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$1,000 in Wells Fargo & Co -old in 1994

$1,000 put into Wells Fargo & Co -old (WFC.Z) on January 3, 1994, its first trading day of 1994 in our data, was worth $3,220 on November 2, 1998, its last trading day, with dividends counted. Over the same days to November 2, 1998, $1,000 in the whole US stock market became $2,409.

Wells Fargo & Co -old no longer trades. Its last trading day was November 2, 1998; the delisting record says: delisted or deregistered. 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, 1994, 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.

Another stock, another year

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Also in 1994

• Apple Inc. · $1,000 became $1,535,937
• Microsoft · $1,000 became $324,188
• Micron Technology · $1,000 became $243,946
• Lilly (Eli) · $1,000 became $177,947
• Walmart · $1,000 became $42,023
• Jpmorgan Chase & Co · $1,000 became $61,564
• Advanced Micro Devices · $1,000 became $68,788
• Oracle Corporation · $1,000 became $126,805

History, not advice. How these numbers are made.