BlackRock Finance, Inc., formerly BlackRock, Inc., is an investment management company. It provides a range of investment management and technology services to institutional and retail clients. Its diverse platform of alpha-seeking active, index and cash management investment strategies across asset classes enables the Co. to tailor investment outcomes and asset allocation solutions for clients. Its product offerings include single- and multi-asset portfolios investing in equities, fixed income, alternatives, and money market instruments. We show 60 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our BLK shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute BLK market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing BLK market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing BLK'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 BLK versus a peer is one thing; comparing
BLK 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 BLK can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching BLK by allowing them to research the BLK market cap history. |
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