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Wellpoint

WLP · Insurance · NYSE · in our data January 28, 1993 to May 20, 1996 (3.3 years)

The first trading day in our data for Wellpoint is January 28, 1993 (its first day in our records, which may be later than its listing and is not its founding). At its peak, on March 30, 1995, the market valued it at $715 million. It left the market without a crash, last trading at $26.12. Our data does not say why it stopped trading. Many companies end this way when they are bought, merged or taken private.

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 1993.

Also gone in 1996: Insurance

• Ushc peaked at $7.8 billion
• Geico Corp peaked at $4.8 billion
• American Re Corp peaked at $3.1 billion
• Kemper Corp peaked at $2.8 billion
• First Colony Corp peaked at $1.8 billion
• Bankers Life Holding Corp peaked at $1.5 billion