What if I had invested? › Suntrust Banks Inc
$1,000 in Suntrust Banks Inc in 1998
$1,000 put into Suntrust Banks Inc (STI) on January 2, 1998, its first trading day of 1998 in our data, was worth $1,666 on December 6, 2019, its last trading day, with dividends counted. Over the same days to December 6, 2019, $1,000 in the whole US stock market became $5,232.
Suntrust Banks Inc no longer trades. Its last trading day was December 6, 2019; 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, 1998, 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 1998
- Apple Inc. · $1,000 became $2,753,814
- Microsoft · $1,000 became $49,525
- Amazon · $1,000 became $1,005,433
- Micron Technology · $1,000 became $78,575
- Lilly (Eli) · $1,000 became $34,142
- Walmart · $1,000 became $26,381
- Jpmorgan Chase & Co · $1,000 became $19,612
- Advanced Micro Devices · $1,000 became $63,651
History, not advice. How these numbers are made.