Briggs & Stratton is a producer of gasoline engines for outdoor power equipment, and is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of power generation, pressure washer, lawn and garden, turf care and job site products through its Briggs & Stratton®, Simplicity®, Snapper®, Ferris®, Vanguard®, Allmand®, Billy Goat®, Hurricane®, Murray®, Branco® and Victa® brands. Co. conducts its operations in two reportable segments: Engines, which manufactures four-cycle aluminum alloy gasoline engines; and Products, which includes lawn and garden power equipment, turf care products, portable and standby generators, pressure washers, snow throwers, and job site products. We show 42 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our BGG shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute BGG market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing BGG market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing BGG'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 BGG versus a peer is one thing; comparing
BGG 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 BGG can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching BGG by allowing them to research the BGG market cap history. |
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