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Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P)

GAP · Grocery · NYSE · in our data January 2, 1968 to December 10, 2010 (42.9 years)

Our price history begins on January 2, 1968, and Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P) was already trading then; how long before that, our data does not say. At its peak, on August 7, 1989, the market valued it at $2.5 billion. It ended in a collapse: the last trade was $0.93, -97.8% from its split-adjusted high. The delisting record says: likely failure.

1968-012010-12
Peak market value$2.5 billionAugust 7, 1989
Highest split-adjusted share price$41.99December 4, 1989
Last share price$0.93December 10, 2010
From its split-adjusted high to the end-97.8%
Return over the days in our data-92.4%with dividends, before the last trade
Worst single day-67.1%December 10, 2010

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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