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Mercantile Stores

MST. · Department Stores · NYSE · in our data January 2, 1968 to August 18, 1998 (30.6 years)

Our price history begins on January 2, 1968, and Mercantile Stores was already trading then; how long before that, our data does not say. At its peak, on August 12, 1998, the market valued it at $2.9 billion. It left the market when it was bought or merged, last trading at $79.94, -0.1% from its split-adjusted high. Holders got whatever the deal paid, which is not in our price data.

1968-011998-08
Peak market value$2.9 billionAugust 12, 1998
Highest split-adjusted share price$80.00August 12, 1998
Last share price$79.94August 18, 1998
From its split-adjusted high to the end-0.1%
Return over the days in our data+3751.3%with dividends, before the last trade
Worst single day-29.7%September 26, 1994

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: Department Stores