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Louisiana Land & Exploration

LLX. · Oil & Gas · NYSE · in our data January 2, 1968 to October 22, 1997 (29.8 years)

Our price history begins on January 2, 1968, and Louisiana Land & Exploration was already trading then; how long before that, our data does not say. At its peak, on October 7, 1997, the market valued it at $2.8 billion. It left the market without a crash, last trading at $79.00. The delisting record says: delisted or deregistered. Many companies end this way when they are bought, merged or taken private.

1968-011997-10
Peak market value$2.8 billionOctober 7, 1997
Highest split-adjusted share price$81.37October 7, 1997
Last share price$79.00October 22, 1997
From its split-adjusted high to the end-2.9%
Return over the days in our data+765.3%with dividends, before the last trade
Worst single day-14.8%November 11, 1980

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 1997: Oil & Gas