1998 stock price chart for Amazon.Com (AMZN)
1998 was the year of the Internet stock, and few did better than the online book retailing pioneer Amazon.Com (http://www.amazon.com). It experienced a yearly low of 24, a high of 361, and closed at 321. That resulted in a market capitalization of about 16.9 billion dollars. For each quarter 1/1/97 – 9/30/98, Amazon has failed to make a profit.
The chart above was from The Wall Street Journal’s Interactive Edition at http://interactive.wsj.com/. You will, however, need to be a subscriber to view the same chart online. But there are many other places on the WWW providing the same information for free, e.g., Bloomberg at http://www.bloomberg.com/.