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Giant Food

GFS.A · Grocery · AMEX · in our data January 2, 1968 to October 30, 1998 (30.8 years)

Our price history begins on January 2, 1968, and Giant Food was already trading then; how long before that, our data does not say. At its peak, on October 26, 1998, the market valued it at $2.6 billion. It left the market when it was bought or merged, last trading at $43.44, -0.3% from its split-adjusted high. Holders got whatever the deal paid, which is not in our price data.

1968-011998-10
Peak market value$2.6 billionOctober 26, 1998
Highest split-adjusted share price$43.56October 26, 1998
Last share price$43.44October 30, 1998
From its split-adjusted high to the end-0.3%
Return over the days in our data+20263.6%with dividends, before the last trade
Worst single day-17.4%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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Also gone in 1998: Grocery