I need the yearend closing price for Chrysler stock for each year from
1970 through 2000 inclusive. (Was C, now is DCX). Also were there any
splits or reverse-splits duiring that period?

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Request for Question Clarification by juggler-ga on 06 Oct 2005 20:13 PDT

Hi,
I could do this research, but it'd be a fairly big project that would
take several hours. The $10 price here is too low for the amount of
effort involved. You may wish to review Google Answers' pricing
guidelines.
http://answers.google.com/answers/pricing.html

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Clarification of Question by macmavin-ga on 07 Oct 2005 18:31 PDT

Clarification: What I need this for is I sold a lot of DCX stock in
2000. I need to figure out a cost basis for this stock which was
bought (through the stock purchase plan) on a regular basis over time
between 1970 and 2000. I figure if I average the year-end prices over
that period, and divide by the number of years, I will get a cost
basis which the IRS will accept.

Instead of paying somebody, just head over to http://finance.yahoo.com
and use their historical prices link. It provides the same information
and can even be specified to return data for year end prices.

-Alex

Alex --

Yahoo!Finance and BigCharts.com drop unlisted securities from their
databases.  And even DCX only goes back to 1998.  My guess is that
Macmavin knew that too.

A research without access to something like the Center for Research on
Security Prices (CRSP) can do this manually by going to old NY Times
or Wall Street Journal issues -- and we often do.  But as Juggler
noted, that's a longer effort, probably taking about 5 minutes per
year or 2 1/2 hours.  Adding stock split information probably takes
the task to 3 hours.

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA