Pepe Investment Calculator
What would buying PEPE have been worth? Pick a plan and a start date and this replays it against real daily Pepe closes.
What PEPE actually did, in the data this page replays
Measured from the 1,228 daily closes this page replays — 5 May 2023 to 13 September 2026, from Binance. Figures are bounded by that window, not by the asset’s whole life.
| History available | 3 years and 4 months (from Binance) |
|---|---|
| Bought on the first day, held to the last | 0.925× — a loss of 7.5% |
| Highest close in this window | $0.00002649 on 9 December 2024 |
| Where it sits against that high | 87% below |
| Deepest fall | −91.2%, 9 December 2024 → 30 June 2026 |
| Time to get back to that peak | still below it |
| Separate falls of 50% or more | 4 |
| Days spent more than 20% below a previous peak | 92.5% |
| Best calendar year | 2024: +1,315.6% |
| Worst calendar year | 2025: -79.2% |
| Annualised volatility | 134.6% |
PEPE year by year
First close to last close each year. 2023 and 2026 are partial — the data starts mid-2023 and 2026 is still running.
| Year | Change | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | -65.1% | partial year |
| 2024 | +1,315.6% | best full year |
| 2025 | -79.2% | worst full year |
| 2026 | -29.9% | partial year |
The part the calculator does not show you
Held from the first day in this data to the last, PEPE returned 0.925× — a loss of 7.5%. Long holding periods are usually presented as the thing that rescues a volatile asset, and over this particular window for this particular coin, they did not. It is worth setting the calculator above to the full range and seeing that result written out before assuming time fixes an entry.
The deepest fall took PEPE down 91.2%, from $0.00002649 on 9 December 2024 to $0.00000233 on 30 June 2026 — 19 months of falling. PEPE has not been back to that peak since. Anyone who bought on 9 December 2024 is still waiting, 22 months later — which is the scenario a backtest showing a positive average return quietly averages away.
At 134.6% annualised volatility, PEPE sits in the top band of anything on this site — the drawdown figures above, not the average, are the number to plan around. All PEPE calculators →
Frequently asked questions
＋Would buying PEPE on the first day of this data and holding have made money?
No. Held across the whole window the position ended at 0.925× — a loss of 7.5%. That is worth stating plainly because "hold long enough and it recovers" is the usual advice, and over the 3 years and 4 months we hold for PEPE it did not happen.
＋What is the worst PEPE has fallen?
91.2% in this data, from 9 December 2024 down to 30 June 2026 — 19 months of falling. It has not returned to that peak since, so anyone who bought at the top is still waiting. Bear in mind our PEPE series starts in 2023; a deeper fall before that date would not appear here.
＋How often does PEPE lose half its value?
4 separate falls of 50% or more appear in this data, and the position spent 92.5% of all days more than 20% below a previous peak. A drop of that size is not an exceptional event for this asset — it is a recurring feature of the record, which is the thing to size a position around.
＋What were PEPE's best and worst years?
2024 was the best at +1,315.6%, and 2025 the worst at -79.2%. The gap between those two is the reason a single average annual return is a poor description of this asset: almost nobody experiences the average, they experience one of the two extremes depending on when they bought.
＋Is 3 years and 4 months of data enough to trust this backtest?
Partly. 3 years and 4 months covers real bull and bear conditions for PEPE but not a full cycle end to end, so the extremes above are better guides than the average. Coins on this site with longer records give more meaningful answers.
What to keep in mind for PEPE
PEPE is among the most volatile assets with real liquidity: multi-hundred-percent runs and 80%+ drawdowns have both happened inside single quarters.
PEPE is an Ethereum token, so a transfer costs the same gas as any ERC-20 — for small positions the gas can be a meaningful share of the trade.
A backtest is one path that already happened. It shows what this plan produced through the exact sequence of prices PEPE went through — not what a similar plan will produce through a sequence nobody has seen yet.