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$1,000 in Burlington Northern Santa Fe in 1999

$1,000 put into Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNI) on January 4, 1999, its first trading day of 1999 in our data, was worth $3,601 on February 12, 2010, its last trading day, with dividends counted. Over the same days to February 12, 2010, $1,000 in the whole US stock market became $1,180.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe no longer trades. Its last trading day was February 12, 2010; 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 4, 1999, 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

Burlington Northern Santa Fe in: 1970 · 1971 · 1972 · 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 · 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009 · 2010

Also in 1999

• Nvidia · $1,000 became $5,994,418
• Apple Inc. · $1,000 became $1,084,834
• Microsoft · $1,000 became $23,028
• Amazon · $1,000 became $84,273
• Micron Technology · $1,000 became $43,860
• Lilly (Eli) · $1,000 became $27,064
• Walmart · $1,000 became $12,818
• Jpmorgan Chase & Co · $1,000 became $14,748

History, not advice. How these numbers are made.