What if I had invested? › Forest Labs Inc
$1,000 in Forest Labs Inc in 1970
$1,000 put into Forest Labs Inc (FRX) on January 2, 1970, its first trading day of 1970 in our data, was worth $892,157 on June 30, 2014, its last trading day, with dividends counted. Over the same days to June 30, 2014, $1,000 in the whole US stock market became $82,547.
Forest Labs Inc no longer trades. Its last trading day was June 30, 2014; 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, 1970, 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
Forest Labs Inc in: 1968 · 1969 · 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 · 1999 · 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009 · 2010
Also in 1970
- Lilly (Eli) · $1,000 became $1,886,631
- Jpmorgan Chase & Co · $1,000 became $490,287
- ExxonMobil · $1,000 became $996,065
- Johnson & Johnson · $1,000 became $729,310
- GE Aerospace · $1,000 became $409,518
- Caterpillar Inc. · $1,000 became $946,585
- Procter & Gamble · $1,000 became $397,695
- Coca-Cola Company (The) · $1,000 became $494,893
History, not advice. How these numbers are made.