What if I had invested? › Sun Microsystems
$1,000 in Sun Microsystems in 1990
$1,000 put into Sun Microsystems (JAVA) on January 2, 1990, its first trading day of 1990 in our data, was worth $4,218 on January 26, 2010, its last trading day, with dividends counted. Over the same days to January 26, 2010, $1,000 in the whole US stock market became $4,828.
Sun Microsystems no longer trades. Its last trading day was January 26, 2010; the delisting record says: delisted or deregistered. 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, 1990, 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
Sun Microsystems in: 1986 · 1987 · 1988 · 1989 · 1991 · 1992 · 1993 · 1994 · 1995 · 1996 · 1997 · 1998 · 1999 · 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009 · 2010
Also in 1990
- Apple Inc. · $1,000 became $1,285,894
- Microsoft · $1,000 became $1,317,054
- Micron Technology · $1,000 became $1,115,557
- Lilly (Eli) · $1,000 became $174,801
- Walmart · $1,000 became $92,518
- Jpmorgan Chase & Co · $1,000 became $102,815
- Advanced Micro Devices · $1,000 became $149,041
- Oracle Corporation · $1,000 became $299,601
History, not advice. How these numbers are made.