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$1,000 in Bankamerica Corp-Old in 1987

$1,000 put into Bankamerica Corp-Old (BAC.Z.) on January 2, 1987, its first trading day of 1987 in our data, was worth $10,729 on September 30, 1998, its last trading day, with dividends counted. Over the same days to September 30, 1998, $1,000 in the whole US stock market became $5,113.

Bankamerica Corp-Old no longer trades. Its last trading day was September 30, 1998; 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

Bankamerica Corp-Old in: 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

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.