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Meade Instruments Corp

MEAD · Instruments & Medical Devices · NASDAQ · in our data April 9, 1997 to September 13, 2013 (16.4 years)

The first trading day in our data for Meade Instruments Corp is April 9, 1997 (its first day in our records, which may be later than its listing and is not its founding). At its peak, on March 30, 2000, the market valued it at $636 million. It ended in a collapse: the last trade was $4.50, -99.4% from its split-adjusted high. The delisting record says: merged or acquired.

1997-042013-09
Peak market value$636 millionMarch 30, 2000
Highest split-adjusted share price$785.00March 30, 2000
Last share price$4.50September 13, 2013
From its split-adjusted high to the end-99.4%
Return over the days in our data-93.9%with dividends, before the last trade
Worst single day-34.7%January 16, 2009

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 1997.

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Also gone in 2013: Instruments & Medical Devices