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Warner Communications

WCI · Electronics · NYSE · in our data January 2, 1968 to January 9, 1990 (22 years)

Our price history begins on January 2, 1968, and Warner Communications was already trading then; how long before that, our data does not say. At its peak, on August 15, 1989, the market valued it at $11.3 billion. It left the market without a crash, last trading at $62.38. Our data does not say why it stopped trading. Many companies end this way when they are bought, merged or taken private.

1968-011990-01
Peak market value$11.3 billionAugust 15, 1989
Highest split-adjusted share price$67.70August 15, 1989
Last share price$62.38January 9, 1990
From its split-adjusted high to the end-7.9%
Return over the days in our data+2198.6%with dividends, before the last trade
Worst single day-34.8%October 19, 1987

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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