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.
The deepest drawdowns on record#
Every decline of 15% or more from an all-time high (price basis), deepest first.
| Peak | Trough | Depth | Peak → trough | Recovered by | Underwater |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 2025 | Oct 1, 2026 | −71.7% | 1.6 yrs | not yet | 1.7 yrs+ |
| Apr 9, 2021 | Jun 16, 2022 | −70.0% | 14 mo | Nov 11, 2024 | 3.6 yrs |
| Jul 10, 2020 | Jul 24, 2020 | −21.1% | 14 days | Aug 10, 2020 | 31 days |
| Oct 12, 2020 | Nov 2, 2020 | −20.4% | 21 days | Nov 9, 2020 | 28 days |
| Jun 19, 2020 | Jul 1, 2020 | −18.6% | 12 days | Jul 7, 2020 | 18 days |
| Mar 15, 2021 | Mar 24, 2021 | −17.6% | 9 days | Apr 8, 2021 | 24 days |
| Aug 25, 2020 | Sep 18, 2020 | −15.8% | 24 days | Oct 6, 2020 | 42 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.
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.
