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Stone & Webster Inc

SWBIQ · Engineering & Consulting · NYSE · in our data January 2, 1968 to May 8, 2000 (32.3 years)

Our price history begins on January 2, 1968, and Stone & Webster Inc was already trading then; how long before that, our data does not say. At its peak, on September 30, 1997, the market valued it at $702 million. It ended in a collapse: the last trade was $3.38, -93.6% from its split-adjusted high. The delisting record says: likely failure.

1968-012000-05
Peak market value$702 millionSeptember 30, 1997
Highest split-adjusted share price$52.90September 30, 1997
Last share price$3.38May 8, 2000
From its split-adjusted high to the end-93.6%
Return over the days in our data+18.8%with dividends, before the last trade
Worst single day-52.6%May 1, 2000

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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