What if I had invested? › Tellabs Inc
$1,000 in Tellabs Inc in 1983
$1,000 put into Tellabs Inc (TLAB) on January 3, 1983, its first trading day of 1983 in our data, was worth $6,755 on December 3, 2013, its last trading day, with dividends counted. Over the same days to December 3, 2013, $1,000 in the whole US stock market became $27,386.
Tellabs Inc no longer trades. Its last trading day was December 3, 2013; 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, 1983, 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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Tellabs Inc in: 1980 · 1981 · 1982 · 1984 · 1985 · 1986 · 1987 · 1988 · 1989 · 1990 · 1991 · 1992 · 1993 · 1994 · 1995 · 1996 · 1997 · 1998 · 1999 · 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009 · 2010 · 2011 · 2012 · 2013
Also in 1983
- Apple Inc. · $1,000 became $3,440,770
- Lilly (Eli) · $1,000 became $1,057,758
- Walmart · $1,000 became $747,516
- Jpmorgan Chase & Co · $1,000 became $193,486
- Advanced Micro Devices · $1,000 became $100,374
- ExxonMobil · $1,000 became $224,264
- Johnson & Johnson · $1,000 became $235,793
- Intel · $1,000 became $566,651
History, not advice. How these numbers are made.