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$1,000 in Qwest Communication Intl-Old in 1997

$1,000 put into Qwest Communication Intl-Old (Q) on June 24, 1997, its first trading day of 1997 in our data, was worth $1,237 on March 31, 2011, its last trading day, with dividends counted. Over the same days to March 31, 2011, $1,000 in the whole US stock market became $2,077.

Qwest Communication Intl-Old no longer trades. Its last trading day was March 31, 2011; 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 June 24, 1997, 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

Qwest Communication Intl-Old in: 1998 · 1999 · 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009 · 2010 · 2011

Also in 1997

• Apple Inc. · $1,000 became $2,130,920
• Microsoft · $1,000 became $79,558
• Amazon · $1,000 became $2,545,676
• Micron Technology · $1,000 became $73,623
• Lilly (Eli) · $1,000 became $65,873
• Walmart · $1,000 became $45,519
• Jpmorgan Chase & Co · $1,000 became $25,244
• Advanced Micro Devices · $1,000 became $45,318

History, not advice. How these numbers are made.