What if I had invested? › Enron

$1,000 in Enron in 1981

$1,000 put into Enron (ENE) on January 2, 1981, its first trading day of 1981 in our data, was worth $267 on January 11, 2002, its last trading day, with dividends counted. Over the same days to January 11, 2002, $1,000 in the whole US stock market became $14,301.

Enron no longer trades. Its last trading day was January 11, 2002; 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 2, 1981, 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

Enron in: 1968 · 1969 · 1970 · 1971 · 1972 · 1973 · 1974 · 1975 · 1976 · 1977 · 1978 · 1979 · 1980 · 1982 · 1983 · 1984 · 1985 · 1986 · 1987 · 1988 · 1989 · 1990 · 1991 · 1992 · 1993 · 1994 · 1995 · 1996 · 1997 · 1998 · 1999 · 2000 · 2001 · 2002

Also in 1981

• Apple Inc. · $1,000 became $2,832,125
• Lilly (Eli) · $1,000 became $1,052,207
• Walmart · $1,000 became $2,310,989
• Jpmorgan Chase & Co · $1,000 became $315,557
• Advanced Micro Devices · $1,000 became $104,645
• ExxonMobil · $1,000 became $194,286
• Johnson & Johnson · $1,000 became $368,485
• Intel · $1,000 became $521,177

History, not advice. How these numbers are made.