AdaptHealth is engaged in providing patient-centric and healthcare-at-home solutions including home medical equipment (HME), medical supplies, and related services. Co. focuses primarily on providing sleep therapy equipment, supplies and related services to individuals suffering from obstructive sleep apnea, medical devices and supplies to patients for the treatment of diabetes, HME to patients discharged from acute care and other facilities, oxygen and related chronic therapy services in the home, and supplies on behalf of chronically ill patients with wound care, urological, incontinence, ostomy and nutritional supply needs. Co. services beneficiaries of Medicare and commercial payors. We show 18 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our AHCO shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute AHCO market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing AHCO market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing AHCO'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 AHCO versus a peer is one thing; comparing
AHCO 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 AHCO can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching AHCO by allowing them to research the AHCO market cap history. |
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