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What Happened
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On this day 51 years ago, Electronic Data Systems went public.
Where The Market Was
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 915.65 and the S&P 500 traded at 100.52.
What Else Was Going On In The World
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In 1968, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce founded Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC). The average American earned $7,850 per year.
Electronic Data Systems IPO
H. Ross Perot founded Electronic Data Systems in Plano, Texas in 1962. The company was a pioneer in facilities management and early IT services. In 1967, Morton H. Meyerson proposed a business model that would later become known as “outsourcing,” which led to major business growth for EDS.
In September 1968, EDS went public at a price of $16.50 per share, which was about 118 times its EPS at the time. The modest IPO sold roughly 650,000 shares of stock, half of which belonged to Perot, and raised a total of $10 million. By early 1970, EDS shares had topped $160.
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Perot leveraged the success of EDS to amass a net worth of $4.1 billion. Younger Americans may remember Perot best from his 1992 presidential campaign, in which he earned 18.9% of the popular vote as an independent candidate.
Today, EDS is a subsidiary of DXC Technology Co (NYSE:DXC).
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