Big Lots, through its subsidiaries, is a home discount retailer. Co.'s merchandise categories are: Food, which includes beverage and grocery, specialty foods and pet departments; Consumables, which includes health, beauty and cosmetics departments; Soft Home, which includes home decor, frames, bedding and bath departments; Hard Home, which includes small appliances, food preparation, stationery, home maintenance, and home organization departments; Furniture, which includes upholstery and mattress departments; Seasonal, which includes lawn and garden and other holiday departments; Apparel, Electronics, and Other department, which includes apparel, electronics and jewelry departments. We show 57 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our BIG shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute BIG market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing BIG market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing BIG'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 BIG versus a peer is one thing; comparing
BIG 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 BIG can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching BIG by allowing them to research the BIG market cap history. |
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