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Digital Equipment Corporation

DEC · Machinery & Computers · NYSE · in our data January 2, 1968 to June 11, 1998 (30.4 years)

Our price history begins on January 2, 1968, and Digital Equipment Corporation was already trading then; how long before that, our data does not say. At its peak, on October 5, 1987, the market valued it at $25.3 billion. By the end it had fallen hard: the last trade was $56.69, -71.3% from its split-adjusted high. The delisting record says: delisted or deregistered.

1968-011998-06
Peak market value$25.3 billionOctober 5, 1987
Highest split-adjusted share price$197.75October 5, 1987
Last share price$56.69June 11, 1998
From its split-adjusted high to the end-71.3%
Return over the days in our data+607.4%with dividends, before the last trade
Worst single day-24.5%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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