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what happened to home depot's stock in 1988?
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so a major problem with looking at historical stock data on these graphs is that they set the stock price based off of current market volumn. if i was to say look at majesco entertainment (cool) in june of 2016. it would say that the stock as trading between $5-6. in reality it was between .50-$1.  but in august there was a 6:1 reverse split. so june's value based on todays current share count would be about $5-6 per one share. 1988 for home depot must have been a really bad year for them, and because of all the splits they've had over the years already screws that estimate of what one share is worth. there's a lot of variance in 1988, but you have to be looking at only 1988. 87 and 89 really screws the the chart's scale.
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