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Beyond.com Corp

BYNDQ · Retail · NASDAQ · in our data June 17, 1998 to January 24, 2002 (3.6 years)

The first trading day in our data for Beyond.com Corp is June 17, 1998 (its first day in our records, which may be later than its listing and is not its founding). At its peak, on January 11, 1999, the market valued it at $1.1 billion. It ended in a collapse: the last trade was $0.79, -99.9% from its split-adjusted high. The delisting record says: likely failure.

1998-062002-01
Peak market value$1.1 billionJanuary 11, 1999
Highest split-adjusted share price$578.09January 11, 1999
Last share price$0.79January 24, 2002
From its split-adjusted high to the end-99.9%
Return over the days in our data-99.6%with dividends, before the last trade
Worst single day-28.7%July 2, 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 1998.

Could you have seen it coming? Play Dot-com

Also gone in 2002: Retail