What if I had invested? › Gen Motors Cp
$1,000 in Gen Motors Cp in 1976
$1,000 put into Gen Motors Cp (GM) on January 2, 1976, its first trading day of 1976 in our data, was worth $182 on June 1, 2009, its last trading day, with dividends counted. Over the same days to June 1, 2009, $1,000 in the whole US stock market became $31,992.
Gen Motors Cp no longer trades. Its last trading day was June 1, 2009; the delisting record says: likely failure. 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, 1976, 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
Gen Motors Cp in: 1968 · 1969 · 1970 · 1971 · 1972 · 1973 · 1974 · 1975 · 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
Also in 1976
- Lilly (Eli) · $1,000 became $1,540,800
- Walmart · $1,000 became $11,767,274
- Jpmorgan Chase & Co · $1,000 became $652,999
- Advanced Micro Devices · $1,000 became $1,196,340
- ExxonMobil · $1,000 became $489,555
- Johnson & Johnson · $1,000 became $455,897
- Intel · $1,000 became $1,620,878
- GE Aerospace · $1,000 became $282,228
History, not advice. How these numbers are made.