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American Stores

ASC · Grocery · NYSE · in our data January 2, 1968 to June 23, 1999 (31.5 years)

Our price history begins on January 2, 1968, and American Stores was already trading then; how long before that, our data does not say. At its peak, on January 8, 1999, the market valued it at $10.7 billion. It left the market without a crash, last trading at $32.88. The delisting record says: delisted or deregistered. Many companies end this way when they are bought, merged or taken private.

1968-011999-06
Peak market value$10.7 billionJanuary 8, 1999
Highest split-adjusted share price$38.89January 8, 1999
Last share price$32.88June 23, 1999
From its split-adjusted high to the end-15.5%
Return over the days in our data+13039.9%with dividends, before the last trade
Worst single day-26.9%October 19, 1987

Share prices are adjusted for splits and other share changes, so the high and the last price compare like for like; the peak market value is as it was on the day. The return covers the trading days in our data only: it does not include what holders received, or lost, after the last trade (a merger payout, a bankruptcy), and it does not reach back before 1968. How these numbers are made · Report a data issue.

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Also gone in 1999: Grocery