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Shift4 Payments Inc. drawdown: 67.8% below the all-time high (price)

Shift4 Payments Inc. is 67.8% below its all-time high, set Feb 18, 2025 (as of market close, Oct 20, 2026), measured on price alone — dividends are not included, the convention headlines and crash histories use. The chart shows every day as a percentage of the highest level reached up to that point: 100% means a fresh record, everything below is a drawdown.

Below all-time high
−67.8%
32.2% of ATH
All-time high
$125.66
Feb 18, 2025
Time below the high
1.7 yrs
since Feb 18, 2025
Worst-ever drawdown
−71.7%
Oct 1, 2026
Longest underwater
3.6 yrs
between all-time highs
Today's level first reached
Jun 19, 2020
6.3 yrs ago
Last time this deep
Jul 14, 2022
in a previous episode

% of all-time high since 2020: price#

The classic underwater chart (drawdown curve), drawn as % of the all-time high — 100% is a fresh record, everything below it is time spent underwater. Basis and range are in the URL, so a particular view is a link.

Basis
Range
All-time high = 100%40%60%80%
FOUR close · log50.00100
202120222023202420252026

The deepest drawdowns on record#

Every decline of 15% or more from an all-time high (price basis), deepest first.

PeakTroughDepthPeak → troughRecovered byUnderwater
Feb 18, 2025Oct 1, 2026−71.7%1.6 yrsnot yet1.7 yrs+
Apr 9, 2021Jun 16, 2022−70.0%14 moNov 11, 20243.6 yrs
Jul 10, 2020Jul 24, 2020−21.1%14 daysAug 10, 202031 days
Oct 12, 2020Nov 2, 2020−20.4%21 daysNov 9, 202028 days
Jun 19, 2020Jul 1, 2020−18.6%12 daysJul 7, 202018 days
Mar 15, 2021Mar 24, 2021−17.6%9 daysApr 8, 202124 days
Aug 25, 2020Sep 18, 2020−15.8%24 daysOct 6, 202042 days

Price basis (no dividends) — the convention crash histories use. With dividends reinvested, recoveries arrive years earlier; switch the basis on the chart above to see it.

Drawdown vs what came next#

One dot per month since 2020: how far Shift4 Payments Inc. stood below its all-time high, and the total return over the following 1, 5 and 10 years.

1950–19992000–today

Read this with survivorship bias in mind: a single asset's history is one surviving sample, so past recoveries here say little about the odds ahead. Monthly windows also overlap heavily (they are not independent samples). Not investment advice.

FAQ#

How far is Shift4 Payments Inc. from its all-time high?
Shift4 Payments Inc. is currently 67.8% below its all-time high, set Feb 18, 2025 (as of market close, Oct 20, 2026). Prices only, the convention headlines use; with dividends reinvested the gap is usually smaller.
What was the biggest Shift4 Payments Inc. drawdown ever?
The deepest decline on record in our data (since 2020) took Shift4 Payments Inc. 71.7% below its prior high, bottoming Oct 1, 2026. The table on this page lists every major episode with its peak, trough and recovery date.

Methodology & related#

Daily data since -1 from FOUR; no free deep history exists for Shift4 Payments Inc. — for a 150-year drawdown record see the S&P 500 drawdown page. The price basis excludes dividends; the total-return basis reinvests them; the real basis additionally deflates by CPI. See also returns by year. Past performance does not predict future returns; not investment advice.

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