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$1,000 in Viacom Inc New in 2006
$1,000 put into Viacom Inc New (VIAB) on January 3, 2006, its first trading day of 2006 in our data, was worth $725 on December 4, 2019, its last trading day, with dividends counted. Over the same days to December 4, 2019, $1,000 in the whole US stock market became $3,388.
Viacom Inc New no longer trades. Its last trading day was December 4, 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 3, 2006, 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 2006
- Nvidia · $1,000 became $771,956
- Apple Inc. · $1,000 became $149,662
- Microsoft · $1,000 became $26,549
- Amazon · $1,000 became $104,776
- Alphabet Inc. (Class A) · $1,000 became $31,112
- Alphabet Inc. - Class C Capital Stock · $1,000 became $30,865
- Micron Technology · $1,000 became $81,061
- Lilly (Eli) · $1,000 became $35,614
History, not advice. How these numbers are made.