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Eastern Enterprises

EFU · Utilities · NYSE · in our data January 2, 1968 to November 8, 2000 (32.9 years)

Our price history begins on January 2, 1968, and Eastern Enterprises was already trading then; how long before that, our data does not say. At its peak, on November 8, 2000, the market valued it at $1.8 billion. It left the market without a crash, last trading at $64.62. The delisting record says: delisted or deregistered. Many companies end this way when they are bought, merged or taken private.

1968-012000-11
Peak market value$1.8 billionNovember 8, 2000
Highest split-adjusted share price$64.62November 8, 2000
Last share price$64.62November 8, 2000
From its split-adjusted high to the end0.0%
Return over the days in our data+1565.3%with dividends, before the last trade
Worst single day-14.0%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 1968.

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Also gone in 2000: Utilities