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Why does the return needed to recover differ from the loss percentage?
A hypothetical investment of 100 falls by 20% to 80. Returning to 100 requires a gain of 20, so the required return is 20÷80=25%. Similarly, losses of 30%, 40% and 50% require gains of approximately 42.9%, 66.7% and 100%, respectively. The formula is loss fraction÷(1−loss fraction); distinguish reaching an old account value through additional deposits from recovering the return on the original capital itself.
Check for yourself
- Have additional capital and the return on the original investment been calculated separately?
- Before counting staged purchases, have total investment, borrowing, cash needs and tolerable losses been checked?
Limits of application
This is arithmetic using an arbitrary index, not a forecast or specific trading rule. Taxes, transaction costs, interest, additional trades and dividends are excluded. Knowing the required recovery return establishes neither the timing nor probability of a rebound.
- What to look for
- Examine the additional conditions needed to move from a business forecast of continued AI demand to an investment judgment that share prices will recover.
- Why it matters
- Distinguish backlog, revenue and cash flow, and test whether peer comparisons, election statistics and sentiment signals support current valuations. Calculating recovery returns helps compare total exposure and loss limits alongside staged decisions.
Timeline
7 segmentsThis section argues for considering both backlog and free cash flow when evaluating continued AI investment. Company-specific backlog, conversion and cash-flow figures were not independently checked against the latest filings and are not adopted as confirmed data. A higher share expected to become revenue within a period does not establish cash collection or cash remaining after capital spending in that period; contracts, billing, collections and investment schedules need checking.