What if I had invested $1,000 in Pharmacia in 2000?

$1,000 in Pharmacia in 2000

$1,000 put into Pharmacia (PNU) on January 3, 2000, its first trading day of 2000 in our data, was worth $1,365 on March 31, 2000, its last trading day, with dividends counted. Over the same days to March 31, 2000, $1,000 in the whole US stock market became $1,047.

$1,000 became$1,365by March 31, 2000

Total return+36.5%dividends counted

The whole US market$1,047same days to March 31, 2000, dividends counted

The S&P 500 index$1,030price only, no dividends

Pharmacia no longer trades. Its last trading day was March 31, 2000; 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 3, 2000, 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

Pharmacia in: 1995 · 1996 · 1997 · 1998 · 1999

Also in 2000

Nvidia · $1,000 became $2,521,045
Apple Inc. · $1,000 became $399,773
Microsoft · $1,000 became $13,928
Amazon · $1,000 became $55,779
Micron Technology · $1,000 became $28,843
Lilly (Eli) · $1,000 became $35,063
Walmart · $1,000 became $7,696
Jpmorgan Chase & Co · $1,000 became $14,302

Ask the Lab what the market did next

History, not advice. How these numbers are made.