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Boatmen's Bancshares

BOAT. · Banks · NASDAQ · in our data December 14, 1972 to January 6, 1997 (24.1 years)

Our price history begins on December 14, 1972, and Boatmen's Bancshares was already trading then; how long before that, our data does not say. At its peak, on November 25, 1996, the market valued it at $10.4 billion. It left the market without a crash, last trading at $64.25. The delisting record says: delisted or deregistered. Many companies end this way when they are bought, merged or taken private.

1972-121997-01

Peak market value$10.4 billionNovember 25, 1996

Highest split-adjusted share price$67.14November 25, 1996

Last share price$64.25January 6, 1997

From its split-adjusted high to the end-4.3%

Return over the days in our data+4375.6%with dividends, before the last trade

Worst single day-10.6%October 20, 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 1972. How these numbers are made · Report a data issue.

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