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Vons

VON · Grocery · NYSE · in our data January 2, 1968 to April 8, 1997 (29.3 years)

Our price history begins on January 2, 1968, and Vons was already trading then; how long before that, our data does not say. At its peak, on March 10, 1997, the market valued it at $3.2 billion. By the end it had fallen hard: the last trade was $67.88, -74.8% from its split-adjusted high. The delisting record says: delisted or deregistered.

1968-011997-04
Peak market value$3.2 billionMarch 10, 1997
Highest split-adjusted share price$268.89December 26, 1968
Last share price$67.88April 8, 1997
From its split-adjusted high to the end-74.8%
Return over the days in our data-70.7%with dividends, before the last trade
Worst single day-60.0%November 7, 1978

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: Grocery