The Graveyard
The 5,000 biggest US common stocks (by peak market value) that stopped trading, from a history of about 28,000 that have ended since 1962: how much each was worth at its peak, how it ended, and what the chart looked like on the way. A stock that stops trading is not always a company that failed: many were bought, merged or taken private, and each page says which where our data knows. Then play the market they died in, one day at a time, without knowing what's coming.
By year
1975 (2) · 1976 (2) · 1977 (3) · 1978 (4) · 1979 (6) · 1980 (14) · 1981 (22) · 1982 (20) · 1983 (17) · 1984 (24) · 1985 (43) · 1986 (51) · 1987 (40) · 1988 (60) · 1989 (46) · 1990 (33) · 1991 (24) · 1992 (33) · 1993 (30) · 1994 (38) · 1995 (70) · 1996 (94) · 1997 (134) · 1998 (186) · 1999 (220) · 2000 (253) · 2001 (269) · 2002 (170) · 2003 (152) · 2004 (118) · 2005 (158) · 2006 (161) · 2007 (231) · 2008 (158) · 2009 (125) · 2010 (133) · 2011 (143) · 2012 (110) · 2013 (123) · 2014 (98) · 2015 (133) · 2016 (176) · 2017 (153) · 2018 (136) · 2019 (139) · 2020 (119) · 2021 (120) · 2022 (130) · 2023 (158) · 2024 (118)
The biggest ever to go
- Lucent Technologies · $258.0 billion at peak · gone 2006
- Time Warner · $240.4 billion at peak · gone 2018
- EMC Corporation · $226.6 billion at peak · gone 2016
- AT&T Corporation · $207.1 billion at peak · gone 2005
- Sun Microsystems · $205.4 billion at peak · gone 2010
- Mci Inc · $180.0 billion at peak · gone 2002
- Dr Pepper Snapple Group · $171.5 billion at peak · gone 2018
- Dell · $149.7 billion at peak · gone 2013
- Altaba · $126.5 billion at peak · gone 2017
- Time Warner · $123.0 billion at peak · gone 2001
- Warner-Lambert · $115.9 billion at peak · gone 2000
- Wachovia Bank · $115.6 billion at peak · gone 2008
- Celgene · $115.3 billion at peak · gone 2019
- Genentech Inc · $105.3 billion at peak · gone 2009
- BellSouth · $98.4 billion at peak · gone 2006
- Reynolds American · $96.6 billion at peak · gone 2017
- Qwest Communications · $96.3 billion at peak · gone 2011
- DuPont · $93.1 billion at peak · gone 2017
- Wyeth · $91.9 billion at peak · gone 2009
- Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association) · $89.5 billion at peak · gone 2010
- Schering-Plough · $89.4 billion at peak · gone 2009
- Merrill Lynch · $86.0 billion at peak · gone 2008
- Mobil Corporation · $84.9 billion at peak · gone 1999
- Ameritech · $84.1 billion at peak · gone 1999
- Compaq Computer · $83.7 billion at peak · gone 2002
- Citicorp · $81.7 billion at peak · gone 1998
- Dow Chemical Company · $81.7 billion at peak · gone 2017
- Activision Blizzard · $80.4 billion at peak · gone 2023
- Pharmacia Corporation · $78.6 billion at peak · gone 2003
- Monsanto · $78.3 billion at peak · gone 2018
- Vmware Inc · $77.2 billion at peak · gone 2023
- GTE Corporation · $76.3 billion at peak · gone 2000
- Sprint Nextel · $76.1 billion at peak · gone 2013
- Bank One Corporation · $74.3 billion at peak · gone 2004
- Allergan · $72.0 billion at peak · gone 2015
- Gillette · $71.3 billion at peak · gone 2005
- Starz · $71.3 billion at peak · gone 2001
- Aetna · $69.6 billion at peak · gone 2018
- Pioneer Natural Resources · $69.0 billion at peak · gone 2024
- Veritas Software Corp · $68.2 billion at peak · gone 2005