What if I had invested? › Atlantic Richfield (ARCO)

$1,000 in Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) in 1987

$1,000 put into Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) (ARC) on January 2, 1987, its first trading day of 1987 in our data, was worth $4,631 on April 17, 2000, its last trading day, with dividends counted. Over the same days to April 17, 2000, $1,000 in the whole US stock market became $7,263.

Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) no longer trades. Its last trading day was April 17, 2000; the delisting record says: unknown. 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 2, 1987, 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.

Another stock, another year

Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) in: 1968 · 1969 · 1970 · 1971 · 1972 · 1973 · 1974 · 1975 · 1976 · 1977 · 1978 · 1979 · 1980 · 1981 · 1982 · 1983 · 1984 · 1985 · 1986 · 1988 · 1989 · 1990 · 1991 · 1992 · 1993 · 1994 · 1995 · 1996 · 1997 · 1998 · 1999 · 2000

Also in 1987

• Apple Inc. · $1,000 became $2,399,077
• Microsoft · $1,000 became $4,895,841
• Micron Technology · $1,000 became $2,348,564
• Lilly (Eli) · $1,000 became $349,344
• Walmart · $1,000 became $189,324
• Jpmorgan Chase & Co · $1,000 became $92,096
• Advanced Micro Devices · $1,000 became $87,827
• Oracle Corporation · $1,000 became $2,786,645

History, not advice. How these numbers are made.