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January 3, 2000: Yahoo stocks close at an all-time high of $475.00 (pre-split price) a share. This price propelled them to the most valuable company in the world at the time. The day before, it hit an intra-day high of $500.13 (pre-split price). [5]
On November 20, 2008, almost 10 months after Microsoft's initial offer of $33 per share, Yahoo!'s stock (YHOO) dropped to a 52-week low, trading at only $8.94 per share. [70] On November 30, 2008, Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo!'s search business for $20 billion. [71] On July 29, 2009, a 10-year deal was announced giving Microsoft full access ...
In 1998, Yahoo replaced AltaVista as the crawler-based search engine underlying the Directory with Inktomi. [29] Yahoo's two biggest acquisitions were made in 1999: Geocities for $3.6 billion [30] and Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion. [31] Its stock price skyrocketed during the dot-com bubble, closing at an all-time high of $118.75/share on ...
December 6, 2021 at 9:30 AM. Yahoo Finance's Company of the Year: Microsoft. /. Loaded 0%. Microsoft ( MSFT) has had a stunning year. After nearly 50 years in business, the tech giant crashed ...
In 1986, Microsoft went public at $21 per share, according to NASDAQ. A year later, Gates popped up on the billionaire list, the youngest ever to hold the status at the time, at 31 years old.
Today, each IPO share would be worth 288 shares of stock. Adjusted for subsequent splits, Microsoft’s IPO price based on today’s share count was only about 7.2 cents per share.
As of April 2008, the company's largest acquisition is the purchase of Broadcast.com, an Internet radio company, for $5.7 billion, making Broadcast.com co-founder Mark Cuban a billionaire. Most of the companies acquired by Yahoo are based in the United States; 78 of the companies are from the United States, and 15 are based in a foreign country.
Nasdaq-100. The Nasdaq-100 ( ^NDX[ 2]) is a stock market index made up of equity securities issued by 100 of the largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. It is a modified capitalization-weighted index. The stocks' weights in the index are based on their market capitalizations, with certain rules capping the influence ...