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Best Products

BESOQ · Unknown · NYSE · in our data December 14, 1972 to November 8, 1988 (15.9 years)

Our price history begins on December 14, 1972, and Best Products was already trading then; how long before that, our data does not say. At its peak, on October 10, 1983, the market valued it at $700 million. It left the market without a crash, last trading at $27.00. Our data does not say why it stopped trading. Many companies end this way when they are bought, merged or taken private.

1972-121988-11
Peak market value$700 millionOctober 10, 1983
Highest split-adjusted share price$27.38November 7, 1988
Last share price$27.00November 8, 1988
From its split-adjusted high to the end-1.4%
Return over the days in our data+126.9%with dividends, before the last trade
Worst single day-24.4%December 11, 1973

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 1972.

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Also gone in 1988: Unknown