What if I had invested? › Phelps Dodge
$1,000 in Phelps Dodge in 1996
$1,000 put into Phelps Dodge (PD) on January 2, 1996, its first trading day of 1996 in our data, was worth $5,453 on March 19, 2007, its last trading day, with dividends counted. Over the same days to March 19, 2007, $1,000 in the whole US stock market became $2,755.
Phelps Dodge no longer trades. Its last trading day was March 19, 2007; 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, 1996, 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 1996
- Apple Inc. · $1,000 became $1,392,984
- Microsoft · $1,000 became $144,711
- Micron Technology · $1,000 became $52,853
- Lilly (Eli) · $1,000 became $88,141
- Walmart · $1,000 became $45,408
- Jpmorgan Chase & Co · $1,000 became $39,240
- Advanced Micro Devices · $1,000 became $71,261
- Oracle Corporation · $1,000 became $55,706
History, not advice. How these numbers are made.