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Could $500 a month in FTI grow toward $127K? 
Strong subsea results, impressive growth, and a recent pullback make FTI worth a closer look.
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Imagine setting aside $500 a month for $FTI for five years, buying a fixed dollar amount on a schedule, a method called dollar-cost averaging. In our example the buy happens on the first trading day on or after the 9th of each month, from Oct 2021 through Sep 2026 (the first buy lands on Monday, Oct 11, 2021, because Oct 9 was a Saturday): 60 buys, $30,000 in total.
FTI closed at $8.14 on Oct 8, 2021 and at $69.63 on Oct 8, 2026, a price gain of about 755.4%, or roughly 53.6% a year compounded (the steady yearly rate that would give the same total gain). In that example, the $30,000 would have been worth about $127,100 at the Oct 8, 2026 close (about 4.24 times the money put in), and a single $10,000 invested on Oct 8, 2021 would have become about $85,540. Price only: no dividends, fees or taxes, and these are examples, not forecasts.
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The highest close of the past 52 weeks was $80.08 on Sep 3, 2026 (intraday high $80.70 that day), so the Oct 8, 2026 close sat about 13.0% below it. The lowest close of the five years was $5.58 on Dec 1, 2021, about 31.5% below the $8.14 start.
Caution: past pace rarely continues. FTI's second-quarter 2026 release (quarter ended Jun 30, 2026) showed Subsea revenue up 12.6% sequentially and Subsea adjusted EBITDA up 31%, with Subsea inbound orders up 31.7%. The stock still slipped from an $80.08 close on Sep 3, 2026 to $70.62 on Sep 28, 2026, a reminder that prices can pause even when results are strong.
