Meta Platforms DCA Calculator
What a fixed monthly buy of Meta Platforms actually did — computed from real daily closes (May 2012 → 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 META, 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 $34,664. 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 META'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:
111 possible 5-year start months — 91% ended positive.
Why dollar-cost average into Meta Platforms?
Meta is the freshest live experiment in what a schedule does during a collapse. From the 2021 peak to late 2022 the stock lost about 76% while headlines declared the company finished — and a monthly plan mechanically bought the $90s. The rebound that followed turned exactly those buys into the position's cheapest lots. That single episode is most of why Meta's numbers above look the way they do.
It could have ended differently, and the chart is honest about the setup: even at IPO in 2012 the stock halved in its first months. A company this dependent on two levers — ad targeting rules and capex bets like AI and Reality Labs — can revisit −70% territory. The schedule's job is to make that survivable, not impossible.
FAQ
History, not opinion: $100 every month into META for the last 10 years (121 buys, $12,100 invested) would be worth $34,664 today — +186% 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 META's history began Nov 2017 and finished at -54%. The best (Aug 2012) finished at +206%. 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 META'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 META daily closing prices from May 2012 to Jul 2026 (14.2 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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