Colgate-Palmolive Co. manufactures a range of products for the personal and home care markets. It operates in two product segments: Oral, Personal and Home Care; and Pet Nutrition. The Oral, Personal and Home Care product segment is managed geographically in five segments, such as North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Africa/Eurasia, all of which sell primarily to a variety of traditional and e-commerce retailers, wholesalers, distributors, dentists and skin health professionals. We show 65 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our CL shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute CL market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing CL market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing CL'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 CL versus a peer is one thing; comparing
CL 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 CL can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching CL by allowing them to research the CL market cap history. |
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