W. R. Berkley Corporation is an insurance holding company. Co. operates through two segments of the property casualty insurance business. Its Insurance segment underwrites predominantly commercial insurance business, including excess and surplus lines, admitted lines and specialty personal lines throughout the U.S., as well as insurance business in Asia, Australia, Canada, Continental Europe, Mexico, Scandinavia, South America and the United Kingdom. Its Insurance segment consists of business units, including Acadia Insurance, Admiral Insurance, Berkley Accident and Health, Berkley Agribusiness and others. We show 62 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our WRB shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute WRB market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing Berkley market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing Berkley'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 Berkley versus a peer is one thing; comparing
Berkley 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 Berkley can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching Berkley by allowing them to research the Berkley market cap history. |
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