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$1,000 in Burlington Resources in 1988

$1,000 put into Burlington Resources (BR) on July 8, 1988, its first trading day of 1988 in our data, was worth $10,657 on March 31, 2006, its last trading day, with dividends counted. Over the same days to March 31, 2006, $1,000 in the whole US stock market became $7,019.

Burlington Resources no longer trades. Its last trading day was March 31, 2006; 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 July 8, 1988, 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 Resources in: 1989 · 1990 · 1991 · 1992 · 1993 · 1994 · 1995 · 1996 · 1997 · 1998 · 1999 · 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006

Also in 1988

• Apple Inc. · $1,000 became $1,090,115
• Microsoft · $1,000 became $2,087,305
• Micron Technology · $1,000 became $769,355
• Lilly (Eli) · $1,000 became $317,767
• Walmart · $1,000 became $161,750
• Jpmorgan Chase & Co · $1,000 became $159,219
• Advanced Micro Devices · $1,000 became $115,725
• Oracle Corporation · $1,000 became $947,910

History, not advice. How these numbers are made.