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Schering-Plough

SGP · Chemicals & Drugs · NYSE · in our data January 2, 1968 to November 3, 2009 (41.8 years)

Our price history begins on January 2, 1968, and Schering-Plough was already trading then; how long before that, our data does not say. At its peak, on April 12, 1999, the market valued it at $89.4 billion. It left the market without a crash, last trading at $28.15. Our data does not say why it stopped trading. Many companies end this way when they are bought, merged or taken private.

1968-012009-11
Peak market value$89.4 billionApril 12, 1999
Highest split-adjusted share price$51.74April 12, 1999
Last share price$28.15November 3, 2009
From its split-adjusted high to the end-45.6%
Return over the days in our data+13434.4%with dividends, before the last trade
Worst single day-26.0%March 31, 2008

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 2009: Chemicals & Drugs