Broadcom Inc. is a global technology company that designs, develops, and supplies a broad range of semiconductor, enterprise software and security solutions. Co. operates through two segments: semiconductor solutions and infrastructure software. Co.'s semiconductor solutions segment includes all of its product lines and intellectual property (IP) licensing. It provides semiconductor solutions for managing the movement of data in data center, service provider and enterprise networking applications. Its infrastructure software segment includes its mainframe, distributed and cyber security solutions, and its fiber channel storage area networking (FC SAN) business. We show 26 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our AVGO shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute AVGO market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing Broadcom market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing Broadcom'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 Broadcom versus a peer is one thing; comparing
Broadcom 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 Broadcom can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching Broadcom by allowing them to research the Broadcom market cap history. |
Free AVGO Email Alerts:
Video: The Importance of Market Cap
