Broadcom is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. designs, develops and supplies of a range of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. Co. develops semiconductor devices with a focus on digital and mixed signal complementary metal oxide semiconductor based devices and analog III-V based products. Co.'s infrastructure software solutions enable customers to plan, develop, automate, manage and secure applications across mainframe, distributed, mobile and cloud platforms. Co. provides a cyber security solutions portfolio, including endpoint, network, information and identity security solutions, and provides mission critical fibre channel storage area networking products. We show 12 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our AVGO shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute AVGO market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing AVGO market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing AVGO'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 AVGO versus a peer is one thing; comparing
AVGO 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 AVGO can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching AVGO by allowing them to research the AVGO market cap history. |
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