What if I had invested? › Union Pacific Corporation
$1,000 in Union Pacific Corporation in 1984
$1,000 put into Union Pacific Corporation (UNP) on January 3, 1984, its first trading day of 1984 in our data, was worth $166,942 on September 23, 2026, with dividends counted to the end of 2024. Over the same days to July 31, 2026, $1,000 in the whole US stock market became $112,072.
Bought at the close on January 3, 1984, 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 1984
- Apple Inc. · $1,000 became $3,826,816
- Micron Technology · $1,000 became $786,312
- Lilly (Eli) · $1,000 became $976,781
- Walmart · $1,000 became $468,096
- Jpmorgan Chase & Co · $1,000 became $163,818
- Advanced Micro Devices · $1,000 became $36,432
- ExxonMobil · $1,000 became $162,446
- Johnson & Johnson · $1,000 became $278,934
History, not advice. How these numbers are made.