Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT). Co.'s portfolio consists of upscale hotels and upper upscale full-service hotels. Co. owns its lodging investments and conducts its business through Ashford Hospitality Limited Partnership (Ashford Trust OP). Co.'s hotel properties are primarily branded under the brands of Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott and Intercontinental Hotel Group. Co. operates through one segment: direct hotel investments. It has a portfolio consisting of 75 consolidated operating hotel properties, which represent 17,931 total rooms. It owns a 15.1 % ownership in OpenKey, Inc. We show 68 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our AHT shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute AHT market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing AHT market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing AHT'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 AHT versus a peer is one thing; comparing
AHT 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 AHT can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching AHT by allowing them to research the AHT market cap history. |
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