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$1,000 in Qwest Communication Intl Inc in 1996

$1,000 put into Qwest Communication Intl Inc (USW) on January 2, 1996, its first trading day of 1996 in our data, was worth $3,073 on June 30, 2000, its last trading day, with dividends counted. Over the same days to June 30, 2000, $1,000 in the whole US stock market became $2,444.

Qwest Communication Intl Inc no longer trades. Its last trading day was June 30, 2000; the delisting record says: unknown. 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, 1996, 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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Qwest Communication Intl Inc in: 1984 · 1985 · 1986 · 1987 · 1988 · 1989 · 1990 · 1991 · 1992 · 1993 · 1994 · 1995 · 1997 · 1998 · 1999 · 2000

Also in 1996

• Apple Inc. · $1,000 became $1,392,984
• Microsoft · $1,000 became $144,711
• Micron Technology · $1,000 became $52,853
• Lilly (Eli) · $1,000 became $88,141
• Walmart · $1,000 became $45,408
• Jpmorgan Chase & Co · $1,000 became $39,240
• Advanced Micro Devices · $1,000 became $71,261
• Oracle Corporation · $1,000 became $55,706

History, not advice. How these numbers are made.