Retail · Bankruptcies and Survivors — The Retail Extinctions: Five Former S&P 500 Members That Went Bankrupt, Five That Grew
Retail Bankruptcies and Survivors — Five former S&P 500 retailers that filed for bankruptcy against five that survived and grew.
Every name on the left once sat in the S&P 500 and later filed for Chapter 11; every name on the right is still in the index and larger than it was. The sector's long-run return is the sum of both columns, and the winners' chart above shows only one of them.
What this page answers
5 retailers that had sat in the S&P 500 filed for bankruptcy protection between 2008-11-10 and 2023-04-23; 5 peers came through the same span and expanded. Each filing is sourced to a court document or a company disclosure. The survivors are listed beside them for the reason a chart of today's index members cannot show: the names that failed were removed from the index long ago.
Every name on the left once sat in the S&P 500 and later filed for Chapter 11; every name on the right is still in the index and larger than it was. The sector's long-run return is the sum of both columns, and the winners' chart above shows only one of them. The data is refreshed by the History of Market pipeline and published as a stable JSON endpoint for research, citation, and AI-agent use.
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Retail's extinction event — 5 bankruptcies beside 5 survivors
| Ticker | Company | Date | Resolution |
|---|---|---|---|
| CC | Circuit City Stores | 2008-11-10 | Chapter 11 (Nov 2008), liquidated 2009 |
| RSH | RadioShack | 2015-02-05 | Chapter 11 (Feb 2015) |
| SHLD | Sears Holdings | 2018-10-15 | Chapter 11 (Oct 2018) |
| JCP | J. C. Penney Company | 2020-05-15 | Chapter 11 (May 2020) |
| BBBY | Bed Bath & Beyond | 2023-04-23 | Chapter 11 (Apr 2023) |
| WMT | Walmart | — | Survivor |
| COST | Costco Wholesale | — | Survivor |
| HD | Home Depot | — | Survivor |
| TJX | TJX Companies | — | Survivor |
| AMZN | Amazon.com | — | Survivor |
Complete record (10 rows). Raw dataset: https://historyofmarket.com/api/consumer/extinction.json
Data & Source
GET /api/consumer/extinction.json — Canonical dataset endpoint.
Exchange closing prices · Company filings · Robert Shiller · FRED · NBER.
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