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Bethlehem Steel

BS · Steel & Metals · NYSE · in our data January 2, 1968 to June 11, 2002 (34.4 years)

Our price history begins on January 2, 1968, and Bethlehem Steel was already trading then; how long before that, our data does not say. At its peak, on August 2, 1994, the market valued it at $2.6 billion. It ended in a collapse: the last trade was $0.25, -99.1% from its split-adjusted high. The delisting record says: likely failure.

1968-012002-06
Peak market value$2.6 billionAugust 2, 1994
Highest split-adjusted share price$27.66March 10, 1976
Last share price$0.25June 11, 2002
From its split-adjusted high to the end-99.1%
Return over the days in our data-97.8%with dividends, before the last trade
Worst single day-81.7%October 16, 2001

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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