Capital One Financial is a financial services holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. provides an array of financial products and services. Co. has three primary business segments: Credit Card, which consists of Co.'s domestic consumer and small business card lending, and international card businesses in Canada and the U.K.; Consumer Banking, which consists of Co.'s deposit gathering and lending activities for consumers and small businesses, and national auto lending; and Commercial Banking, which consists of Co.'s lending, deposit gathering, capital markets and treasury management services to commercial real estate and commercial and industrial customers. We show 54 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our COF shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute COF market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing COF market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing COF'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 COF versus a peer is one thing; comparing
COF 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 COF can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching COF by allowing them to research the COF market cap history. |
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