buyupside.com Dollar-cost Averaging Calculator

Many buy-and-hold investors purchase shares of a stock at different times and prices as they accumulate shares to hold for many years. This form of recurring investment is called dollar-cost averaging because you average the costs of different purchases over time.

The buyupside.com dollar-cost averaging calculator computes the percent return for a series of recurring monthly investments for a specified stock and specified dollar investment amount. The calculator lets you backtest different monthly investment amounts for different investing periods for any stock. See Help for the calculator's detailed computational procedures.

Simply enter any quote symbol recognized by finance.yahoo.com and click on the Calculate Returns button. In a few seconds the percent returns for your stock and investment amount will be displayed on a new page.