What if I had invested? › American General Corporation
$1,000 in American General Corporation in 1972
$1,000 put into American General Corporation (AGC) on January 3, 1972, its first trading day of 1972 in our data, was worth $89,851 on August 28, 2001, its last trading day, with dividends counted. Over the same days to August 28, 2001, $1,000 in the whole US stock market became $29,630.
American General Corporation no longer trades. Its last trading day was August 28, 2001; the delisting record says: merged or acquired. The figure above is what the shares were worth at the last trade. What holders received after that (a merger payout, or nothing in a bankruptcy) is not in our price data.
Bought at the close on January 3, 1972, dividends put back in, no costs and no tax. Dividends are counted to the end of 2024; from 2025 on our prices are adjusted for splits only, so dividends paid since then are left out. The stock figure counts dividends; the S&P 500 index figure does not, so compare the stock with the whole-market figure. The market figure is the Fama-French US market return (Kenneth R. French data library), which runs to July 31, 2026. Our stock prices run to September 23, 2026.
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American General Corporation in: 1969 · 1970 · 1971 · 1973 · 1974 · 1975 · 1976 · 1977 · 1978 · 1979 · 1980 · 1981 · 1982 · 1983 · 1984 · 1985 · 1986 · 1987 · 1988 · 1989 · 1990 · 1991 · 1992 · 1993 · 1994 · 1995 · 1996 · 1997 · 1998 · 1999 · 2000 · 2001
Also in 1972
- Lilly (Eli) · $1,000 became $1,439,009
- Walmart · $1,000 became $9,260,221
- Jpmorgan Chase & Co · $1,000 became $474,277
- Advanced Micro Devices · $1,000 became $1,383,250
- ExxonMobil · $1,000 became $752,192
- Johnson & Johnson · $1,000 became $431,156
- Intel · $1,000 became $5,237,973
- GE Aerospace · $1,000 became $235,208
History, not advice. How these numbers are made.