Regulatory Scenario
What happens to my portfolio if the US reverses all EV mandates and reinstates fossil fuel subsidies?
This scenario explores what could happen if US policy swings decisively back toward fossil fuels and away from electrification mandates. The analysis focuses on how that shift may ripple through equity styles, transition-linked commodities, crypto sentiment, and portfolio-level drawdowns over the next 12 months.
This is a hypothetical scenario analysis for educational purposes. It is not a prediction, forecast, or investment recommendation.
Portfolio stress test
Current value
$135,275.52
Scenario value
$99,686.06
Key risks
Affected holdings





Portfolio stress test
Current value
$135,275.52
Scenario value
$99,686.06
Key risks
Affected holdings





Visual analysis
How a sample portfolio could behave
Illustrative projections showing how a sample portfolio might respond under a what happens to my portfolio if the us reverses all ev mandates and reinstates fossil fuel subsidies? scenario across different time horizons.
All charts show illustrative data for educational purposes only. Actual portfolio results will vary.
Key takeaways
Key Takeaways
The dominant effect in this scenario is a rotation away from long-duration growth and transition-linked assets toward old-economy and value exposures. In this portfolio, that translates into meaningful downside, with particular pressure on premium tech, software, and copper-linked names.
Style Rotation
Capital shifts from growth, innovation, and long-duration assets toward energy, value, and more cyclical sectors as policy support for transition themes fades.
Transition Demand Reset
Lower expected EV penetration reduces enthusiasm for copper and other transition-metal demand, pressuring miners tied to electrification narratives.
Relative Fundamental Cushion
Some financials and mature cash-generative businesses may hold up better if lower fuel costs support household cash flow and credit quality.
Valuation Compression
Higher discount rates and lower market willingness to pay for distant cash flows weigh on richly valued tech and software leaders.
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Portfolio exposure
Portfolio Impact Analysis
How this scenario flows through to portfolio positions
Under Pressure
Premium technology
HighHigh valuations and long-duration cash flow profiles make large-cap tech especially sensitive to multiple compression.
Software and innovation growth
HighInvestors become less willing to pay for distant growth when policy and market leadership shift toward value and energy.
Transition-metal miners
MedLower expected EV demand weakens the case for copper scarcity and long-dated electrification upside.
Altcoins and high-beta digital assets
HighCrypto breadth usually narrows in value-led, risk-off rotations, leaving smaller or more speculative tokens more exposed.
More Resilient
Banks and lenders
StrongLower fuel costs can slightly support borrower affordability and reduce credit stress, even if upside is mostly relative.
Bitcoin versus smaller tokens
StrongBitcoin still faces sentiment pressure, but deeper liquidity and institutional market structure can moderate downside compared with altcoins.
Operationally resilient mega-caps
ModLarge businesses with strong margins and cash generation may fare better operationally, even if valuation still compresses.
This analysis is based on the specific portfolio run. Individual holdings may vary.
Example portfolio
Holding-by-holding scenario impact
See how each holding in a sample portfolio could be affected, with portfolio weight and estimated scenario impact.
| Holding | Weight | Scenario impact | Contribution | Key exposure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() BTC Bitcoin | 24% | -5% | -1.2% | The key point is that the scenario overlay trims Bitcoin's 12-month price target to $67,417.70 from the current $70,966.00, with a 6-month target of $65,288.72, while the market-relative framework still shows no fundamental cash-flow anchor and an immaterial $0.35 fair value. The transmission is almost entirely through positioning: a fossil-fuel-policy reversal favors old-economy/value leadership and reduces marginal demand for non-yielding, high-beta alternatives, echoing the 2021-2022 value/energy rotation when crypto underperformed despite improving institutional infrastructure. Downside is moderated versus smaller tokens because ETF and CME market structure provides a stronger liquidity base, but with WACC rising to 10.6% from 10.3%, the scenario still implies a modest de-rating via sentiment and relative risk appetite rather than protocol fundamentals. |
![]() ETH Ethereum | 8% | -8% | -0.6% | Ethereum screens as more exposed than Bitcoin: the scenario cuts the 12-month price target to $2,017.89 from $2,193.36, with 6-month and 24-month targets of $1,930.16 and $2,105.63, while the market-relative fair value remains an immaterial $0.35. The transmission channel is a de-rating of innovation and platform optionality as policy support shifts away from transition-tech ecosystems, which matters more for ETH because its valuation is tied to expectations for on-chain growth and institutional adoption; that is consistent with the 2022 analogue when smart-contract tokens derated more than BTC during value/energy leadership. Staking yield softens the move, but the higher scenario WACC of 10.7% versus 10.3% and ETH's higher beta mean sentiment compression should dominate. |
![]() XRP XRP | 9% | -8% | -0.7% | XRP's scenario is primarily a sentiment and breadth story, with the 12-month target slipping to $1.22 from $1.33 and the 6-month target at $1.16, while fair value remains $0.35, or 73.7% below spot. The transmission channel is broad crypto de-risking rather than any direct effect on payments utility: a fossil-fuel-led value rotation narrows speculative market breadth, and historically altcoins have underperformed BTC in that setup, as seen in the 2022 macro de-risking/value rotation analogue. With scenario WACC moving to 10.7% from 10.3% and a smaller institutional moat than Bitcoin, XRP has less downside protection even though protocol roadmap progress provides a partial cushion. |
![]() NVDA NVIDIA Corporation | 17% | -24% | -4.1% | The central quantitative takeaway is that NVIDIA's scenario fair value falls to $106.31 from a base $113.56, versus a current price of $188.63, implying 43.6% downside even though the scenario only nudges WACC to 9.5% from 9.0%. That pressure is mainly multiple-driven: at 38.2x P/E and a 2.1% FCF yield, NVDA is exposed to long-duration growth compression in a value/energy rotation, similar to the 2022 analogue, while cheaper fossil-fuel power is only a second-order positive for data-center economics and does not offset derating risk. The 12-month scenario price target of $143.05, with $155.59 at 6 months, reflects resilient AI demand and very strong margins but a lower market willingness to capitalize distant cash flows. |
![]() BHP BHP Group | 0% | -48% | 0.0% | BHP is hit through the demand-expectation channel: scenario fair value drops to $7.94 from $9.73 versus a current price of $54.02, and the 12-month scenario target falls to $27.94, reflecting a sharp de-rating of long-dated copper optionality. The policy reversal lowers expected EV penetration and weakens the market's willingness to capitalize transition-metal scarcity, a setup analogous to 2015-2016 commodity demand downgrades and later periods when copper equities derated relative to diversified miners. BHP's 43.9% operating margin and balance-sheet resilience help on fundamentals, but the scenario WACC rises to 11.5% from 11.1% and the market's strategic rerating case around copper becomes less compelling. |
![]() AAPL Apple | 29% | -53% | -15.4% | Apple's setup is primarily one of valuation sensitivity: the scenario framework keeps fair value at an immaterial $0.35 versus a $260.48 stock price, while the scenario price targets step down to $168.78 at 6 months and $121.96 at 12 months. The transmission channel is 2022-style quality-tech multiple compression as capital rotates toward value and energy; cheaper fuel modestly helps logistics and consumer disposable income, but that operating benefit is small relative to the risk of de-rating a stock on 35.0x P/E, 26.2x EV/EBITDA, and a 2.6% FCF yield. With WACC increasing to 16.3% from 15.9%, the market is likely to pay less for Apple's duration even though the business remains operationally resilient. |
![]() AMZN Amazon | 5% | -31% | -1.6% | Amazon's scenario fair value slips to $100.36 from $105.45 versus a current price of $238.38, and the 12-month scenario target of $164.13 reflects a stock that remains highly exposed to duration compression. At 33.3x P/E and just a 0.5% FCF yield, AMZN is especially vulnerable to a growth-to-value rotation, even if lower fuel prices slightly help retail margins, consumer spending, and over time AWS power costs; that mirrors the 2022 analogue when heavy-investment platforms de-rated despite solid operations. The scenario WACC rises to 11.0% from 10.5%, and with capex guidance around $200,000, investors are likely to discount future cash flows more aggressively than the modest operating tailwinds justify. |
![]() CBA Commonwealth Bank of Australia | 8% | -31% | -2.5% | CBA is one of the few names with a mildly supportive fundamental transmission: scenario fair value rises to $72.29 from $70.36 as WACC eases to 9.2% from 9.3%, reflecting slightly better borrower cash flow and lower impairment risk from cheaper fuel. Even so, that remains far below the current $183.95 share price, and the 12-month scenario target of $127.63 suggests any benefit is mostly relative rather than absolute because value rotation can favor banks while the stock already trades on an elevated 56.6x P/E. The historical analogue is benign Australian energy-cost periods when banks benefited through credit quality and style rotation, not through major EPS reacceleration. |
FIG Figma, Inc. | 0% | -54% | 0.0% | Figma is a clean duration trade in this scenario: the 12-month target falls to $8.36 from $18.16 currently, with a 6-month target of $11.51, while the comps-based fair value remains an immaterial $0.35. The transmission channel is classic software multiple compression in a value/energy rotation, closely matching the 2022 software derating analogue; direct operating benefit from fossil-fuel subsidies is negligible, and FIG's -122.2% operating margin makes investors less willing to pay for long-dated growth despite strong product metrics and a 23.3% FCF margin. A rise in WACC to 9.4% from 8.8% reinforces that the scenario is about lower valuation tolerance for premium, innovation-linked software rather than a collapse in near-term revenue. |
| Portfolio total | 100% | -26.0% | Weighted scenario impact |

BTC
Bitcoin
The key point is that the scenario overlay trims Bitcoin's 12-month price target to $67,417.70 from the current $70,966.00, with a 6-month target of $65,288.72, while the market-relative framework still shows no fundamental cash-flow anchor and an immaterial $0.35 fair value. The transmission is almost entirely through positioning: a fossil-fuel-policy reversal favors old-economy/value leadership and reduces marginal demand for non-yielding, high-beta alternatives, echoing the 2021-2022 value/energy rotation when crypto underperformed despite improving institutional infrastructure. Downside is moderated versus smaller tokens because ETF and CME market structure provides a stronger liquidity base, but with WACC rising to 10.6% from 10.3%, the scenario still implies a modest de-rating via sentiment and relative risk appetite rather than protocol fundamentals.

ETH
Ethereum
Ethereum screens as more exposed than Bitcoin: the scenario cuts the 12-month price target to $2,017.89 from $2,193.36, with 6-month and 24-month targets of $1,930.16 and $2,105.63, while the market-relative fair value remains an immaterial $0.35. The transmission channel is a de-rating of innovation and platform optionality as policy support shifts away from transition-tech ecosystems, which matters more for ETH because its valuation is tied to expectations for on-chain growth and institutional adoption; that is consistent with the 2022 analogue when smart-contract tokens derated more than BTC during value/energy leadership. Staking yield softens the move, but the higher scenario WACC of 10.7% versus 10.3% and ETH's higher beta mean sentiment compression should dominate.

XRP
XRP
XRP's scenario is primarily a sentiment and breadth story, with the 12-month target slipping to $1.22 from $1.33 and the 6-month target at $1.16, while fair value remains $0.35, or 73.7% below spot. The transmission channel is broad crypto de-risking rather than any direct effect on payments utility: a fossil-fuel-led value rotation narrows speculative market breadth, and historically altcoins have underperformed BTC in that setup, as seen in the 2022 macro de-risking/value rotation analogue. With scenario WACC moving to 10.7% from 10.3% and a smaller institutional moat than Bitcoin, XRP has less downside protection even though protocol roadmap progress provides a partial cushion.

NVDA
NVIDIA Corporation
The central quantitative takeaway is that NVIDIA's scenario fair value falls to $106.31 from a base $113.56, versus a current price of $188.63, implying 43.6% downside even though the scenario only nudges WACC to 9.5% from 9.0%. That pressure is mainly multiple-driven: at 38.2x P/E and a 2.1% FCF yield, NVDA is exposed to long-duration growth compression in a value/energy rotation, similar to the 2022 analogue, while cheaper fossil-fuel power is only a second-order positive for data-center economics and does not offset derating risk. The 12-month scenario price target of $143.05, with $155.59 at 6 months, reflects resilient AI demand and very strong margins but a lower market willingness to capitalize distant cash flows.

BHP
BHP Group
BHP is hit through the demand-expectation channel: scenario fair value drops to $7.94 from $9.73 versus a current price of $54.02, and the 12-month scenario target falls to $27.94, reflecting a sharp de-rating of long-dated copper optionality. The policy reversal lowers expected EV penetration and weakens the market's willingness to capitalize transition-metal scarcity, a setup analogous to 2015-2016 commodity demand downgrades and later periods when copper equities derated relative to diversified miners. BHP's 43.9% operating margin and balance-sheet resilience help on fundamentals, but the scenario WACC rises to 11.5% from 11.1% and the market's strategic rerating case around copper becomes less compelling.

AAPL
Apple
Apple's setup is primarily one of valuation sensitivity: the scenario framework keeps fair value at an immaterial $0.35 versus a $260.48 stock price, while the scenario price targets step down to $168.78 at 6 months and $121.96 at 12 months. The transmission channel is 2022-style quality-tech multiple compression as capital rotates toward value and energy; cheaper fuel modestly helps logistics and consumer disposable income, but that operating benefit is small relative to the risk of de-rating a stock on 35.0x P/E, 26.2x EV/EBITDA, and a 2.6% FCF yield. With WACC increasing to 16.3% from 15.9%, the market is likely to pay less for Apple's duration even though the business remains operationally resilient.

AMZN
Amazon
Amazon's scenario fair value slips to $100.36 from $105.45 versus a current price of $238.38, and the 12-month scenario target of $164.13 reflects a stock that remains highly exposed to duration compression. At 33.3x P/E and just a 0.5% FCF yield, AMZN is especially vulnerable to a growth-to-value rotation, even if lower fuel prices slightly help retail margins, consumer spending, and over time AWS power costs; that mirrors the 2022 analogue when heavy-investment platforms de-rated despite solid operations. The scenario WACC rises to 11.0% from 10.5%, and with capex guidance around $200,000, investors are likely to discount future cash flows more aggressively than the modest operating tailwinds justify.

CBA
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
CBA is one of the few names with a mildly supportive fundamental transmission: scenario fair value rises to $72.29 from $70.36 as WACC eases to 9.2% from 9.3%, reflecting slightly better borrower cash flow and lower impairment risk from cheaper fuel. Even so, that remains far below the current $183.95 share price, and the 12-month scenario target of $127.63 suggests any benefit is mostly relative rather than absolute because value rotation can favor banks while the stock already trades on an elevated 56.6x P/E. The historical analogue is benign Australian energy-cost periods when banks benefited through credit quality and style rotation, not through major EPS reacceleration.
FIG
Figma, Inc.
Figma is a clean duration trade in this scenario: the 12-month target falls to $8.36 from $18.16 currently, with a 6-month target of $11.51, while the comps-based fair value remains an immaterial $0.35. The transmission channel is classic software multiple compression in a value/energy rotation, closely matching the 2022 software derating analogue; direct operating benefit from fossil-fuel subsidies is negligible, and FIG's -122.2% operating margin makes investors less willing to pay for long-dated growth despite strong product metrics and a 23.3% FCF margin. A rise in WACC to 9.4% from 8.8% reinforces that the scenario is about lower valuation tolerance for premium, innovation-linked software rather than a collapse in near-term revenue.
Weighted portfolio impact
-26.0%
Illustrative example only. Actual portfolio impacts depend on specific holdings, timing, and scenario severity.
Example analysis
How Key Holdings Are Affected
Asset-level scenario impact for holdings in this analysis
FIG
Figma, Inc.
Figma looks highly exposed because this scenario is hostile to premium software multiples and long-duration growth stories. Direct business benefits from fossil-fuel support are limited, while higher discount rates and weaker appetite for innovation assets hit valuation hard.
Key drivers
- •software multiple compression
- •higher discount rate sensitivity
- •limited direct operating benefit
What investors would watch

AAPL
Apple
Apple remains operationally strong, but the stock appears vulnerable to quality-tech de-rating in a value and energy rotation. Lower fuel costs are a modest offset, yet valuation sensitivity dominates in this framework.
Key drivers
- •quality-tech multiple compression
- •high starting valuation
- •rotation toward value sectors
What investors would watch

BHP
BHP Group
BHP is pressured mainly through weaker enthusiasm for copper and electrification demand rather than a collapse in core operations. The market may pay less for transition-metal optionality if EV adoption expectations are revised lower.
Key drivers
- •weaker EV-linked copper narrative
- •strategic commodity de-rating
- •higher cost of capital
What investors would watch

NVDA
NVIDIA Corporation
NVIDIA still benefits from strong AI demand, but this scenario primarily challenges its valuation rather than its core business momentum. The stock is exposed to long-duration growth compression even if lower energy costs slightly help data-center economics.
Key drivers
- •AI multiple compression
- •growth-to-value rotation
- •elevated valuation base
What investors would watch

BTC
Bitcoin
Bitcoin is negatively affected mostly through positioning and sentiment, not fundamental cash-flow mechanics. In a fossil-fuel-led value rotation, demand for non-yielding, high-beta alternatives can soften, though Bitcoin may hold up better than smaller crypto assets.
Key drivers
- •risk appetite deterioration
- •crypto breadth narrowing
- •relative preference for value assets
What investors would watch

CBA
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
CBA is one of the relatively steadier names in this scenario because lower fuel costs may slightly improve household cash flow and credit quality. Even so, resilience is relative, since valuation remains an important constraint.
Key drivers
- •modest credit quality support
- •value style tailwind
- •defensive earnings profile
What investors would watch
Assets to watch
Winners & Losers
Which asset types and sectors tend to benefit or suffer
Potentially more exposed
High-multiple technology
These stocks are most exposed to valuation compression as investors rotate away from long-duration growth.
High sensitivityTransition metals and EV-linked miners
Reduced confidence in electrification demand can pressure copper and other materials tied to EV adoption.
High sensitivityAltcoins and speculative crypto
Breadth typically narrows in value-led de-risking phases, leaving higher-beta digital assets under pressure.
Medium sensitivityPotentially more resilient
Banks and lenders
Lower fuel costs can support borrower cash flow and make financials relatively more attractive in a value rotation.
Low sensitivityTraditional energy and value sectors
These areas usually benefit more directly from policy support for fossil fuels and from a broader style shift.
Low sensitivityBitcoin versus smaller tokens
Bitcoin may still decline, but stronger liquidity and institutional access can offer better relative resilience than altcoins.
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Common questions about portfolio scenario analysis and what this stress test reveals.
The main issue is valuation, not necessarily collapsing business performance. When markets rotate toward value and energy, investors often pay less for distant future earnings, which pressures richly valued tech and software names.
This scenario is less about fossil-fuel producers directly and more about reduced enthusiasm for electrification. If EV mandates are reversed, the market may assume weaker long-term demand for copper and other transition metals, which can weigh on miners linked to that theme.
The impact comes mostly through sentiment, liquidity, and positioning rather than direct policy linkage. In a value-led market rotation, non-yielding and high-beta assets often lose relative appeal, with altcoins generally underperforming Bitcoin.
Yes, banks and some mature cash-generative businesses may hold up better on a relative basis. Lower fuel costs can modestly support consumer finances and credit quality, although that does not guarantee positive absolute returns.
No. The macro assumptions here still point to moderate growth, 3% inflation, 4.5% unemployment, and a 4.25% Fed funds rate. The portfolio damage is driven more by market repricing and style rotation than by an outright economic downturn.
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