Bunge is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is an agribusiness and food company. Co.'s segments include: Agribusiness, which is principally involved in the purchase, storage, transportation, processing and sale of agricultural commodities and commodity products; Refined and Specialty Oils, which includes businesses that sell vegetable oils and fats, including cooking oils, shortenings, and specialty ingredients; Milling, which includes businesses that sell wheat flours, bakery mixes and corn-based products; and Sugar and Bioenergy, which primarily comprises its interest in the BP Bunge Bioenergia joint venture formed with BP p.l.c. We show 56 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our BG shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute BG market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing BG market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing BG'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 BG versus a peer is one thing; comparing
BG 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 BG can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching BG by allowing them to research the BG market cap history. |
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