BCE is a telecommunications and media company providing wireless, wireline, Internet and television (TV) services to residential, business and wholesale customers. Co. reports in three segments: Bell Wireless, Bell Wireline and Bell Media. Bell Wireless provides wireless voice and data communications products. Bell Wireline provides data, including Internet access and Internet protocol television, local telephone, long distance, as well as other communications services and products. Bell Media provides conventional TV, other TV, pay TV, streaming services, digital media services, radio broadcasting services and out-of-home advertising services to customers nationally across Canada. We show 12 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our BCE shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute BCE market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing BCE market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing BCE'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 BCE versus a peer is one thing; comparing
BCE 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 BCE can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching BCE by allowing them to research the BCE market cap history. |
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