CSX Corp. is a transportation company. Co. provides rail-based freight transportation services, including traditional rail service, the transport of intermodal containers and trailers, as well as other transportation services, such as rail-to-truck transfers and bulk commodity operations. It provides rail, intermodal and rail-to-truck transload services and solutions to customers across a broad array of markets, including energy, industrial, construction, agricultural, and consumer products. We show 63 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our CSX shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute CSX market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing CSX market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing CSX'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 CSX versus a peer is one thing; comparing
CSX 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 CSX can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching CSX by allowing them to research the CSX market cap history. |
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