ABIOMED is a provider of medical devices that provide circulatory support and oxygenation. Co.'s existing products include: Impella 2.5®, which is a percutaneous heart pump with a motor and sensors; Impella CP®, which is primarily used by either interventional cardiologists to support patients in the cath lab or by cardiac surgeons in the heart surgery suite; Impella 5.0® and Impella LD®, which are percutaneous heart pumps with motors and sensors for use primarily in the heart surgery suite; Impella 5.5®, which is designed to be a percutaneous heart pump with motors and sensors; and Abiomed Breethe OXY-1 System, which is a portable external respiratory assistance device. We show 51 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our ABMD shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute ABMD market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing ABMD market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing ABMD's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of ABMD versus a peer is one thing; comparing
ABMD market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like ABMD can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching ABMD by allowing them to research the ABMD market cap history. |