Bitcoin vs Litecoin
Bitcoin measured against Litecoin over three years of daily closes: returns, risk, drawdowns and risk-adjusted ratios. Change the assets, benchmark or period in the bar above the report.
Snapshot as of
1,095 common daily closes, Nov 9, 2023 to Nov 7, 2026. Risk-free rate 4.0% (3-month US T-bill), 365-day annualization.
BTC has the highest risk-adjusted score. It leads LTC by 24.3 points.
| BTC | 44.3 | Weak |
| LTCBenchmark | 20.0 | Risk High |
| 2026 (to Nov 7) | −14.25% | −33.24% |
| 2025 | −4.64% | −20.70% |
| 2024 | +119.60% | +35.22% |
| 2023 (from Nov 9) | +18.37% | +0.55% |
| BTC | +112.57% | +28.63% | +11.94% | −14.07% |
| LTCBenchmark | −28.02% | −10.39% | +18.57% | −23.08% |
| LTCBenchmark | −70.18% | Jan 18, 2025 | Jun 26, 2026 | Not yet | 658d |
| BTC | −53.05% | Oct 7, 2025 | Jul 1, 2026 | Not yet | 396d |
| LTCBenchmark | −48.72% | Mar 30, 2024 | Aug 8, 2024 | Dec 2, 2024 | 247d |
| BTC | −28.15% | Jan 22, 2025 | Apr 9, 2025 | May 21, 2025 | 119d |
| LTCBenchmark | −27.97% | Dec 7, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | Jan 18, 2025 | 42d |
| BTC | −26.18% | Mar 14, 2024 | Sep 7, 2024 | Nov 7, 2024 | 238d |
| 2026 | −14.25% | −4.8% | −21.6% | +1.2% | +13.6% | −2.6% | −18.5% | +7.6% | +19.9% | +7.7% | −7.6% | −1.9% | — |
| 2025 | −4.64% | +13.0% | −19.1% | −2.8% | +14.5% | +10.3% | +4.2% | +8.7% | −7.6% | +5.0% | −5.2% | −16.2% | −2.7% |
| 2024 | +119.60% | +1.8% | +45.6% | +11.4% | −8.3% | +7.1% | −10.9% | +8.7% | −10.7% | +11.0% | +10.3% | +34.8% | −5.0% |
| 2023 | +18.37% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | +6.2% | +11.4% |
Sharpe and Sortino measure excess return over the risk-free rate (“vs cash”); Information ratio and Treynor are the benchmark-relative measures. Sortino downside deviation uses the full sample as its denominator. VaR is 95% parametric (normal). Data: CoinGecko (crypto), Financial Modeling Prep and Yahoo Finance (stocks, indices, commodities). Past performance does not indicate future results.