JCPenney
JCP · Department Stores · NYSE · in our data January 2, 1968 to May 18, 2020 (52.4 years)
Our price history begins on January 2, 1968, and JCPenney was already trading then; how long before that, our data does not say. At its peak, on June 19, 1998, the market valued it at $19.5 billion. It ended in a collapse: the last trade was $0.18, -99.8% from its split-adjusted high. The delisting record says: dropped by the exchange (failure).
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.
The last numbers it filed
Its last report before the end was annual report (10-K) for the period to February 1, 2020, filed with the SEC on March 20, 2020, 59 days before its last trade. On February 1, 2020 it reported:
For the year to February 1, 2020, revenue was $10.7 billion and it lost $268 million.
Source: SEC EDGAR, the filing. Only what was filed on or before the last trade, in US dollars as reported.
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