Each quarter compounds its three months — the coarsest grain that still shows a cycle turning inside a single year.
This page compresses Dogecoin (DOGE)'s history into four cells per year — Q1 through Q4 — coarse enough to watch a cycle turn inside a single year. DOGE's quarterly grid is one bright stretch — the first half of 2021 — inside years of cooldown cells. Quarters make the meme-cycle rhythm legible: a detonation quarter, then a long quiet run until the rotation returns.
Each quarter compounds its three calendar months from UTC daily closes, so a cell is what a position held through those months would actually have returned. DOGE's data starts at its perpetual listing in mid 2020. The 2021 squeeze months remain among the largest monthly returns of any large cap tracked here, surrounded by long cooldowns.
Dogecoin is down 9.1% quarter-to-date in Q4 2026, compounding October through the daily close of 10 October 2026 (UTC). The figure keeps moving until the quarter closes.
Dogecoin returned +31.2% in Q3 2026, its most recent completed quarter, compounding that quarter's three monthly returns. The median Q3 return on record is −7.1%, so it came in above the norm.
Dogecoin's 2026 quarters so far: Q1 −21.4%, Q2 −21.9%, Q3 +31.2%, Q4 −9.1% (in progress). Compounded together they put Dogecoin down 26.8% year-to-date.
2025: Q1 −47.3%, Q2 −0.9%, Q3 +41.0%, Q4 −49.6%. The strongest quarter was Q3 at +41.0% and the weakest Q4 at −49.6%; the full year compounded to −62.8%.
Across 13 completed Q4s on record, the median Q4 return for Dogecoin is −4.9%. The best Q4 was 2017 at +683.4%, the worst 2018 at −60.3%, and 6 of 13 closed positive. The current Q4 is excluded until it closes.
By median return across all completed years, Q2 has been Dogecoin's strongest quarter at −0.9% and Q1 its weakest at −10.7%. Q1 −10.7%, Q2 −0.9%, Q3 −7.1%, Q4 −4.9% are the four medians; they shift as each new year is added.
Across 52 completed quarters, Dogecoin's best was Q1 2021 at +1,066% and its worst Q1 2018 at −68.6%. 23 of 52 quarters closed positive.
The grid answers live, but the 2021 squeeze quarters remain its defining cells — later revival quarters exist yet none has matched their scale. The Median row stays modest because most DOGE quarters were quiet.
DOGE's history here begins at its first daily perpetual-futures candle on Binance in mid 2020, so the grid starts with the first quarter completed after that date. All medians are computed from that point on.
Because returns compound. A +10% month followed by a −10% month leaves −1%, not 0%. The quarterly figure multiplies the monthly factors together, which is the return a held position would actually see.