Amazon.com, Inc. provides a range of products and services to customers. The products offered through its stores include merchandise and content it has purchased for resale and products offered by third-party sellers. Co.'s segments include North America, International and Amazon Web Services (AWS). It serves consumers through its online and physical stores and focuses on selection, price, and convenience. Customers access its offerings through its Websites, mobile apps, Alexa, devices, streaming, and physically visiting its stores. It manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle, Fire tablet, Fire TV, Echo, Ring, Blink, and eero, and it develops and produces media content. We show 61 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our AMZN shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute AMZN market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing Amazon.com market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing Amazon.com'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 Amazon.com versus a peer is one thing; comparing
Amazon.com 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 Amazon.com can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching Amazon.com by allowing them to research the Amazon.com market cap history. |
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