A Look at Dow Stocks on 10/19/87

As a reference post and for a little perspective, we highlight the performance of the current Dow stocks (not the 30 in the index at the time) on Black Monday, 10/19/1987.  As shown, MSFT fell the most at -30.13%, followed by HON (-29.39%) and DIS (-29.09%).  The stock that opened down the most was WMT at -24.14%, but it also went up the most from the open to the close at 21.02%.  WMT was also the only current Dow 30 stock that didn't fall more than 10%.  We also show six charts to highlight the trading action on and around the '87 crash.