Activision Blizzard is a developer and publisher of interactive entertainment content and services. Co. develops and distributes content and services on video game consoles, personal computers, and mobile devices. Co. also operates esports leagues and provides digital advertising within its content. Co.'s segments include: Activision Publishing, Inc. and Blizzard Entertainment, Inc, which both deliver content through full-game and in-game sales, and license software to third-party or related-party companies that distribute their products; and King Digital Entertainment, which delivers content primarily through in-game sales and in-game advertising on the mobile platform. We show 47 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our ATVI shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute ATVI market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing ATVI market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing ATVI'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 ATVI versus a peer is one thing; comparing
ATVI 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 ATVI can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching ATVI by allowing them to research the ATVI market cap history. |
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