Each quarter compounds its three months — the coarsest grain that still shows a cycle turning inside a single year.
This page compresses Pepe (PEPE)'s history into four cells per year — Q1 through Q4 — coarse enough to watch a cycle turn inside a single year. PEPE's quarters are made or unmade by single rotation bursts — a quarter catching one prints near the scale's top, the quarters between bleed. It is the memecoin lifecycle at its most legible: birth, drawdown, revival, repeat.
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. PEPE's data starts at its perpetual listing in 2023. Born in the 2023 memecoin wave, its early months printed returns most assets never see in a year.
Pepe is down 5.7% 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.
Pepe returned +83.9% in Q3 2026, its most recent completed quarter, compounding that quarter's three monthly returns. The median Q3 return on record is −8.3%, so it came in above the norm.
Pepe's 2026 quarters so far: Q1 −15.6%, Q2 −31.6%, Q3 +83.9%, Q4 −5.7% (in progress). Compounded together they put Pepe up 0.1% year-to-date.
2025: Q1 −63.9%, Q2 +35.2%, Q3 −4.3%, Q4 −56.7%. The strongest quarter was Q2 at +35.2% and the weakest Q1 at −63.9%; the full year compounded to −79.8%.
Across 3 completed Q4s on record, the median Q4 return for Pepe is +62.3%. The best Q4 was 2024 at +90.6%, the worst 2025 at −56.7%, and 2 of 3 closed positive. The current Q4 is excluded until it closes.
By median return across all completed years, Q4 has been Pepe's strongest quarter at +62.3% and Q1 its weakest at −15.6%. Q1 −15.6%, Q2 +35.2%, Q3 −8.3%, Q4 +62.3% are the four medians; they shift as each new year is added.
Across 14 completed quarters, Pepe's best was Q2 2023 at +15,247,313% and its worst Q1 2025 at −63.9%. 7 of 14 quarters closed positive.
A meme rotation landing inside it — PEPE's strong quarters coincide with the market's periodic memecoin waves rather than any seasonal pattern. The quarters between them mostly compound bleed.
PEPE's history here begins at its first daily perpetual-futures candle on Binance in 2023, 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.