What if I had invested? › Palm, Inc.
$1,000 in Palm, Inc. in 2010
$1,000 put into Palm, Inc. (PALM) on January 4, 2010, its first trading day of 2010 in our data, was worth $551 on June 30, 2010, its last trading day, with dividends counted. Over the same days to June 30, 2010, $1,000 in the whole US stock market became $927.
Palm, Inc. no longer trades. Its last trading day was June 30, 2010; 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 4, 2010, 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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Palm, Inc. in: 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009
Also in 2010
- Nvidia · $1,000 became $531,893
- Apple Inc. · $1,000 became $52,275
- Microsoft · $1,000 became $21,483
- Amazon · $1,000 became $37,231
- Alphabet Inc. (Class A) · $1,000 became $21,605
- Avago Technologies · $1,000 became $261,078
- Alphabet Inc. - Class C Capital Stock · $1,000 became $21,433
- Tesla, Inc. · $1,000 became $238,664
History, not advice. How these numbers are made.