Compass Minerals International is a holding company. Through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Co. is a provider of minerals focused on delivering where and when it matters. Co.'s reportable segments are: Salt, which produces, markets and sells salt (sodium chloride) and magnesium chloride in North America and sodium chloride in the U.K.; and Plant Nutrition, which produces and markets sulfate of potash products in various grades to distributors and retailers of crop inputs, as well as growers and for industrial uses under the trade name Protassium+. We show 49 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our CMP shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute CMP market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing CMP market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing CMP'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 CMP versus a peer is one thing; comparing
CMP 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 CMP can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching CMP by allowing them to research the CMP market cap history. |
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