What if I had invested $1,000 in Kansas City Southern Common Stock in 1981?

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$1,000 in Kansas City Southern Common Stock in 1981

$1,000 put into Kansas City Southern Common Stock (KSU) on January 2, 1981, its first trading day of 1981 in our data, was worth $3,691,052 on December 13, 2021, its last trading day, with dividends counted. Over the same days to December 13, 2021, $1,000 in the whole US stock market became $94,636.

$1,000 became$3,691,052by December 13, 2021

Total return3,691 timesthe money put in, dividends counted

A year, on average+22.2%over 40.9 years

The whole US market$94,636same days to December 13, 2021, dividends counted

The S&P 500 index$34,245price only, no dividends

Kansas City Southern Common Stock no longer trades. Its last trading day was December 13, 2021; 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.

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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

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