Arch Capital Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. provides insurance, reinsurance and mortgage insurance. Co.'s underwriting segments are: insurance, which includes construction and national accounts, excess and surplus casualty, lenders products, professional lines, programs, and property, energy, marine and aviation; reinsurance, which includes casualty, marine and aviation, other specialty, property catastrophe, and property excluding property catastrophe; and mortgage, which includes its U.S. primary mortgage insurance, U.S. credit risk transfer that are mainly with government sponsored enterprises and international mortgage insurance and reinsurance operations. We show 54 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our ACGL shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute ACGL market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing ACGL market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing ACGL'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 ACGL versus a peer is one thing; comparing
ACGL 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 ACGL can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching ACGL by allowing them to research the ACGL market cap history. |
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