Biggest One Day Drops of S&P 500 Members

JP Morgan's $2 per share take over of Bear Stearns is a 93% discount from Bear's closing price of $30 on Friday and 99% of its 52 week high. On the open, Bear is down 87%. Prior to today, the biggest one day loss of current S&P members was 75% for Sealed Air Corp in 1989.

Here are the biggest 1 day percentage drops of the S&P 500 constituents.

Biggest 1 Day Drops of S&P 500 Constituents

Company	Symbol	Close on 3/14	Date of Biggest Drop	Percent	Points
Sealed Air	SEE	24.66	5/12/1989	-75.4	-4.8
Kroger	KR	24.29	10/31/1988	-68.5	-5.2
Dynegy	DYN	8.11	7/23/2002	-63.6	-2.2
Williams Cos	WMB	33.7	7/22/2002	-61.0	-3.2
Citrix Systems	CTXS	30.8	2/27/1997	-59.5	-2.6
ETrade	ETFC	3.63	11/12/2007	-58.7	-5.0
Qwest	Q	4.62	6/26/2002	-57.3	-2.4
MEMC Electronic Mats	WFR	81.05	8/10/2001	-53.8	-2.1
EDS	EDS	16.17	9/19/2002	-52.8	-19.3
Ambac Fin	ABK	6.22	1/17/2008	-51.9	-6.7
Apple	AAPL	126.61	9/29/2000	-51.9	-13.9