Allied Healthcare Products manufactures a range of respiratory products used in the health care industry. Co.'s product lines consist of: respiratory care products, which include respiratory care/anesthesia products and home respiratory care products; medical gas equipment, which include medical gas system construction products, regulation devices, disposable oxygen cylinders, portable suction equipment; and emergency medical products, which include respiratory/resuscitation and trauma and patient handling products. Co.'s products are marketed to hospitals, hospital equipment dealers, hospital construction contractors, home health care dealers, emergency medical products dealers and others. We show 18 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our AHPI shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute AHPI market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing AHPI market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing AHPI'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 AHPI versus a peer is one thing; comparing
AHPI 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 AHPI can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching AHPI by allowing them to research the AHPI market cap history. |
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