivable in a portfolio.
FAQ
History, not opinion: $100 every month into AMD for the last 10 years (121 buys, $12,100 invested) would be worth $209,558 today — +1632% before fees and taxes. Past performance doesn't predict the future, but that's what the plan actually produced.
The worst 5-year monthly-DCA start in AMD's history began Dec 2003 and finished at -84%. The best (Sep 2015) finished at +1039%. DCA doesn't delete timing luck — it narrows it and removes the decision.
A lump sum bets everything on one entry price. Monthly DCA spreads your cost across AMD's ups and downs — you buy more units when it's cheap, fewer when it's expensive. Compare both directly in our lump sum vs DCA calculator.
Real AMD daily closing prices from Mar 1980 to Jul 2026 (46.3 years), refreshed weekly and validated for gaps, zeros and staleness — see the data & methodology page. Fees, spreads and taxes are not modelled.
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