How much would these stocks be worth?

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So, I was cleaning out a some old boxes and such last night, and I found a couple stocks that my dad bought me like 20 years ago for the San Diego Electric Company.  I have no intentions on doing anything with them, I think they just have more sentimental value than anything.  But how would I go about finding how much they are actually worth?

♥PirplePashn♥ · Accepted Answer

You can search one of these stock sites and plug in the name San Diego Electric (my quick search came up with San Diego Gas & Electric) there it will give you all the current stock information.

Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance
Google Finance: Stocks Screener; http://www.google.com/finance/stockscreener#c0=MarketCap&c1=PE&c2=DividendYield&c3=Price52WeekPercChange®ion=us§or=AllSectors&sort=&sortOrder=

Fidelity Investments: http://eresearch.fidelity.com/eresearch/goto/evaluate/snapshot.jhtml?symbols=SDO/PC

MSN: http://moneycentral.msn.com/home.asp (enter name in box under tab labeled home.)

Yahoo Finance: http://finance.yahoo.com/

AOL: http://money.aol.com/

Hope this helps a little.

Edit:

Here are a few articles to help determine what it is worth, ill let you read as i am not that well versed on stocks.

http://www.ehow.com/how_5088431_research-old-stock-certificates-value.html?ref=fuel&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=ssp&utm_campaign=yssp_art

http://stocksearchintl.com/stocksearch.html

http://www.oldcompany.com/

Anonymous · Answer

You are going to have to do a little digging to find out.

Are the stock certificated for San Diego Gas & Electric Company?  If so, then you are at least two mergers behind and it would be in your best interest to "do something" now.  

My computer tells me that SDGEC was merged into a holding company in 1996 (Enova Corporation) and that was merged into Sempra Energy in 1998.  You should contact the transfer agent at Sempra about getting your old stock certs converted into Sempra stock.

I am making an assumption that your stock is a part of the merger and that it is still convertible.  

In theory mergers involving solvent companies are "always" convertible into the new, valid shares so long as the successor company(s) remain solvent.  As a practical matter, 20 years might be pushing it...depending upon the terms of the merger.  At a minimum, if this is your stock,  you are missing out on a nice dividend ("interest payment") every year.

? · Answer

go to a stock website... enter the name of the company... and check their value.

you also have to know the value they have been bought for 20 years ago.

then you can compare the 2 and check if they have increased or not.

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