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Compare two assets — metals or crypto — and see which would have grown your money more, in your own currency.
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Historical data isn’t available for Bitcoin over this period.
Both assets rebased to 100 at the start, so you can compare growth directly.
This is a historical backtest: returns reflect each asset’s price move over the selected period, applied to your amount. Prices are converted to USD at the current exchange rate and exclude fees, spreads, storage and taxes. Past performance does not guarantee future results — this is not financial advice.
Every tracked asset ranked by its 1-year return — see what led and what lagged.
Over the past year, Silver led the pack at +88.7%, while Bitcoin lagged at -39.9%.
| # | Asset | 1 Month | 1 Year | 5 Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silver | -15.36% ↓ | +88.71% ↑ | +146.24% ↑ |
| 2 | Platinum | -15.34% ↓ | +49.20% ↑ | +51.56% ↑ |
| 3 | Gold | -8.33% ↓ | +30.60% ↑ | +128.88% ↑ |
| 4 | Copper | +1.61% ↑ | +27.83% ↑ | +37.38% ↑ |
| 5 | Palladium | -19.51% ↓ | +12.42% ↑ | -56.01% ↓ |
| 6 | Ethereum | -27.29% ↓ | -32.98% ↓ | -33.65% ↓ |
| 7 | Bitcoin | -20.75% ↓ | -39.88% ↓ | +81.12% ↑ |
Ranked by 1-year return (USD price). Past performance does not guarantee future results — not financial advice.
Everyone who has ever held gold has wondered it at some point: “What if I had put that money into Bitcoin instead — or into silver, or just left it where it was?” Most price tools can’t tell you, because they only ever show one asset at a time. The Investment Analyzer is built to answer exactly that question. You choose two assets, type in an amount, pick a stretch of time, and it lays the two outcomes side by side so the comparison is impossible to misread.
For each asset, the tool looks up its price at the start of the period you selected and its live price right now, then works out the percentage change between them. Your amount is grown by that same percentage — so a 20% rise turns a 1,000 investment into 1,200, and a 15% fall leaves you with 850. Because the return is a percentage of the asset’s own price move, your money is treated honestly in whatever currency you’ve chosen; the exchange rate only affects how the per-unit prices are displayed, not the maths behind the profit.
Each asset gets its own card showing the current price, its open, high, low and close for the period, an individual price chart, and the bottom line — what you invested, what it’s worth now, and the profit or loss. Above them, a plain-English verdict names the winner and the exact margin, and a combined chart rebases both assets to 100 at the start so you can watch one pull ahead of the other.
Gold and Bitcoin are constantly framed as rivals — the ancient store of value versus the digital upstart nicknamed “digital gold.” In reality they behave very differently. Gold tends to move slowly and hold its nerve in a crisis; Bitcoin can double or halve in a year. Silver, platinum and palladium add an industrial dimension, rising and falling with the economy as much as with investor mood, while copper is so tied to growth it’s nicknamed “Dr. Copper.” Putting any two of them through the same amount and the same period is a genuinely useful way to feel the trade-off between steadiness and explosive potential.
A single period rarely tells the whole story, so it’s worth switching between timeframes. A coin that looks spectacular over the last 24 hours might be deep in the red over three years; a metal that looks dull this month may be the steadier compounder over five. Treat the analyzer as a way to build context and challenge your assumptions, not as a prediction. It describes what has already happened — markets decide what happens next.
Want to value something you already own instead? Use the calculators on the Gold Tools & Calculators page, track the live markets on the markets hub, or study the long-term trend on our gold charts. Results here are a historical backtest for educational purposes only, they exclude fees, spreads, storage and taxes, and nothing on this page is financial advice.
Pick two assets, enter an amount in your currency, and choose a period. The tool reads each asset’s price at the start of that period and its price now, calculates the percentage change, and applies it to your amount — so you can see what you would have today and which asset performed better.
Any two of gold, silver, platinum, palladium and copper, plus the cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum. You can pit a metal against a crypto, two metals against each other, or two cryptos.
The last 24 hours, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 1 year, 3 years and 5 years. Shorter windows highlight recent momentum; longer ones reveal the bigger trend and ride out short-term noise.
Yes. Set your currency in the navbar and the invested amount, value and profit all appear in it. Per-unit prices are converted at the current exchange rate, while the percentage return reflects the asset’s international (USD) price move.
No. It is a clean historical backtest of price movement only. Real-world buying and selling adds dealer premiums, spreads, storage and taxes, so your actual outcome would differ.
No. It is an educational tool that shows what already happened. Past performance does not guarantee future results — always do your own research before investing.