Hindsight Market

The Graveyard › 1999

Just for Feet Inc

FEETQ · Apparel Stores · NASDAQ · in our data March 9, 1994 to November 1, 1999 (5.6 years)

The first trading day in our data for Just for Feet Inc is March 9, 1994 (its first day in our records, which may be later than its listing and is not its founding). At its peak, on September 16, 1996, the market valued it at $1.0 billion. It ended in a collapse: the last trade was $1.25, -96.7% from its split-adjusted high. The delisting record says: merged or acquired.

1994-031999-11
Peak market value$1.0 billionSeptember 16, 1996
Highest split-adjusted share price$37.75May 23, 1996
Last share price$1.25November 1, 1999
From its split-adjusted high to the end-96.7%
Return over the days in our data-72.3%with dividends, before the last trade
Worst single day-36.6%September 22, 1999

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 1994.

Could you have seen it coming? Play Dot-com

Also gone in 1999: Apparel Stores