Casella Waste Systems is a solid waste services company. Co. provides resource management personnel and services, primarily in the areas of solid waste collection and disposal, transfer, recycling and organics services. Co. provides solid waste services in Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts, Maine and Pennsylvania. Co. manages its solid waste operations on a geographic basis through its regional operating segments, the Eastern and Western regions, each of which provides a range of solid waste services, and its recycling and commodity brokerage operations along with its organics services and primary account and industrial services through its Resource Solutions segment. We show 48 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our CWST shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute CWST market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing CWST market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing CWST'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 CWST versus a peer is one thing; comparing
CWST 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 CWST can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching CWST by allowing them to research the CWST market cap history. |
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